Complications early in pregnancy or in previous pregnancies adversely affect existing or subsequent pregnancies

Medicine & Health / Health

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Complications in early pregnancy or in previous pregnancies can predict the likelihood of further problems in current or subsequent pregnancies, according to research carried out by an international group of experts.


Ozone depletes oil seed rape productivity

Biology / Plants & Animals

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With rising ozone levels scientists have found that high ozone conditions cause a 30 percent decrease in yield and an increase in the concentration of a group of compounds with toxic effects to livestock, but anticarcinogenic ...


FDA weighs options to reduce painkiller overdoses (AP)

FDA weighs options to reduce painkiller overdoses

Medicine & Health / Medications

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(AP) -- Tylenol, Excedrin, NyQuil. These household brands and others have come to symbolize safe, convenient relief from the aches and pains of everyday life. But this week the Food and Drug Administration ...


Intestinal cells surprisingly active in pursuit of nutrition and defense

Intestinal cells surprisingly active in pursuit of nutrition and defense

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Every cell lining the small intestine bristles with thousands of tightly packed microvilli that project into the gut lumen, forming a brush border that absorbs nutrients and protects the body from intestinal ...


Ultrasensitive detector promises improved treatment of viral respiratory infections

Ultrasensitive detector promises improved treatment of viral respiratory infections

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Vanderbilt chemist and a biomedical engineer have teamed up to develop a respiratory virus detector that is sensitive enough to detect an infection at an early stage, takes only a few minutes ...


Doctors say more ovary transplants possible

Medicine & Health / Research

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(AP) -- Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced Monday.


A potent and selective anti-tumor agent on human gastric cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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A research article to be published on June 21, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question. The research team led by Professor Yan Li from Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University studied the gr ...


Study could help target new pancreatitis treatments

Medicine & Health / Research

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Pancreatitis is often a fatal condition, in which the pancreas digests itself and surrounding tissue. Scientists have previously found that alcohol can trigger the condition by combining with fatty acids in the pancreas, ...


First riser-drilling research operations undertaken in Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Deepsea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU has resumed IODP drilling operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the Kii Peninsula of Japan. The scientific drilling expedition's first target is located in water depths of 2,054 ...


Microproteinuria: Indicator to monitor CNI-related nephrotoxicity in liver transplant recipients?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Deterioration of renal function with CNI therapy has been widely reported in liver transplant recipients. Microproteinuria has been used to monitor the early changes of nephropathy in renal disease or cardiovascular events. ...


New tool finds best heart disease and stroke treatments for patients with diabetes

Medicine & Health / Other

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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Mayo Clinic have developed a computer model that medical doctors can use to determine the best time to begin using statin therapy in diabetes patients to help prevent heart ...


From Columbine to Dawson: study on psychological impact of mass shootings

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Less than two percent of the community were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress, and seven percent report post-traumatic stress symptoms, as a result of the shooting at Dawson College on September 13, 2006.


Second gene linked to familial testicular cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Specific variations or mutations in a particular can gene raise a man's risk of familial, or inherited, testicular germ-cell cancer, the most common form of this disease, according to new research by scientists at the National ...


Who goes abroad for fertility treatment and why?

Medicine & Health / Other

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A substantial number of European patients travel to other countries for fertility treatment, both because they think that they will receive better quality care abroad and in order to undergo procedures that are banned in ...


Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Biology / Ecology

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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's legacy will live on with a new University of Central Florida study aimed at saving the endangered bunnies named after him.




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