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A symptom (from Greek σύμπτωμα, "accident, misfortune, that which befalls", from συμπίπτω, "I befall", from συν- "together, with" + πίπτω, "I fall") is a departure from normal function or feeling which is noticed by a patient, indicating the presence of disease or abnormality. A symptom is subjective, observed by the patient, and not measured.

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Improving Cardiac Rehab for Women with Heart Disease

Improving Cardiac Rehab for Women with Heart Disease

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- USF Health researcher shows motivational "women-only" cardiac rehab improves symptoms of depression.





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Educational home visits can improve asthma in children, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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A few home visits by a health care specialist to educate children with asthma about basic strategies for earlier symptom recognition and improving medication use can lead to fewer flare-ups and less frequent trips to the ...


Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology / Biotechnology

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Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa.


Study describes new tool in the fight against autoimmune diseases, blood cancers

Medicine & Health / Research

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A study led by a Scripps Research Institute scientist describes a new, highly pragmatic approach to the identification of molecules that prevent a specific type of immune cells from attacking their host. The findings add ...


Pancreatic tumors are marked for immunotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Pancreatic tumors can be identified by a readily detectable marker that shows promise as a basis for immune therapy against the disease, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.


Scientists reveal malaria parasites' tactics for outwitting our immune systems

Scientists reveal malaria parasites' tactics for outwitting our immune systems

Medicine & Health / Research

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Malaria parasites are able to disguise themselves to avoid the host's immune system, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...


First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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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 ...


A reductionist approach to HIV research

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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A major obstacle to HIV research is the virus's exquisite specialisation for its human host - meaning that scientists' traditional tools, like the humble lab mouse, can deliver only limited information. Now, a team of researchers ...


Does a placebo gene exist?

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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A short time ago, Swedish scientists published a paper suggesting the existence of a genetic disposition to respond to placebo, thus giving rise to debate in the media about a possible "placebo gene." In the current issue ...


WHO: Treat HIV patients sooner (AP)

WHO: Treat HIV patients sooner

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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(AP) -- People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday.



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