There was a low rate of life-threatening adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine administered to potential first responders to a ...
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Researchers from University of Florida ( UF ) have identified one possible reason for rising obesity rates, and it all ...
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A new treatment for pancreatic cancer developed by researchers of Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center substantially reduces ...
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More patients with stage III colon cancer are receiving chemotherapy after surgery, with an associated significant increase in 5-year survival.
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Hospitalization rates for pneumonia have increased substantially for U.S. adults 65 to 84 years of age.
Pneumonia is among the top ...
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A pilot study indicates that many children with serious congenital heart disease, who are typically urged to restrict their activity, ...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center have found that a modified version of a popular low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet is nearly ...
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A study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, has found that teenagers are more likely to think ...
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With every increase or decrease in depressive symptom severity, there is a corresponding significant and stepwise increase or decrease in ...
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Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston ( UTMB ) have identified a key biochemical connection between ...
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A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University found that, by age ...
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A study has shown for the first time that giving two chemotherapy drugs to women with advanced endometrial cancer after ...
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People with high blood pressure and their doctors have a new reason to work at controlling this common but high-risk ...
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People taking highly active antiretroviral therapy ( HAART ) for HIV infection remain susceptible to tuberculosis, though the risk is ...
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A simple test that measures eye movement may help to identify children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder ( FASD ) ...
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Foot ulcerations are one of the most serious complications of diabetes, resulting in more than 80,000 lower-leg amputations each year ...
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Researchers at the University of Illinois ( UI ) at Urbana-Champaign who study the effects of exercise on aging point ...
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Meditation is known to alter resting brain patterns, suggesting long lasting brain changes.
A new study by researchers from Yale, Harvard, ...
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic reported that prostate specific antigen ( PSA ) kinetics, both velocity and doubling time, can be ...
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For older people, the risks outweigh the benefits of taking sleeping pills and other sedatives, say researchers in a study ...
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The Ink4c and Ptch1 genes collaborate to suppress the development of medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric brain tumor, according to ...
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The researcher Alejandro Toledo Arana at University of Navarra has identified two new genes that operate as regulators in the ...
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Researchers at Harvard University have found strong signs that the pheromones driving reproduction and fertility in mice are detected primarily ...
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Researchers might have identified one of the reasons why the bird flu virus H5N1 is so deadly to humans.
A study ...
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Findings reported in the New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) highlight promising findings from two Seattle-based researchers on ...
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No clear evidence exists that some widely-prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs can decrease the risk of melanoma, a deadly and malignant skin ...
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Approximately 9% of children with an allergy to tree nuts will outgrow their allergy, including children who have previously experienced ...
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary ( MEEI ) have found that Chlamydia pneumoniae, a bacterium linked to ...
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Certain behaviors, such as eating, drinking and urinating, are so crucial to survival that the brains of all vertebrates contain ...
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Virginia hope to reset part of the "epigenetic ...
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Results from researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) have shown for the first ...
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Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ), such as Ibuprofen, may significantly reduce the risk of esophageal cancer ...
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In some cases, the fusion of human cells is a normal process that leads, for instance, to the formation of ...
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that nerve-cell dendrites have the capacity to splice messenger ...
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Researchers at Yale Univeristy have brought to light a mechanism that regulates the way an internal organelle, the Golgi apparatus, ...
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Researchers may have discovered a new way that may assist in the early diagnosis of schizophrenia by utilizing MRI ( ...
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For children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ), possessing a variant of a gene involved in brain signaling ...
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have found that a gene pathway linked to a deadly form of ...
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A new anthrax antibody engineered by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin protects and defends against inhalation anthrax ...
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A study, conducted by researchers at the University of Iowa ( UI ), found that children conceived through in vitro ...
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Researchers at the MUHC and McGill University have identified a gene responsible for a disease that impairs the body's ability ...
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Researchers have shown that cat allergens can impair lung function in people with asthma for up to 22 hours after ...
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"Acetaminophen poisoning has become the most common cause of acute liver failure in the United States," report the authors of ...
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Researchers in the lab of David Bartel at Whitehead Institute have found that a class of small RNAs called microRNAs ...
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A University of Minnesota Cancer Center study is the first to show how the prevalence of some physical impairments that ...
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A study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, has shown when life-threatening problems occur during angioplasty ...
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Despite better management of blood pressure – the number-one risk factor for strokes – stroke incidence is not declining and ...
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A report written by an OHSU physician with more than a half century of medical experience contradicts both public and ...
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Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center have uncovered part of the genetic mechanism that causes new arteries to ...
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A study of postmenopausal women supports the hypothesis that women who smoke cigarettes before first full-term pregnancy have a 20 ...
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A study on patients with cystic fibrosis who have had abnormal bleeding from ruptured blood vessels in the esophagus ( ...
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A study in guinea pigs suggests that a drug commonly given to pregnant women to help their babies mature enough ...
