Exercise helps patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Counseling patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) on how to increase physical activity leads to health benefits that are independent of changes in weight. These findings are in a new study in the July issue ...
FDA reviewing safety of Sanofi's Lantus insulin
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it is reviewing data on the safety of Lantus, a synthetic insulin made by Sanofi-Aventis SA.
FDA requires Chantix, Zyban to have warning
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration will require two smoking-cessation drugs, Chantix and Zyban, to carry the agency's strongest safety warning over side effects including depression and suicidal thoughts.
Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century?
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(AP) -- Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where Michael Jackson was brought and later pronounced dead.
Newly appreciated membrane estrogen receptor important therapeutic target for breast cancer
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New research at Rhode Island Hospital has uncovered the biological effects of a novel membrane estrogen receptor, a finding that has potential implications for hormonal therapy for breast cancer. The study is published in ...
Embedded electronics -- cars get cooperative
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a groundbreaking middleware platform that could lead to thousands of new applications in a range of industries. Beginning with in-car electronics, the platform ...
Peer Behavior, Not Communication Overload, Determines Mobile Device Use in Meetings, Study Shows
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Organizational norms and social cues, not communication overload, are the strongest predictors of whether individuals use their laptops or smart phones to electronically multitask during a meeting, according ...
Ill. cancer researcher wins $500K genetics prize
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(AP) -- An 84-year-old University of Chicago researcher has won a half-million-dollar genetics prize for her pioneering work in showing that cancer is a genetic disease.
NASA: Fuel test a success, shuttle launch day set
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- To NASA's relief, a fueling test on space shuttle Endeavour uncovered no hydrogen gas leaks Wednesday and paved the way for another launch attempt late next week for the delayed mission.
New treatment significantly slows progression of eye damage in persons with type 1 diabetes
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University of Minnesota Medical School researcher Michael Mauer, M.D., has found a treatment that significantly slows the progression of eye injury in people with type 1 diabetes, a common complication caused by this disease. ...
WHO working on formulas to model swine flu spread
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(AP) -- The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is working to mathematically model the spread of swine flu in an attempt to better understand how the outbreak developed from a handful of cases to a global epidemic ...
Microsoft posts modest search gains with Bing
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New search engine Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the search market in the United States in June but, still lags behind Yahoo! and Google, a Web analytics firm reported Wednesday.
CDC: Private health care coverage at 50-year-low
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(AP) -- The percentage of Americans who don't have private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports. About 65 percent of non-elderly Americans had private insurance in ...
New discovery to aid in diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with scientists at the University of Louisville and the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France, have identified the target antigen PLA2R ...
Cost-effectiveness of HPV vaccination in the Netherlands
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Even under favorable assumptions, including lifelong protection against 70% of all cervical cancers and no side effects, vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is not cost-effective in the Netherlands, according ...
