Cardiologists find physical exams just as good for assessing heart failure
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Patient history and physical examination, traditionally the cornerstone diagnostic tool for medical care, may still be among the most accurate and cost-efficient methods to assess patients with congestive heart failure, UT ...
Higher urinary levels of commonly used chemical, BPA, linked with cardiovascular disease, diabetes
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Higher levels of urinary Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound commonly used in plastic packaging for food and beverages, is associated with cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and liver-enzyme abnormalities, according ...
Researchers suppress 'hunger hormone'
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Johns Hopkins scientists report success in significantly suppressing levels of the "hunger hormone" ghrelin in pigs using a minimally invasive means of chemically vaporizing the main vessel carrying blood to the top section, ...
Blanket ban on bushmeat could be disastrous for forest dwellers in Central Africa, says new report
Sep 16, 2008 |
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A new report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB) and partners warns that an upsurge in hunting bushmeat—including mammals, ...
Capturing replication strategies used by SARS viruses in their bid to spread
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Sep 16, 2008 |
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Just over five years ago, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-coronavirus killed over 750 people. SARS (corona)virus, a positive-stranded RNA virus, replicates in the cytoplasm of host cells, attaching ...
3-D MRI technique helps radiologists detect high-risk carotid disease
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Canadian researchers have used three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (3-D MRI) to accurately detect bleeding within the walls of diseased carotid arteries, a condition that may lead to a stroke. The results of the ...
Older problem gamblers may face greater suicide risk than younger counterparts, study finds
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Sep 16, 2008 |
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Compared to their younger counterparts, older problem gamblers who ask casinos to bar them from returning are three to four times more likely to do so because they fear they will kill themselves if they don't stop betting, ...
Child witnesses -- how to improve their performance
Sep 16, 2008 |
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A study at the University of Leicester into how to improve child and young adult witnesses' evidence has looked at several issues that affect witnesses' accuracy.
Steroids not as effective in obese asthma patients
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Researchers at National Jewish Health have shown that glucocorticoids, the primary controller medication for asthma, are 40 percent less effective in overweight and obese asthma patients than in those of normal weight. The ...
Genetic research using human samples requires new types of informed consent
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Genetic studies involving the long term storage and study of human samples hold great promise for medical research—but they also pose new threats to individuals such as uninsurability, unemployability, and discrimination, ...
Sowing a future for peas
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New research from the John Innes Centre and the Central Science Laboratory could help breeders to develop pea varieties able to withstand drought stress and climate change. The research also shows that the ...
Small numbers of patients with drug-resistant TB may account for high proportion of new infections
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Inadequate treatment of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis (TB) can leave patients highly infectious, and small numbers of such patients may drive transmission of the disease in the very health care facilities intended to ...
Determining the structure of nuclear receptor has implications for a host of diseases
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In a study published this week in PLoS Biology, Eric Xu and colleagues have determined the molecular structure of a nuclear receptor, which regulates the expression of specific genes within cells, that may serve as a drug ...
New results help predict treatment response in colorectal cancer
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Genetic testing can identify a group of patients with advanced colorectal cancer who are likely to survive on average twice as long if treated with the drug cetuximab, late breaking results show.
Stem cells may solve mystery of early pregnancy breast cancer protection
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The answer to why an early pregnancy seems to protect against breast cancer could rest with a decrease in stem cells found after animals have given birth, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears ...
