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Caffeine gives a small boost to painkillers' effectiveness
Caffeine improves the effectiveness of over-the-counter pain relieving drugs, but only by a small margin, according to a new evidence review in The Cochrane Library.
Medications
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Deaths from gastroenteritis doubles
The number of people who died from gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestines that causes vomiting and diarrhea) more than doubled from 1999 to 2007. The findings of this study will be presented today at ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 14, 2012 |
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New labor-tracking tool proposed to reduce C-sections in first-time moms
Researchers have designed a new version of a labor-tracking tool for pregnant women that they predict could reduce the use of hormonal intervention during labor and lower the number of cesarean sections performed on low-risk, ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Mar 14, 2012 |
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One in four tuberculosis cases due to recent transmission
(HealthDay) -- About one in four cases of tuberculosis in the United States can be attributed to recent transmission, with groups such as men and persons born in the United States at higher risk, according ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 09, 2012 |
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New pig model may lead to progress in treating debilitating eye disease
A newly developed, genetically modified pig may hold the keys to the development of improved treatments and possibly even a cure for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), the most common inherited retinal disease in the United States. ...
Ophthalmology
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Researchers find possible genetic keys to surviving epithelial ovarian cancer
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom have used two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) – one from the U.S. and one from the U.K. ...
Cancer
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Place matters when it comes to health
The community or neighborhood you live in can impact your health in big ways, and disadvantaged, low-income populations in the United States are at an increased risk of experiencing unhealthy conditions, more sickness and ...
Health
Mar 02, 2012 |
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3Qs: Analyzing why sudden drug shortages occur
Drug manufacturers and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scrambled earlier this month to address a sudden shortage of methotrexate, a 60-year-old drug that treats children with severe cases of leukemia ...
Medications
Feb 28, 2012 |
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3Qs: Taking a patient-facing approach to health care
The United States spends $2 trillion in health care annually. New technologies and approaches to health care have led to a growing field in health informatics, which has a focus on both the clinical and personal ...
Health
Feb 24, 2012 |
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Hepatitis C, a leading killer, is frequently undiagnosed but often curable
(Medical Xpress) -- Hepatitis C virus — not AIDS-causing HIV — is the leading chronic virus infection leading to death in the United States, and its victims most often are baby boomers. More than ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 24, 2012 |
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New melanoma drug Zelboraf nearly doubles survival in majority of patients
Investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and 12 other centers in the United States and Australia have found that a new drug for patients with metastatic melanoma nearly doubled median overall survival.
Cancer
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Study: Few immigrants go to the doctor
(Medical Xpress) -- New research from Duke University challenges a long-held assumption that immigrants are generally healthy before they move to the United States but become less so while living here.
Health
Feb 22, 2012 |
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CDC study suggests H3N2 swine virus may have pandemic potential
(Medical Xpress) -- A CDC study led by microbiologist Terrence Tumpey has found that the H3N2 virus that infected several people in the United States last year, may have more pandemic potential than has been ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Italian Nobel medicine winner Dulbecco dies at 97
Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has died in California. He was 97.
Other
Feb 20, 2012 |
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International ranking for infant mortality flawed: study
Canada's ranking in international child health indexes would dramatically improve if measurements were standardized, according to a new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University, McGill ...
Health
Feb 17, 2012 |
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