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One Puncture: A Safer Method for IVC Filter Placement

One venous puncture, rather than two, is a safe and effective approach to intravascular ultrasound-guided inferior vena cava filter placement in critically-ill…

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High-Salt Diet and Ulcer Bug Boost Cancer Risk, Study Finds

Now Timothy L. Cover and colleagues of Vanderbilt University show that high dietary salt combined with infection by the ulcer-causing bacterium Helicobacter…

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Study Reveals Hookah Smoke Is Not a Safe Smoking Option

In a new study at UC San Francisco, researchers measuring chemicals in the blood and urine concluded that hookah smoke contains a different – but still harmful…

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Cold Winters Impacting ER+ Breast Cancer Treatment Options

For women diagnosed with a form of breast cancer known as estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, tamoxifen is an essential drug used in the treatment…

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Virus-Like Particles Offer Insights into Brain Tumors

“Current wisdom says that cells are closed entities that communicate through the secretion of soluble signalling molecules. Recent findings indicate that cells…

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Unlocking Immune Power: New Findings from Bonn University

Scientists at the Bonn University Hospital have now deciphered how the molecule can actually stimulate the immune system to combat viruses. The results are now…

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Promising Antiviral Combo Shows Potential Against Novel Coronavirus

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists studying an emerging coronavirus have found that a combination of two licensed antiviral drugs, ribavirin and…

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Despite superbug crisis, progress in antibiotic development 'alarmingly elusive'

Despite the desperate need for new antibiotics to combat increasingly deadly resistant bacteria, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved only…

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Fascinating rhythm: The brain's 'slow waves'

New findings clarify where and how the brain's “slow waves” originate. These rhythmic signal pulses, which sweep through the brain during deep sleep at the…

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Ricebag Innovation: New Treatment for Soft Tissue Injuries

Researchers from the Faculty of Applied Sciences and the Faculty of Sport Sciences at University Teknology MARA collaborated in a study to invent supplementary…

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Mental Vulnerability Linked to Higher Cardiovascular Risk

People deemed to be “mentally vulnerable” are at a significantly increased risk of both fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease, according to results of a…

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Link Between Physical Work and Heart Disease Risk Explored

Two studies presented at this year's EuroPRevent 2013 congress suggest that demanding physical work has a detrimental effect on an individual's risk of…

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Detecting Autism Through Brain Activity: New Method Unveiled

Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of…

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New Drug Combo Targets Leukemia: ABT-737 and BEZ235

In the study, published in the journal Cancer Research, researchers combined the drug ABT-737 with another agent BEZ235. ABT-737 targets proteins known as…

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Radiation Dose Impacts Lesion Size on Chest CT Scans

The study, conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, used a 3D image processing tool to quantitatively measure the volume of the lymph nodes and…

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CT and Serum LDH: Key Survival Predictors in Melanoma

With the hope of predicting patient survival, researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and at the Ohio State University…

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