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Lance Armstrong Foundation establishes Endowed Chair in Oncology at Indiana University

...arch on improving patient therapies. "Cancer is a scary diagnosis for anyone, but Lance, through his personal advocacy and the work of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, has given hope to millions of survivors. This extraordinary gift will enable us to transform that hope into real results for people battlin...

A good night's sleep can mean a better day at school

...of sleep kids get once they start school, and it's scary to look at how little sleep kids actually get once they become teenagers," Dr. Fallone said. This pattern likely holds true for children who have been diagnosed with ADHD as well. According to Fallone, who is a clinical psychologist, "If we don't ask...

Thanksgiving gluttony misaligned with 'intuitive eating' approach examined in new study

...nd of food that you want," said Hawks. "And that's scary for people who say, 'If I abandon my diet rules, then I'll fill a pillowcase full of M&M's, dive into it and never come up again. That's what I crave, I know that's what I crave, that's all I will always crave.' But that's not the reality. The realit...

Statins, beta-blockers lessen heart attack risk, says Stanford-Kaiser study

...niversity of California-San Francisco. "That's the scary thing about heart disease," said senior author Mark Hlatky, MD, professor of health research and policy and of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford. "You can be fine one minute and dead the next. You can put up with a little chest pain every once in a...

Study elicits 'child's eye' view of methamphetamine abuse and its effects

...nd that when the children were asked about "sad or scary times," they talked first or most often about the experience of losing their parents, even months later, Haight said. "Most want desperately to be with their families and feel a great deal of pain and grief over being separated from their parents." A...

'Beavertail' surgery helps tongue cancer patients

...ose risk factors. "It's not an epidemic, but it is scary when you realize you can do everything right and still be saddled with this condition," O'Connell noted. The research team hopes the study's findings will convince other doctors treating patients with base of tongue cancers that primary surgery foll...

Online book helps children understand the effects of stroke

...t's changes in mood and ability to communicate are scary to a child who doesn't understand that this is a manifestation of the stroke that often will get better. We looked, but there was very little available in the way of kid-friendly books or websites that could help." Now a new resource is available f...

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(Date:5/16/2013)... trigger hematopoiesis at sites outside the bone marrow ... Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now show that a specific ... of blood cells. , Balanced hematopoiesis is essential for ... hematopoiesis takes place mainly in the liver and the ... marrow, and this tissue normally serves as the sole ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... from Canada and around the world are meeting ... Neuroscience Meeting will showcase the latest in research ... reveal clues to understanding the disorders that affect ... and this meeting will showcase the best of ... says Sam David, President of the Canadian Association ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... Most of us don,t ponder our pulses outside of the ... tool to monitor heart health. , Zhenan Bao, a professor ... thinner than a dollar bill and no wider than a ... bandage on the wrist, is sensitive enough to help doctors ... one day be used to continuously track heart health and ...
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