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Researchers track down cause of eye mobility disorder

Imagine you cannot move your eyes up, and you cannot lift your upper eyelid. You walk through life with your head tilted upward so that your eyes look straight…

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How Lifestyle Shapes Gut Microbes Across Cultures

The gut microbiota is responsible for many aspects of human health and nutrition, but most studies have focused on “western” populations. An international…

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Chemotherapy Timing Boosts Survival in High-Risk Bladder Cancer

Clinical trials have shown that survival is improved in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are given chemotherapy before surgery. There is less…

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New Mechanism Uncovered for Immune Suppression in Liver Disease

Liver disease, or cirrhosis, is currently the fifth leading cause of death in the UK. Cirrhosis patients are more than five times more likely to pick up…

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Immunotherapy Advances Show Promise Against Liver Cancer

This new therapeutic approach in the treatment of HCC could be very important as without treatment the 5 year survival rate is just 5%. Globally, HCC accounts…

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Viral Hepatitis Surpasses HIV Deaths in Europe: Key Findings

GBD 2010 is the most recent version of a large epidemiological study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and coordinated by the Institute for…

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Chromium Supplements: Can They Lower Blood Sugar Levels?

Approximately 26 percent of the U.S. population has impaired fasting glucose, which is a predisposition for developing type 2 diabetes, and chromium…

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The Long Reach of Alzheimer’s

The aging of the U.S. population has turned the prism to focus on the increasing number of families facing the challenge of providing care for people with…

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Promising New Drug TTT-3002 for Treatment-Resistant Leukemias

Results of the research by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators, described March 6 in the journal Blood, show that two doses a day of TTT-3002…

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Breakthrough Therapy Helps Paraplegics Move Legs Voluntarily

The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology, was funded in part by the Christopher and…

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Snowstorms Increase Risk of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

While preventable, carbon monoxide poisoning is a serious and sometimes fatal condition. Large weather events, such as snowstorms and heavy storms that cause…

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Chikungunya Threatens Americas Amid FIFA World Cup Surge

The risk of a “catastrophic” epidemic in the Americas is boosted by the FIFA World Cup, to be held in Brazil next month, what with people coming in from near…

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Tissue Testing Cuts Reoperation Rates in Breast Cancer Surgery

Unique laboratory testing during breast cancer lumpectomies to make sure surgeons remove all cancerous tissue spares patients the need for a repeat lumpectomy…

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Dark Chocolate Reduces Stress Reactivity in Humans

Research from the Universities of Bern and Zürich and the Bern University Hospital (Inselspital) suggests that a single intake of half a bar of dark chocolate…

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Caffeine against Alzheimer's disease

As part of a German-French research project, a team led by Dr. Christa E. Müller from the University of Bonn and Dr. David Blum from the University of Lille…

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La Jolla Institute Uncovers New Immune Mechanism Against Cancer

A major discovery that brings a new drug target to the increasingly exciting landscape of cancer immunotherapy was published yesterday by researchers from La…

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