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Repeat negative CT scan for lung cancer does not encourage ex-smokers to resume the habit

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerized tomography (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in ...


Screening method able to identify newborns with blood disorder that affects immune system

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

The testing of DNA from a statewide blood screening program for newborns in Wisconsin was able to identify infants with T-cell lymphopenia, a blood disorder that affects the child's immune system, a disease in which early ...


New CRC screening combination increases detection by 10 percent

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The combination of sigmoidoscopy and fecal immunochemical test (FIT) detects advanced proximal (right-sided) tumors better than either test alone, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the of ...


Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings (AP)

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(AP) -- As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according ...


Invention will help speed development of drug treatments for heart failure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research conducted by University of Minnesota scientists, in collaboration with Celladon Corporation, has led to the invention of technology to more rapidly identify compounds for the treatment of heart failure.


Aggressive infection control protects cancer patients from acquiring H1N1 influenza

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Despite a 100-fold increase in H1N1 influenza cases in the Seattle area during spring 2009, an aggressive infection control program to protect immunocompromised cancer patients and thorough screening measures resulted in ...


Parents: Be mindful of hazardous holiday ornaments

Parents: Be mindful of hazardous holiday ornaments

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study from Children's Hospital Boston's Division of Emergency Medicine has found that holiday decorations, particularly glass ornaments, are one more safety hazard parents must consider during the season. ...


First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A school-based behavioral intervention program developed under a federal grant in the mid-1990s at the University of Oregon, already in widespread use, now has shown real value on a complex stage, scoring ...


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Preventing Spread of HIV in Jails: Best Window of Opportunity Early in Incarceration

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With World AIDS Day less than a week away, two new studies from Yale School of Medicine show that jail inmates, one of the highest risk groups for AIDS, are far more likely to be tested for ...


A new target for lymphoma therapy

A new target for lymphoma therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Researchers at the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital Boston (PCMM/IDI) have found a link between a common mutation that can lead to cancer and ...



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