Archive: 12/18/2012
Working toward stronger bones with exercise
If you're going to fall and break something, you should at least have a good story to tell.
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Dec 18, 2012 |
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Celiac 'epidemics' link to infections early in life
Celiac disease affects about one percent of the population but occasional 'epidemics' have been noticed along with a seasonal variation in number of cases diagnosed. New research published in BioMed Central's open access ...
Pediatrics
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Many states say 'no' to health insurance exchanges
(HealthDay)—Half of the states in the nation have rebuffed a key provision of the Obama administration's health reform law: the creation of state-based health insurance exchanges, according to data compiled ...
Health
Dec 18, 2012 |
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9/11 cancer study won't settle debate over risks
The most comprehensive study of potential World Trade Center-related cancers raises more questions than it answers and won't end a debate over whether the attacks were really a cause. ...
Cancer
Dec 18, 2012 |
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European trial confirms commonly prescribed antibiotic ineffective for treating cough
The antibiotic amoxicillin, that doctors typically prescribe for common lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) such as cough and bronchitis, is no more effective at relieving symptoms than the use of no medication, even ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Polygenic risk score helpful for women with familial breast CA
(HealthDay)—For women affected by familial breast cancer, a polygenic risk score based on 22 genomic variants can identify women at high-risk of breast cancer, according to a study published in the Dec. ...
Cancer
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Adalimumab relieves hidradenitis suppurativa
(HealthDay)—For patients with moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic skin disease characterized by painful abscesses, nodules, and draining fistulas in the axilla and groin, treatment ...
Inflammatory disorders
Dec 18, 2012 |
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FDA warns about misleading advertising for some laser eye surgeries
(HealthDay)—Five U.S. eye care providers have been warned to stop misleading advertising about the special lasers used in vision correction procedures such as LASIK, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
Ophthalmology
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Cancer patients may not be getting adequate care for debilitating fatigue, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—Many people who have been through cancer and its treatment have trouble with their recovery because of severe, debilitating fatigue that can last for months or even years. But even though a variety of treatments ...
Cancer
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Humanitarian organizations must do more for older people in emergencies
Emergency aid has failed to address the needs of older people in emergency situations and so donors and humanitarian agencies must urgently ensure that this vulnerable group is included in any emergency response, according ...
Health
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Global rates of infertility remain unchanged over past two decades
In 2010, almost 50 million couples worldwide were unable to have a child after five years of trying. Infertility rates have hardly changed over the past 20 years, according to a study by international researchers published ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
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Little evidence to support TB interventions in real-world, low-resource settings
There is little evidence from real world situations in low-and-middle income countries to support the effectiveness and financial value of five interventions* recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to control ...
Health
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Blood test accurately detects lymphedema, study shows
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a set of proteins circulating in blood whose levels accurately flag the presence of lymphedema. The findings, to be reported Dec. 18 in PLoS ONE, spur o ...
Inflammatory disorders
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Cancer cells co-opt immune response to escape destruction
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that tumor cells use stress signals to subvert responding immune cells, exploiting them to actually boost conditions beneficial ...
Cancer
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Scientists discover how HIV virus gains access to carrier immune cells to spread infection
Scientists from the AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa have identified how HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, enters the cells of the immune system enabling it to be dispersed throughout an organism. The new ...
HIV & AIDS
Dec 18, 2012 |
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