Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have successfully prevented the onset of type 1 diabetes in mice prone to developing ...
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Researchers have discovered a new source of stems cells and have used them to create muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, ...
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Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have uncovered a novel pathway by which the ...
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A study on risk factors of new-onset diabetes mellitus following liver transplant found that a history of obesity, impaired fasting ...
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Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH ) Cancer Center have discovered a novel gene mutation associated with Wilms ...
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ICDs, or implantable cardioverter defibrillators, are designed to shock damaged hearts back into rhythm and save patients from sudden cardiac ...
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Individuals with chronic hepatitis C being treated with Interferon ( IFN ) are at risk of developing retinopathy as early ...
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Use of Pexelizumab immediately before and for 24 hours after stent placement or angioplasty for myocardial infarction patients did not ...
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Young adults ( ages 20 to 44 ) with normal lung function who later develop chronic cough and phlegm have ...
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Drugs known as beta blockers help slow nerve impulses traveling through the heart in order to reduce the heart's workload. ...
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A study has quantified the risk of hereditary retinoblastoma survivors developing specific subtypes of soft tissue sarcomas and finds that ...
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A study, published in the journal Neurology, found that a drug used to treat epilepsy has been found to significantly ...
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins and Yale university medical schools have found that a simple blood test to measure uric ...
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People who were abused and neglected during childhood have a higher risk of major depression when they become young adults.
Child ...
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A study found that undernourished women who take a vitamin and mineral supplement while pregnant may be less likely than ...
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A higher level of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) may increase the risk of coronary heart disease ...
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Hypertension is associated with a twofold increased risk of cardiovascular disease ( CVD ) and total mortality. Studies have shown ...
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A randomized, phase III trial found that reducing dietary fat intake may decrease the chance of a breast cancer recurrence ...
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The myelodysplastic syndromes ( MDS ) are a group of diseases in which the bone
marrow loses its ability to produce ...
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Acute myeloid leukemia ( AML ) can be cured, but only in about 20-30 percent of patients, depending on a ...
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Stopping antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients from time to time could reduce the side effects and costs of the treatment.
Though ...
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The drug Topotecan ( Hycamtin ) does not increase survival for ovarian cancer patients when used with standard chemotherapy in ...
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Risk factors for stroke should be used to determine whether anti-clotting therapy is given to people with atrial fibrillation, according ...
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A study, led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) has discovered that, whether depressed patients ...
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Researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, have shown that ginseng, one of the most widely used herbs in traditional Chinese medicine, ...
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Pulmonary vein antrum isolation causes atrial fibrillation to regress in the vast majority of patients with congestive heart failure.
PABA CHF, ...
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A study offers intriguing insight into the possibility of postponing hypertension among the 59 million Americans whose blood pressure is ...
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The FDA ( Food and Drug Administration ) has approved Velcade ( Bortezomib ) for the treatment of patients with ...
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An analysis by researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute ( DCRI ) found that a new brain chemical test ...
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A research suggests that Lithium and other drugs that inhibit a particular enzyme, GSK-3 beta, should be used with caution ...
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A diet high in carbohydrates but low on the glycemic index, which measures the impact of carbohydrates on blood glucose ...
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A prospective population-based study has found that higher estrogen levels in older men are associated with an increased risk of ...
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Men transmit multiple sclerosis ( MS ) to their children 2.2 times more often than women in families where the ...
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An analysis by researchers from University of California Davis, UCSF, the University of Pittsburgh and McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, ...
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The FDA ( Food and Drug Administration ) has approved Januvia ( Sitagliptin ), the first diabetes treatment approved in ...
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Older adults who consume one to seven alcoholic beverages a week may live longer and have a reduced risk for ...
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Onset of type 2 diabetes before age 20 in a population of American Indians is associated with a substantially increased ...
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A test that measures the generation of thrombin, involved with blood clotting, can help determine whether patients who have experienced ...
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Use of the 16-row multidetector computed tomography ( CT ) scan to detect narrowing of coronary arteries may result in ...
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Researchers from UCSD ( University of California - San Diego ) School of Medicine, the Center for Neurologic Study and ...
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For the first time in large, multicenter clinical studies, a therapy has been shown to significantly lower the risk of ...
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An enzyme known to be critical for the repair of damaged cells and the maintenance of cellular energy may be ...
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Insufficient evidence exists to support the use of complementary and alternative therapies to relieve menopause-related symptoms.
Twenty-five million women will go ...
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Women who take a combination of Estrogen and Testosterone to treat the symptoms of menopause may have an increased risk ...
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Imatinib ( Gleevec / Glivec ) can be dangerous to the heart. Not only that, but other similarly based drugs ...
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The results of a 5-1/2 year-long trial of more than 10,000 postmenopausal women with a history of heart disease or ...
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Some antitumoral drugs can damage the heart, but a long-term follow-up of children and young adults who had Doxorubicin ( ...
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Antibiotics should not be given to patients with acute purulent rhinitis has concluded a study.
General practitioners often prescribe antibiotics for ...
