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Doctors Warn Against Holiday Heart Attack Spike

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some studies indicate that death rates from heart attacks and stroke as well as non-heart-related causes spike during the holiday season.


New guidelines for treating complicated skin and soft tissue infections

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New evidence-based recommendations developed by the Surgical Infection Society to guide physicians in the diagnosis and management of complicated skin and soft tissue infections have been published in Surgical Infections.


Scientists report first effective medical therapy for rare stomach disorder

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

A drug used to treat colorectal cancer also can reverse a rare stomach disorder and should be considered first-line therapy for the disease, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center report this week.


Drug side effects a key factor in reduced quality of life for kidney transplant patients

Medicine & Health / Other

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

People who have kidney transplants need longer-term support than most friends, relatives or even healthcare professionals realise, according to a study of 160 patients published in the December issue of the UK-based Journal of ...


Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes (AP)

Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working ...


New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...


Role of Statins in Reducing H1N1 Mortality Rates Studied

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are studying statins, the class of drugs long associated with lowering cholesterol, as a way to reduce H1N1-related deaths.


Researchers to develop novel drug detection technology using software that acts like a robotic scientist

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every time a person snorts cocaine, it doesn’t just go to his or her head: It also provokes a response in the immune system, creating special biomolecules that may serve as a permanent record of each exposure.



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