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Study examines reliability of clinical and pathological diagnoses of Barrett's esophagus
May 14, 2009 |
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In a review of more than 2,000 patients coded for Barrett's esophagus, electronic diagnosis overestimated the prevalence of the disease according to researchers in California. They found that only 61.9 percent of patients ...
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Code breakthrough delivers safer computing
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer researchers at UNSW and NICTA have achieved a breakthrough in software which will deliver significant increases in security and reliability and has the potential to be a major commercialisation success.
Living wills have an impact on pre-hospital lifesaving care
Feb 24, 2009 |
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A new study conducted at the Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, and published by Elsevier in the February 2009 issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine shows that there is a lack of education and understanding in wha ...
Hospital to put codes on surgical sponges
Dec 08, 2007 |
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Loyola Medical Center in Chicago is putting bar codes on surgical sponges to make sure they aren't left inside a patient after an operation is over.
Gene against bacterial attack unravelled
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Oct 28, 2008 |
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Dutch researcher Joost Wiersinga from AMC Medical Center in Amsterdam has unravelled a genetic defense mechanism against the lethal bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei. The research is the next step towards a vaccine against ...
Psychology Researchers Recommend Ethical Ban on Torture by Psychologists
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arkansas psychology professor Jeffrey Lohr and colleague David Tolin have documented the history and criticisms of the ethics policy of the American Psychological Association and recommended ...
Structure of key epigenetics component identified
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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Scientists from the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) have determined the 3D structure of a key protein component involved in enabling "epigenetic code" to be copied accurately from cell to cell.
Aetna links medical history to health info
Mar 13, 2008 |
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A U.S. health insurer is offering its customers an online service linking personal health data to online research of medical issues.
Genetic changes outside nuclear DNA suspected to trigger more than half of all cancers
Mar 24, 2009 |
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A buildup of chemical bonds on certain cancer-promoting genes, a process known as hypermethylation, is widely known to render cells cancerous by disrupting biological brakes on runaway growth. Now, Johns Hopkins scientists ...
'Fishy' clue helps establish how proteins evolve
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three billion years ago, a "new" amino acid was added to the alphabet of 20 that commonly make up proteins in organisms today. Now researchers at Yale and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated ...
New genes involved in acute lymphoblastic leukemia play fundamental role in prognosis of the disease
Feb 06, 2009 |
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The inactivity or "silence" of certain genes plays a fundamental role in the prognosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia as well as in response to treatment, according to the results of research involving a ...
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