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Potential cancer drug may offer new hope for asthma patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A drug being tested to treat cancer could also help patients suffering from asthma, research has suggested.


Quitting smoking can reverse asthma-inducing changes in lungs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Asthmatic smokers may be able to reverse some of the damage to their lungs that exacerbates asthmatic symptoms just by putting down their cigarettes, according to research out of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.


Italy's poor go to the hospital more

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Despite free public healthcare, Italy's poor are more likely to end up in hospital with avoidable conditions, new research shows. This pattern, reported today in the online open access journal BMC Public Health, mirrors findin ...


Drug industry embraces new business strategies after tough year

Drug industry embraces new business strategies after tough year

Chemistry / Other

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

As they pop the champagne corks to celebrate New Year's Eve, drug industry executives will likely be glad to put 2009 behind them. That's because pharmaceutical companies who make top-selling drugs for heart ...


The changing pattern of childhood blindness in developing countries

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

"Changing patterns of global childhood blindness suggest a reassessment of research, training, and programmatic needs," says a team of eye specialists from India, Malawi, and Tanzania.


H1N1 more risky than seasonal flu in children with sickle cell disease

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infection with the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, causes more life-threatening complications than seasonal flu in children with sickle cell disease, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The findings, to ...


Chinese-American and Korean-American women at highest risk for diabetes in pregnancy

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More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of ...


Study confirms association between tobacco smoke and behavioral problems in children

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created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The scientists observed that the impact of tobacco smoke was especially detrimental during gestation. The results of the study have been published in the current online issue of the renowned journal Environmental Health Pe ...


Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)

Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays

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(AP) -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.


Antioxidant compound reduced incidence of colorectal metachronous adenomas

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Supplementation with a selenium-based antioxidant compound decreased the risk of developing new polyps of the large bowel — called colorectal metachronous adenomas — in people who previously had colorectal polyps removed.



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