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How to avoid heart disease: brush your teeth, say scientists

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (37) | comments 7

Bad teeth, bleeding gums and poor dental hygiene can end up causing heart disease, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.





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Doctors create gum that helps promote tooth health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

With the help of a gum chomping machine and years of careful chemistry, University of Kentucky researchers have developed a chewing gum that can help replace toothpaste and a toothbrush, thus improving the health of soldiers ...


Study: Kidney angioplasty brings risks, no benefit

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The pricey procedure is no more effective and ...


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Many computer users hesitate to ride the Wave

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Google's latest brainchild, Google Wave, is all the rage among bleeding-edge technology enthusiasts. But corporate information technology executives say that while they're intrigued by Wave -- a replacement ...


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New handbook for Google, Droid users

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box.


New mechanism explains how the body prevents formation of blood vessels

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with colleagues in Sweden and abroad, have identified an entirely new mechanism by which a specific protein in the body inhibits formation of new blood vessels. Inhibiting ...


When seconds count: Interventional radiology treatment for pulmonary embolism saves lives

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis -- an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted image-guided drug delivery with specially designed catheters to dissolve dangerous blood clots in the ...


Popular anti-platelet therapy reduces risk of cardiovascular events in men and women

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study, published in the November 17, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, adds to a growing body of research seeking to evaluate and understand possible sex differences associated with a ...


Scanning invisible damage of PTSD, brain blasts

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


For young boys with cancer, testicular tissue banking may be option to preserve fertility

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For parents of children with cancer, the hopeful news is that pediatric survival rates have steadily improved for decades. Among the bad news—treatments that enable survival often cause infertility.


Proton therapy is well-tolerated in prostate cancer patients

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

Proton beam therapy can be safely delivered to men with prostate cancer and has minimal urinary and rectal side effects, according to a study presented November 2, 2009, at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 51st ...



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