Older age doesn't affect survival after bone marrow transplant
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Age alone should not determine whether an older patient with acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome receives a blood stem cell transplant from a matched donor, researchers of the Center for International Blood ...
Next Generation Counterterrorism and Military Wipe Developed
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly-developed decontamination wipe designed by researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University has proven itself the best for cleaning up chemical warfare ...
New system can improve video-sharing Web sites like YouTube
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As video sharing websites like YouTube continue to grow in popularity, so do challenges around proper labeling of videos and monitoring for copyright infractions.
Marital problems lead to poorer outcomes for breast cancer patients
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Breast cancer patients who have a poor relationship with their spouse may face a more difficult road to recovery than would other women, according to a new study.
Confusing risk information may lead breast cancer patients to make poor treatment choices
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A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that a tool commonly used by doctors to estimate the risk of a woman's breast cancer returning after surgery is not very effective ...
Program to deter youth alcohol use also reduces conduct problems, study finds
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A University of Georgia program designed to reduce alcohol use, drug use and risky sexual behavior in African-American youth also reduces the likelihood of engaging in conduct problems by up to 74 percent two years later, ...
Race a factor in receiving transplant treatment for bone marrow cancer but does not affect outcomes
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A new study by researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center Milwaukee, has found that African Americans and whites have identical survival rates after undergoing autologous (self donor) bone marrow transplant ...
New technique enables faster genetic diagnosis for hereditary diseases
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VIB researchers (Belgium) connected to the University of Antwerp have developed a new method that enables them to track down the cause of hereditary diseases more quickly and efficiently. By means of this technique, genetic ...
Data doesn't back websites' stem-cell claims, says researcher
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stem-cell therapy is an exciting and promising field, but the director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta, Tim Caulfield, wants people to be aware that these treatments aren't ready.
Stress relief: Lab mice that exercise control may be more normal
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Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University scientists found that mice raised in cages may relieve stress with behaviors associated with mice in the wild. And for researchers using lab mice, this may mean that by allowing ...
Contraceptive methods shape women's sexual pleasure and satisfaction
Dec 08, 2008 |
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New data from The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University demonstrate that many women think condoms undermine sexual pleasure, but those who use both hormonal contraception and condoms report higher overall sexual satisfaction.
Electronic prescribing system may encourage physicians to choose lower-cost drugs
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Clinicians using an electronic prescribing system appear more likely to prescribe lower-cost medications, reducing drug spending, according to a report in the December 8/22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the ...
Second-generation CML drugs show promise as frontline therapy
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Two drugs approved as fallback therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) appear to outperform historical benchmarks of the frontline medication when used as a first treatment in separate clinical trials, researchers ...
Occurrence of major eye disease projected to increase among patients with diabetes
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Based on projected increases in the prevalence of diabetes, the number of people with diabetes-related retinal disease, with glaucoma and with cataracts is estimated to increase significantly by 2050, according to a report ...
Interactive gene 'networks' may predict if leukemia is aggressive or slow-growing
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Rather than testing for individual marker genes or proteins, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have evidence that groups, or networks, of interactive genes ...
