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Old fashioned bartering in a high tech world

Technology / Internet

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

I'm curious to see how something like this works out. TheSmarterBarter.com is launching a new Web-based bartering system that pledges to help people who want to trade things find other like-minded people.





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Vitamins C and E and beta carotene again fail to reduce cancer risk in randomized controlled trial

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 31, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women who took beta carotene or vitamin C or E or a combination of the supplements had a similar risk of cancer as women who did not take the supplements, according to data from a randomized controlled trial in the December ...


Atrial fibrillation linked to increased hospitalization in heart failure patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with atrial fibrillation, common in those with advanced chronic heart failure, have an increased risk of hospitalization due to heart failure, according to new research from researchers at the University of Alabama ...


Scientists to test gammaglobulin treatment for Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from the Memory and Cognition Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center will begin testing an intriguing new approach to slowing down the progression of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) using Intravenous Immune ...


Against expectations, genetic variation does not alter asthma treatment response

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies have suggested that asthma patients with a specific genetic variation might not respond as well to certain treatments as those with a different variation. But a new study in this week's edition of ...


ACC/AHA revised guidelines for the perioperative use of beta blockers to minimize cardiac risk

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cardiac complications around the time of noncardiac surgery are relatively common and can be serious. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) today release a Focused Update to the ...


Heart rate-lowering drug improves exercise capacity in patients with stable angina

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Results from a late-breaking clinical trial, presented at the 2008 Canadian Cardiology Congress (CCC) in Toronto, show for the first time that combining the pure heart rate reduction medication ivabradine to current treatments ...


Interferon alpha can delay full onset of type I diabetes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A low dose of oral interferon alpha shows promise in preserving beta cell function for patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, or juvenile diabetes, according to researchers at The University of Texas Medical School ...


New asthma research opposes current drug treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just when the Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering the use of stimulants to treat asthma, a new research study offers further evidence to support a University of Houston professor's theory that an opposite approach ...


Antioxidants not associated with increased melanoma risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antioxidant supplements do not appear to be associated with an increased risk of melanoma, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Dermatology.


Drug treatment for Marfan syndrome looks promising

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A small study in 18 pattients assessing the effectiveness of the drug losartan for treating Marfan syndrome in children has yielded encouraging results. Reporting in the June 26 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Johns ...



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