News tagged with blood fluke
Gene map aims to combat blood flukes
Jun 30, 2009 |
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The first microsatellite-based genetic linkage map has been published for Schistosoma mansoni, a blood fluke that is known to infect over 90 million people in Africa, the Middle East and the New World. Researchers writin ...
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Stress, heart disease not exclusive to football coaches
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's impossible to know, unless you're Urban Meyer or one of his doctors, what exactly caused the two-time college football championship winner to see-saw decisions about his prestigious professional career ...
South African doctor sees drug-resistant HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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(AP) -- It's 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts - new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have turned against them.
Study Puts Bariatric Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes to the Test
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-disciplinary team of Penn researchers, including diabetes, weight loss and bariatric surgery experts, are conducting a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine if bariatric ...
Pharmacists improve care of diabetics while cutting costs, research shows
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The role of pharmacists hasn't received much attention in the debate on the cost of health care. But national and regional studies show that when pharmacists directly participate in patient care, they significantly reduce ...
Blood test that provides prior blood sugar average now recommended for diabetes screening, diagnosis (w/ Video)
Dec 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an annual supplement to the journal Diabetes Care, published Dec. 29 by the American Diabetes Association, the A1C test is given a prominent role in the 2010 guidelines for diabetes screening, diagnosis ...
COMPASS points to weight loss
Dec 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are recruiting families with overweight children for a study to help those kids, and their parents, lose weight. The two-year study, ...
Mayan glyphs detail priest's life, blood sacrifices
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 29, 2009 |
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Experts are studying the first Mayan hieroglyphic script dealing with the life of a high priest, his blood sacrifices and acts of penance, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said.
Overweight men at higher risk of heart attack, stroke, premature death
Dec 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Overweight or obese middle-aged men are at a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and premature death — even if they don’t have the metabolic syndrome, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of ...
Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture
Dec 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.
Student sleuths using DNA reveal zoo of 95 species in NYC homes -- and new evidence of food fraud
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Two New York City high school students exploring their homes using the latest high-tech DNA analysis techniques were astonished to discover a veritable zoo of 95 animal species surrounding them, in everything ...
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