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Newly identified genetic variants found to increase breast cancer risk
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A large-scale effort to identify genetic markers of breast cancer has uncovered two common genetic variants that increase risk of the disease in women of European ancestry.
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A more direct delivery of cancer drugs to tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has demonstrated a better way to deliver ...
Researchers find potential cause of heart risks for shift workers
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and colleagues have identified the potential cause of the increased risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease in shift workers. ...
Shift workers most impaired on first night shift following day shifts
Nov 28, 2007 |
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School affiliate Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that the attention of shift workers is most impaired on the first night shift following a string of day shifts. This research appears ...
Low blood sugar in hospital linked to higher death risk
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that diabetics hospitalized for noncritical illnesses who develop hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) during hospitalization have ...
Clinical trial will test new HIV/AIDS vaccine
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 03, 2008 |
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A phase 1 clinical trial to test a novel HIV/AIDS vaccine has begun at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). This new vaccine aims to overcome the problem of preexisting immunity to common vaccine vectors, which is thought ...
Blood type study sheds light on biology of pancreatic cancer
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Offering a novel clue about the basic biology of pancreatic cancer, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have confirmed a decades-old discovery of a link between blood type and the ...
Consumption of some foods associated with decrease in ovarian cancer risk
Nov 21, 2007 |
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New research from the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) reports that frequent consumption of foods containing the flavonoid kaempferol, including non-herbal tea and broccoli, was associated ...
Obesity in middle aged women cuts chance of a long, healthy life by 80 percent
Sep 30, 2009 |
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A new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) researchers has found that, among a large study population of women who lived until at least age 70, being overweight in mid-life ...
Hormone therapy in postmenopausal women associated with increased risk of stroke
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Postmenopausal women taking hormone therapy appear to have an increased risk of stroke regardless of when they started treatment, according to a report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Nanoparticles armed to combat cancer
Apr 10, 2006 |
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Ultra-small particles loaded with medicine - and aimed with the precision of a rifle - are offering a promising new way to strike at cancer, according to researchers working at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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