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Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School have discovered that insulin and its receptors drop significantly in the ...
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A study led by researchers from Columbia University Medical Center demonstrates the safety and efficacy of two low-tech diagnostic tools ...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that people whose muscle wall thickness contained more than 25 percent scar tissue were ...
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A simple, a single light box and the over-the-counter drug Melatonin, allows travelers to avoid jet lag by resetting their ...
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Nearly half of 118 children with chronic Hepatitis C virus ( HCV ) treated with a combination of Interferon-alpha-2b ( ...
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A study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that medication commonly used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ...
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Researchers have reported evidence that a statin, Lovastatin ( Mevacor ), already shown to be safe for use in humans ...
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A research study shows how common a medical misdiagnosis can be and how severely it can exacerbate a disease.
Focusing ...
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The first national study to look at the connection between smoking in movies and smoking initiation among adolescents shows that ...
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A team led by Krzysztof Palczewski, at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has taken the first steps ...
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A case-control study of more than 2000 people has identified a number of factors that may induce primary biliary cirrhosis ...
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Researchers studying a mouse model of neurofibromatosis 1 ( NF1 ), a genetic condition that causes childhood brain tumors, have ...
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Neurons experience large-scale changes across their dendrites during learning, say neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin.
The research, published ...
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Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center found that diabetic black men have dramatically lower amounts of atherosclerosis, or ...
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A research has shown that idiopathic interstitial pneumonia ( IIP ), a group of potentially fatal disorders that affects the ...
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Study results have provided further valuable insights into certain genetic mutations which occur in childhood thyroid tumours and their link ...
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Radical prostatectomy may be a safe option for the treatment of prostate cancer in otherwise healthy men up to age ...
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People who carry a mutation in the melanoma susceptibility gene CDKN2A have a much lower risk of melanoma than has ...
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Defects in immune system cells called T helper cells may lead to diseases characterized by a faulty inflammatory response such ...
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In a study, published in the American Journal of Hypertension, researchers at the University of Michigan ( U-M ) have ...
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Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated in laboratory studies a new treatment for the pediatric eye cancer, ...
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The FDA ( U.S. Food and Drug Administration ) has approved the drug Revlimid ( Lenalidomide ) for the treatment ...
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The US regulatory has approved Femara ( Letrozole), a once-a-day oral aromatase inhibitor, in a new indication as a treatment ...
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A systematic analysis of the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System ( AERS ) has been performed to assess morbidity and ...
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Researchers have devised a strategy to treat tumors by selectively targeting and killing the malignant cells.
A new preclinical study, published ...
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A case study, published in the journal Neurology, has shown that deficiency in vitamin B1 can be a serious complication ...
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Intensive lipid lowering with Atorvastatin 80 mg did not result in a significant reduction in the primary end point of ...
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A trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that Femara ( Letrozole ) demonstrated a significant ...
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The FDA ( U.S. Food & Drug Administration ) approved the use of Tamiflu ( Oseltamivir ) for prevention of ...
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A researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports in the Public Library of Science ( PloS ) ...
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A new gene therapy technique that has shown promise in skin disease and hemophilia might one day be useful for ...
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Records from four European countries show that, on average, survivors of generations with rampant childhood infection - measured by cohort ...
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Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego ( UCSD ), …taking 1,000 international units ...
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A study, published in the JAMA, found that middle-aged adults who have a sibling with cardiovascular disease ( CVD ) ...
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Use of the antiarrhythmic agent Amiodarone ( Cordarone ) is associated with one-half the incidence of atrial tachyarrhythmias following cardiac ...
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A study, published in the JAMA, has found that a diet with a high intake of beta carotene, vitamins C ...
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Patients with moderate-to-severe active ulcerative colitis treated with Infliximab ( Remicade ) at weeks 0, 2, and 6 and every ...
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African-American women living in communities with high poverty rates are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer, even after ...
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In a study, published in the Nature Biotechnology, researchers led by a team of scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ...
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A longitudinal Cornell University study found when young school-age children do not always have enough to eat, their academic development ...
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For many years, researchers thought gene activity was relatively straightforward: genes were transcribed into messenger RNA, which was processed and ...
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine identified a link between a critical cancer pathway and an Epstein-Barr ...
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The presence of only five tiny strands of RNA is enough to clearly distinguish cancerous thyroid tissue from otherwise normal ...
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A Johns Hopkins geneticist and her team have discovered a critical link between the health of stem cells and the ...
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A prospective observational analysis, coordinated by the DCRI ( Duke Clinical Research Institute ), in 387 US hospitals of 30,136 ...
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In experiments with mice, researchers from Johns Hopkins' Institute for Cell Engineering ( ICE ) have discovered the steps required ...
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Craniofacial researchers have developed an animal model that explains how skull malformations occur and how they might be prevented.
Birth ...
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A study, funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a part of the National ...
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