Oral osteoporosis meds appear to reduce the risk of jaw degradation
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BOSTON, Mass. (Jan. 2, 2008) — Athanasios Zavras began receiving messages from distraught patients in 2005 after case reports linked oral osteoporosis meds to bone death in the jaw. A number of doctors and dentists advised ...
Use of opioids for pain in ERs on the rise, but racial differences in use still exist
Medicine & Health / Medications
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In the last 15 years, use of opioid medications to treat patients with pain-related emergency department visits has improved although white patients were more likely to receive opioids than patients of a different race/ethnicity, ...
Obesity linked to decreased seatbelt use
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Obese people are less likely to use their seatbelts than the rest of the population, adding to the public health risks associated with this rapidly growing problem.
Ashkenazi ovarian cancer patients with BRCA mutations live longer than those with normal gene
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Israeli investigators have found that Ashkenazi Jewish women with ovarian cancer who have mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes lived significantly longer than Ashkenazi Jewish ovarian cancer patients without these mutations. ...
MRI techniques evolving towards better assessment of liver fibrosis
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[B]They could potentially replace liver biopsy[/B] MRI imagery is emerging as a non-invasive way to determine the existence and extent of hepatic fibrosis. It could eventually help the development of pharmacologic strategies to ...
Multiple species of bacteria may cause trachoma: Implications for treatment
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In a study published in this week’s PLoS Medicine, researchers have found that more than one species of bacteria may be causing the infectious eye disease trachoma. Six million people – most of whom live in crowded and unhygienic ...
How actin networks are actin'
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Dynamic networks of growing actin filaments are critical for many cellular processes, including cell migration, intracellular transport, and the recovery of proteins from the cell surface. In this week’s issue of the open-access ...
