Study finds little evidence of health benefits from organic foods
You're in the supermarket eyeing a basket of sweet, juicy plums. You reach for the conventionally grown stone fruit, then decide to spring the extra $1/pound for its organic cousin. You figure you've just made the healthier ...
Health
Sep 03, 2012 |
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Study finds new neural brain-to-bone pathway controlling skeletal development
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that a neuronal pathway—part of the autonomic nervous system—reaches the bones and participates in the control of bone development.
Medical research
Sep 03, 2012 |
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State tax incentives do not appear to increase the rate of living organ donation
The policies that several states have adopted giving tax deductions or credits to living organ donors do not appear to have increased donation rates. Authors of the study, appearing in the August issue of the American Jo ...
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Aug 30, 2012 |
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Researchers identify unforeseen regulation of the anti-bacterial immune response
New research from the laboratory of Dr. Andrea Cooper at the Trudeau Institute, just published in the European Journal of Immunology, holds promise for the improved prevention and treatment of bacterial infect ...
Immunology
Aug 28, 2012 |
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Copeptin predicts prognosis in HF patients
Copeptin predicts prognosis in patients with heart failure, according to research presented at the ESC Congress today, August 25, by Professor Stefan Störk from Germany.
Cardiology
Aug 27, 2012 |
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Solving the medical mystery of cold feet
(HealthDay) -- If you've ever been booted out of bed because of your icy feet, new research may help explain your plight.
Medical research
Aug 17, 2012 |
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Could FastStitch device be the future of suture?
After a surgeon stitches up a patient's abdomen, costly complications -- some life-threatening -- can occur. To cut down on these postoperative problems, Johns Hopkins undergraduates have invented a disposable ...
Surgery
Aug 16, 2012 |
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Double vision: hybrid medical imaging technology may shed new light on cancer
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new type of medical imaging that gives doctors a new look at ...
Medical research
Aug 14, 2012 |
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New key element discovered in pathogenesis of Burkitt lymphoma
Burkitt lymphoma is a malignant, fast-growing tumor that originates from a subtype of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system and often affects internal organs and the central nervous system. Now Dr. Sandrine ...
Cancer
Aug 13, 2012 |
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Racial differences in diabetes diagnostic thresholds: study
Healthcare providers should take into account differences among racial groups when using hemoglobin A1C levels to diagnose and monitor diabetes, new research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center suggests.
Diabetes
Aug 06, 2012 |
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Philippines on alert for mystery Cambodian disease
The Philippines has stepped up screening of airport arrivals to prevent the entry of a mysterious disease that has killed 60 children in Cambodia, the health secretary said Saturday. ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 07, 2012 |
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Ethics framework urged to manage conflicts of interest in medicine
A recent international study led by researchers from McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) examines the complex and controversial interplay of conflicts of interest between physician experts, medicine ...
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Jun 13, 2012 |
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Brazil claims successful test of parasite vaccine
Brazilian researchers say they have successfully tested a vaccine against schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms that afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide.
Medications
Jun 13, 2012 |
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Three types of fetal cells can migrate into maternal organs during pregnancy
A pregnant woman's blood stream contains not only her own cells, but a small number of her child's, as well, and some of them remain in her internal organs long after the baby is born. Understanding the origin and identity ...
Medical research
Jun 06, 2012 |
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Just a few cell clones can make heart muscle
Just a handful of cells in the embryo are all that's needed to form the outer layer of pumping heart muscle in an adult zebrafish.
Medical research
Apr 25, 2012 |
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