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...powerful meticillin antibiotics - may have evolved from this earlier pandemic-causing strain. The researchers have sequenced key genes from 80/81 samples isolated between 1955 and 1969 in Australia, England and the USA, and compared them wi...Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
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... displays, identifying targets or patterns ranging from dim to strong using the "amplification" or focusing in process. Then they trained on "noisy," or high-clutter, displays, exercising their filtering mechanism. The other three volunteers started with the noisy displays and then switched to clear. Over...Sucampo submits new drug application for lubiprostone
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...s, regardless of their age. Researchers used data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epid...udy. These men were diagnosed with prostate cancer from Jan. 1, 1973 to Dec. 31, 1994. A total of 30,552 men received radiation, of which 1,437 developed re...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
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...he University of Minnesota Cancer Center used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Registry to evaluate the effect of radiation on development of cancer in the rectum. More than 85,000 men, age 18 to 80, were included in this retrospective, population-based study. Radiation th...Statin simvastatin linked to protection against endothelial dysfunction in diabetic rats
... population. Since most patients with diabetes die from some vascular complication, Medical College of Georgia researchers set out to determine the effects of simvastatin on endothelial cell dysfunction, an early pivotal event in atherogenesis and a major cause of the microvascular complications in diabet...Asthma patients' immune systems respond differently with allergies
Researchers from the University of Chihuahua in Mexico report that ...en obtained during a time when they were suffering from common season allergic rhinitis or when they were free of such allergic symptoms. The study was pr...Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
...sistently make no effort to protect their children from secondhand smoke in public places. The findings ar...ir pediatrician. The adults were asked to identify from a list of possible rules which family smoking restrictions were in place within their family. This i...Top anti-arthritis drugs cause skin disease
... study of the kind Marcel Flendrie and colleagues, from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the ...tudy show that 25% of patients on therapy suffered from a dermatological condition that led them to visit a skin specialist. In a control group of patients ...Urban neighborhoods affect how people think about health
...or neighborhoods were more likely to stay home ill from work than those who lived in more impoverished nei...ess likely to seek regular care or spend days home from work or in the hospital. These results illustrate that, because of economic hardship, some poor peop...Study shows new antipsychotic drug prevents brain loss in schizophrenia
...l drugs, if started early, can prevent the illness from progressing. If our findings are confirmed, one could argue that we should treat new patients with atypical drugs like olanzapine rather than older conventional medications such as haloperidol and chlorpromazine." Gray matter contains the bulk of th...More exhaust inhaled by kids inside school buses than by others in the area, says new UC study
...ollectively inhale as much or more exhaust emitted from those buses as does the rest of the city's populat...hlight the problem of "self-pollution," or exhaust from the vehicle leaking into the cabin, particularly among older buses. This also is the first study to ...Last call for Annual World of Children award nominations
...Trust, and has protected more than 68,000 children from blindness and trained more than 1.3 million women in nutrition and education to increase their children's well-being. Jeremiah J. Lowney, Jr., DDS, MS, MPH, Connecticut, USA , established The Haitian Health Foundation, and has provided medical se...If you fill it, they will slurp, and slurp, and slurp ...
...d a free soup lunch to 54 adults, half of whom ate from normal 18-ounce soup bowls, while the other half ate from identical bowls that, unbeknownst to the participants, were slowly refilled through tubing connected...Study shows light therapy to effectively treat mood disorders, including SAD
...r themselves. "And when you can separate the wheat from the chaff, the findings are much more valid."...Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
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