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A useful imaging modality for monitoring treatment response to hepatocellular carcinoma
Oct 31, 2008 |
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TACE has been widely accepted as a choice of treatment for advanced HCC. CT perfusion is a non-invasive and reproducible technique for assessing perfusion changes due to TACE therapy for locally advanced HCC. However, there ...
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A new explanation of 'Asian paradox'
Oct 28, 2009 |
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There is abundant evidence of an association between Helicobacter pylori chronic infection and gastric cancer. The incidence of gastric cancer is much higher in Japan than Indonesia. A research from Indonesia and Japan found ...
Should children undergo surgery without a long period of fasting after feeding?
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Blood glucose levels in a lot of patients fed normal liquid food (NLF) and a high calorie diet (HCD) were high. There was no significant difference in the blood prealbumin levels. There was a significant increase in the blood ...
Is 31P MRS a useful tool for evaluating early acute hepatic radiation injury?
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Acute hepatic radiation injury could lead to necrosis of hepatocytes, fatty degeneration and hepatic fibrosis. At the present, the gold standard test is liver biopsy. However, this procedure is invasive, uncomfortable for ...
Study reveals publics' ignorance of anatomy
Jun 12, 2009 |
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A study of patients and members of the public has shown that most lack even basic knowledge of human anatomy. The research, featured in the open access journal BMC Family Practice, found that people were generally incapa ...
Indiana reflects national trend as geography literacy declines
Jul 14, 2009 |
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A study in the Journal of Geography reports that despite increased support for K-12 geography education over a 15-year period, geography knowledge among Indiana college freshmen has not improved.
Donor race may impact kidney transplant survival
Oct 30, 2009 |
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The race of kidney donors may affect the survival rates of transplant recipients according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital.
Study shows endoscopic surgery as effective open surgery for nasal cancer
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that endoscopic surgery is a valid treatment option for treating esthesioneuroblastoma (cancer of the nasal cavity), in addition to traditional open ...
ICSI or IVF: Babies born from frozen embryos do just as well
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) do just as well as those born from ...
Irbesartan reduces heart failure in patients with quivering heart
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Most research in atrial fibrillation (AF) has focused on reducing stroke and other embolic events. Yet heart failure occurs more frequently in AF patients, but has not been the focus of intervention research.
Exenatide promotes weight loss when added to diet and exercise
Jun 11, 2009 |
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In combination with diet and exercise, the diabetes drug exenatide helped nondiabetic, obese individuals lose over three times more weight than those receiving a placebo, or dummy treatment, for 6 months.
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