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Steroid injections may slow diabetes-related eye disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have found that injecting a corticosteroid, triamcinolone, directly into the eye may slow the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, a complication ...


Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say

Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (18) | comments 34

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is causing habitats to move across the landscape. Can the creatures living there keep up? If they can't, some species may die out, researchers say.


Scientists map speed of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (31) | comments 39

New study finds that the average ecosystem will need to shift about a quarter mile per year to keep pace with global climate change.


High risk of colorectal, endometrial and Lynch syndrome cancers for MSH6 mutation carriers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People carrying the germ-line MSH6 mutation are at high risk by age 80 years for colorectal and endometrial cancers and any cancer associated with Lynch syndrome, according to a new study published online December 22 in the ...


Volunteer program provides quality low-risk operative care to patients in need

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that a volunteer program providing low-risk outpatient surgical procedures can deliver safe and effective health care t ...


Gene for devastating kidney disease discovered

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital have identified an important genetic cause of a devastating kidney disease that is the second leading cause of kidney failure in ...


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Titan's lakes could be explored by boat

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- If a suggestion to be made to NASA comes to fruition, vast lakes thought to be filled with liquid hydrocarbons near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, may one day be explored by boat.


Older adults may have a higher risk of complications and death after abdominal surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The risk of complications and early death after commonly performed abdominal surgical procedures appears to be higher among older adults, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Surgery.


Trends in melanoma incidence and stage at diagnosis vary by racial and ethnic group

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

White and Hispanic individuals are being diagnosed with melanoma more frequently in recent years, whereas Hispanic and black patients continue to have advanced skin cancer at diagnosis, according to a report in the December ...


Drug for Multiple Myeloma Demonstrated to Significantly Extend Disease-Free Survival

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Initial results from a large, randomized clinical trial for patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, showed that patients who received the oral drug lenalidomide (Revlimid, also ...


Final launch of Ariane 5 GS completes busy year

Final launch of Ariane 5 GS completes busy year

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, an Ariane 5 GS launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar ...


Organic flash memory developed

Organic flash memory developed

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 3 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a non-volatile memory that has the same basic structure as a flash memory but is made from cheap, flexible, organic materials.


Myopia appears to have become more common

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Myopia (nearsightedness) may have been more common in Americans from 1999 to 2004 than it was 30 years ago, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.


National survey tracks rates of common mental disorders among American youth

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Only about half of American children and teenagers who have certain mental disorders receive professional services, according to a nationally representative survey funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health ...


Many dialysis patients undergoing PCI receive improper medication, with higher risk of bleeding

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Approximately 20 percent of dialysis patients undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedure such as angioplasty) are given an antithrombotic medication they should not receive, which may increase their risk ...