Weight gain within the normal range increases risk of chronic kidney disease
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[B]Even lean individuals who gain weight are at risk[/B] Healthy individuals who gain weight, even to a weight still considered normal, are at risk for developing chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in ...
System constraints forcing Canadian physicians to become medical brokers in prioritizing
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[B]Hip/knee replacement candidates[/B] Health-care system constraints combined with a lack of a uniform referral process are leaving Ontario physicians brokering which patients are in greatest need of hip and knee replacement, a s ...
Network designed to help health care professionals
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European researchers have developed a computer system designed to give health care professionals access to a broader range of medical information.
Flexible design in airports essential for courting low-cost airlines
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The leading low-cost airlines with a preference for small, inexpensive airports are now the largest airlines in the United States and Europe, according to an MIT expert on airport design and operations, who said that airport ...
Allergy expert has advice for flood victims
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As if the emotional and financial impact of flood damage isn't bad enough, floodwaters can also bring health problems. H. James Wedner, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Washington ...
New test makes cheating with drugs in sports easier to detect
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Jun 19, 2008 |
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[B]Research news from Journal of Mass Spectrometry[/B] A new mass spectrometry test can help sports anti-drug doping officials to detect whether an athlete has used drugs that boost naturally occurring steroid levels. The ...
High hormone levels in seabird chicks prepare them to kill their siblings
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The Nazca booby, a Galápagos Island seabird, emerges from its shell ready to kill its brother or sister. Wake Forest University biologists and their colleagues have linked the murderous behavior to high levels ...
Risk factors for sudden death for adult muscular dystrophy identified
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The largest assessment of people with adult muscular dystrophy has identified risk factors that can lead to sudden death for individuals with the most common form of this disease. The results of the multicenter study, led ...
European Science Foundation aims to strengthen 'regenerative medicine'
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14 Member Organisations of the European Science Foundation have launched a key initiative to keep Europe at the forefront of regenerative medicine; broadly defined as the development of stem cell therapies to restore lost, ...
Perspective: Policies must keep pace with genetic progress
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Enactment of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 is a boon to individual patients and for genetic research, write Kathy Hudson, M.K. Holohan, and Francis Collins in the June 19 issue of the New En ...
New findings on immune system in amphibians
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Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes produce proteins that are crucial in fighting pathogen assault. Researchers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ...
Canada-India RFID project looks to improve traffic flow, reduce pollution
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RFID technology may provide the key to better traffic management and improved pollution control in Canada, India and worldwide.
Failure to take seizure drugs linked to increased risk of death
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People with epilepsy who fail to take their seizure medication regularly could be as much as three times more likely to die, according to a study published in the June 18, 2008, online issue of Neurology, the medical journa ...
New research on mutation in yeast can enhance understanding of human diseases
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[B]Work from UNH Hubbard Center, Indiana University, others enhances understanding of genetics in human diseases[/B] Yeast, a model organism heavily relied upon for studying basic biological processes as they relate to ...
Yale researchers discover Legionnaire microbe's tricks
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Yale University researchers have shed new light how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires' disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients.
