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Metastatic bone disease patients can walk in Lazarus' footsteps

Osteoplasty—a highly effective minimally invasive procedure to treat the painful effects of metastatic bone disease by injecting bone cement to support weakened bones—provides immediate and substantial pain relief, often ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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




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Antenatal thyroid screening fails to improve IQ in 3-year-olds

Children of mothers screened and treated for reduced thyroid function during pregnancy show no signs of improved IQ compared to women who receive no treatment, new research has uncovered.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antiretroviral therapy has tripled the proportion of adults achieving undetectable levels of HIV

Over the past decade in western Europe there has been a dramatic improvement in the ability of antiretroviral therapy to keep HIV under control in adults with virological failure to drugs from all three of the original antiretroviral ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Surprising AIDS-treatment benefits, prevention strategy in epidemic regions of Africa

Two teams of researchers at UC San Diego and other U.S. and African universities and the World Bank have documented significant spillover benefits of a drug therapy to combat AIDS symptoms and a novel prevention strategy ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children and teens with Tourette syndrome find relief with self-hypnosis

A new study of children and adolescents with Tourette Syndrome finds that self-hypnosis taught with the aid of videotape training reduced their symptoms and improved their quality of life.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vertebroplasty for patients with osteoporosis provides effective pain relief

Patient selection is key for vertebroplasty -- a minimally invasive treatment performed by interventional radiologists in individuals with painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures that fail to respond to conventional ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nuclear physics promises earlier detection of brain tumors with just one scan

Time taken to detect brain tumours could soon be significantly reduced thanks to an ongoing pioneering project led by the University of Liverpool with the Nuclear Physics Group and Technology departments at the Science and ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Moss helps chart the conquest of land by plants (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent work at Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on one of the most important events in earth-history, the conquest of land by plants 480 million years ago.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blood thinner causes stroke in some dialysis patients

The blood thinner warfarin can prevent strokes in most individuals with abnormal heart rhythms, but the drug may have the opposite effect in kidney disease patients on dialysis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming ...

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created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study tracks increasing use of CT on pregnant women

Researchers have found that over a 10-year period radiologic exams on pregnant women have more than doubled, according to a study published in the online edition of Radiology.

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created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Work with power grids leads to cell biology discovery

Gene therapy, in which a working gene is inserted into a cell to replace a faulty or absent gene, is a promising experimental technique for the prevention and treatment of disease.

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created Mar 17, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2


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