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Data from a 15-year period show that the prevalence of a particular type of heart failure -- heart failure with ...
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A study by University of California ( UC ) Irvine researchers found that transplanting human embryonic stem cells does not ...
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An Italian study of men with erectile dysfunction and coronary artery disease ( CAD ) has shown for the first ...
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One study, a meta-analysis of 59 trials, found little evidence that diet is associated with survival or prognosis. The other ...
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Women age 45 years or older who experience migraines with aura are at a higher risk for myocardial infarction, ischemic ...
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Since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy ( HAART ), there has been a substantial reduction of opportunistic infections ...
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A study, published in the JAMA, found that women with mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes can significantly reduce ...
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Eating fish frequently may be associated with decreased chances of developing age-related macular degeneration ( AMD ), while smoking nearly ...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully blocked the advance of retinal degeneration in mice with a form of retinitis pigmentosa ...
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Researchers know that children of women who smoke during pregnancy can develop hearing-related cognitive deficits. For the first time, researchers ...
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A team of researchers with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ( NHLBI ) of the National Institutes of ...
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The combination of a certain genetic variation, along with inflammatory factors and smoking, significantly increases the risk of the vision ...
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Drugs that block the activity of an enzyme might hold a key to treating chronic and severe disorders such as ...
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Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston and their colleagues have isolated rare cancer stem cells that cause ...
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The weight loss medication Sibutramine ( Meridia / Reductil ), when combined with behavior therapy, allowed hundreds of very obese ...
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Researchers found that being overweight at age 18 is associated with an increased risk of premature death in younger and ...
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Extremely obese patients who undergo gastric bypass procedures may have fewer complications, a greater reduction in obesity-related diseases, more weight ...
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Researchers at UCLA ( University of California - Los Angeles ) have unraveled a mysterious condition that causes congenital diarrhea ...
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Researchers have identified one of the proteins that may be responsible for causing food allergies, which could lead to the ...
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that chronic Ibuprofen ( Advil, Motrin ) therapy given after ...
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A study by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center found that when mice with ovarian ...
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Trends analysis of drug poisoning deaths has helped explain a national epidemic of overdose deaths in the USA that began ...
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Researchers have found that genetic alterations originally identified in people suffering from a rare disease may also be an important ...
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic have found that women who develop dementia experience a decline in weight as many as 10 ...
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Researchers, at Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center, have identified a growth factor called proepithelin, with a crucial ...
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People who have been treated for colon cancer can substantially reduce the risk that the disease will return and improve ...
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Researchers have linked a recently discovered gene to a rare nervous system disease called hereditary spastic paraplegia, for which there ...
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Mice receiving just one therapeutic dose of radiation lost up to 39% of the spongy portion of their inner bone, ...
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People who live alone double their risk of serious heart disease as those who live with a partner. This includes ...
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High humidity, even in a relatively mild climate, boosts the risk of a heart attack among the elderly.
The researchers analysed ...
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The calibre of the small veins and arteries in the eye may be a good indicator of a middle aged ...
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have isolated a new source of adult stem cells that appear ...
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A study, published in the JAMA, found that older adults who expend more energy through any daily activity, including non-exercise ...
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Weight gain, particularly after menopause, is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in women, according to an article ...
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A 20-year study of women in the Nurses' Health Study has shown that Type 2 diabetes is associated with primary ...
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and the University of Colorado School of Medicine in ...
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The risk for developing the tissue abnormalities, or lesions, that typically precede cervical cancer is much higher for women infected ...
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Researchers studied elderly male twins and found that those who smoke or have a history of smoking had an increased ...
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Patients with Parkinson disease can be apathetic without being depressed, and apathy may be a core feature of the disease.
The ...
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Screening for levels of C-reactive protein and other compounds recently found to be associated with coronary heart disease may not ...
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Women who are non-smokers, exercise regularly, have a healthy diet, including moderate alcohol consumption, and otherwise live a healthy lifestyle ...
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Early signs of the development of Alzheimer's disease can be seen in the cerebrospinal fluid of middle-aged adults who are ...
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Researchers at UCSF ( University of California - San Francisco ) have found that the spread of melanoma can be ...
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An antihistamine often recommended to parents whose infants do not sleep through the night may not be effective in reducing ...
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An analysis that compares two common inhalers for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ) finds that ...
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The use of Acetylsalicylic acid ( Aspirin ) and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS, may reduce the risk of ...
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Researchers, who have been investigating new therapies for hot flushes for several years, report in the Obstetrics and Gynecology journal ...
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A study has found that drinking an eight ounce glass of pomegranate juice daily increased by nearly four times the ...
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A study, published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, found that men who receive radiation therapy for prostate cancer ...
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Research at the University of California, San Diego ( UCSD ) School of Medicine shows that liver cancer is likely ...
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Electromagnetic fields from cell phones excite the brain cortex adjacent to it, with potential implications for individuals with epilepsy, or ...
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Three variations of a human gene appear to impact human tuberculosis susceptibility, providing insight into why some patients infected with ...
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