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African-Americans lose weight in 12-week, church-based program
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Nearly half of overweight and obese African Americans who completed a 12-week, faith-based program lost 5 percent or more of their body weight and most kept it off for at least six months, researchers reported at the American ...
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Dartmouth researchers find new protein function
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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A group of Dartmouth researchers has found a new function for one of the proteins involved with chromosome segregation during cell division. Their finding adds to the growing knowledge about the fundamental ...
Chemotherapy plus targeted therapies shows improved survival in advance-stage lung cancer patients
Nov 13, 2008 |
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The combination of traditional chemotherapy agents with targeted therapies called monoclonal antibodies showed no safety concerns and improved survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer according to a study ...
AIDS vaccine nears human testing
Aug 31, 2006 |
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A University of Kansas Medical Center researcher hopes to get the funds needed for the next step in developing his AIDS vaccine -- testing on humans.
Researchers report gene associated with language, speech and reading disorders
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 27, 2009 |
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A new candidate gene for Specific Language Impairment has been identified by a research team directed by Mabel Rice at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with Shelley Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center, ...
Work begins on national e-health record network
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Doctor's offices and hospitals have slowly started the difficult switch from outmoded paper records to sophisticated electronic systems in a bid to improve care and cut costs.
Drug reduces daily 'off' time for Parkinson patients
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Parkinson disease patients taking the drug, ropinirole 24-hour prolonged release significantly reduced their daily "off" time in which Parkinson's symptoms like tremor, slowness, stiffness, and walking difficulty return as ...
Differences among exercisers and nonexercisers during pregnancy
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 17, 2009 |
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No one doubts that mothers - especially pregnant mothers - are among the busiest people on earth. And while the benefits of exercise for these women and their developing fetuses are widely known, many expectant mothers do ...
More compressions, fewer interruptions lead to higher cardiac arrest survival
May 04, 2009 |
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Survival rates from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest almost doubled when professional rescuers using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) gave better chest compressions and minimized interruptions to them, according to ...
Scientists uncover function of potential cancer-causing gene product
Aug 09, 2009 |
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The Stowers Institute's Conaway Lab has uncovered a previously unknown function of a gene product called Amplified in Liver Cancer 1 (Alc1), which may play a role in the onset of cancer. The work was published yesterday by ...
Next generation of health care workers train through medical simulation (w/Video)
May 19, 2009 |
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Soldiers and pilots use simulation training to learn accuracy, safety and confidence. Now, University of Missouri medical, nursing, health professions and University of Missouri - Kansas City pharmacy instructors ...
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