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...ten required for symptom relief and to prevent the progression to cancer. The 48-year-old Texas man was referred to Coffey from the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas with endless vomiting - before treatment, he was vomiting an average of 70 times a week. "He was miserable," Coffey said. ...Scientists suspect new genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease
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