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...ing to give low-dose angiostatin after completinga short course of radiation. The study wasn't designed to ...rapy, could becomemore effective with a boost from short courses of concomitant low-doseangiostatin. This combination may be the most efficient, most benefic...Small Risk Of Pill Disappears After Ten Years
...tives since their inception in 1959. Although the short term effects of the pill are well documented, less is known about the long term effects. In this week's BMJ, Professor Valerie Beral and colleagues from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Royal College of General Practitioners report the resu...Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...their eyes not fully developed; the eyeball is too short for the eye's powerful optic capability. As babies grow older, the eyes grow in length so that by age one in monkeys and age four in humans, about 95% of the growth is complete. This is about a seven millimeter increase -- just the right length for ...New Surgery At Cedars-Sinai Provides Hope For Epilepsy Patient Who Has Had A Lifetime Of Seizures
...ncrements." For Mary Kate, the results are nothing short of miraculous. She's experienced noseizures since the surgery and feels wonderful -- and extraordinarily thankful."I tell people, if Dr. Levesque was a religion, I'd join," said Mary Kate,laughing. "He's the best." Though Mary Kate, now 33, had exper...School Computer Posture Problems Found
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...owledge and practice of paediatric drugs isnothing short of a national disgrace," says Al Aynsley-Green, the director ofclinical research and development at Great Ormond Street. In the US, an estimated 80 per cent of prescription drugs are notlicensed for use in children, according to a 1996 report...Morning Coffee Boosts Blood Pressure, Stress Hormones All Day
... a single dose ofcaffeine is compared to none in a short time span. Lane said his body ofresearch is unique because it measures blood pressure, heart rate and stresshormone levels at timed intervals during normal working conditions, whilesubjects are exposed to a range of moods and activities. "You...Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors May Be Another Piece In Alzheimer's Jigsaw
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... was an adopted baby (14); and a short postnatalhospital stay (7). Why those in the operating room group hadnot been circumcised wasn't known since patient chartsoften lacked such details. Jayanthi said the main re......rnia San Francisco team show thatLatina women with short interpregnancy intervals--18 months or less betwee...e researchers looked at three classifications of a short interpregnancyinterval: extremely short (under six months); very short, (6-11 months); andmoderately...Nerve Cells Live Long And Talkative Lives In Sculpted Colonies On Silicon Chips
...in called the hippocampus, which isassociated with short term memory. Brinton dissociates the cells from theirintricate network of interconnections with each other, and then places them asindividual cells on a specially prepared silicon testbed studded with a matrixof electrodes. The dissociated cells, app...Sniffing Out The Promise Of Anti-Angiogenesis Therapy
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...tion transfer between communicating nerve cells by short intensiveelectrical stimuli and to measure this improvement as an increased response bythe neuron, which lasts for several hours. Henceforth, this test, termedlong-term potentiation (LTP) in scientific textbooks, has been used as a measurefor the cap...7,000 Pharmaceutical scientists to share latest drug developments and discoveries
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... lead time in the population would have to bequite short - three years or less. Prostate cancer, however, typically isassociated with a longer lead time, as the disease often goes undetected formany years prior to diagnosis. While two previous studies suggested an average lead time ranging from three tofiv...