Mayo Clinic case series illuminates connection between welding, brain damage
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...mited. Now we know that diabetic retinopathy does occur in pre-diabetes. We're also seeing it early in the course of diabetes--within an average of 3 years after diagnosis," noted Richard Hamman, M.D., DrPH, professor and chair, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado Sc...Study explains why up to eight percent of cancers go undetected
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...romising to better target the specific errors that occur on the smallest of scales yet have profound effects on the development of disease. Mark D. Rintoul, Ph.D., manager of computational biology at Sandia National Laboratories, will direct the informatics core. An NIH steering committee for the MLSCN, ...Oral liquid hydroxyurea promising for long-term use in babies with sickle cell anemia
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...ience shaking they cannot control. The tremors can occur in any part of the body. Often the tremors interfere in daily activities such as eating and drinking or getting dressed. The tremors can begin in early adulthood and may become worse with age. In most cases, essential tremor runs in families. The gui...Young athletes' post-concussion migraine may signal greater neurocognitive impairment
...s in the National Football League, more than 5,200 occur in our youth in the United States alone," said Melvin Field, M.D., study co-author who now is co-director of the Florida Sports Concussion Program and a neurosurgeon at the Orlando Neurosurgery and Florida Hospital Neuroscience Institute. "This is a ...