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New Method Helps Doctors Detect Hard-to-Diagnose Prostate Cancer

The new study by researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, published in the Journal of Urology, shows that PSA can be a much…

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New Model Predicts Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury

A new model based on motor scores at admission and early imaging studies may allow clinicians to predict functional outcomes and guide decision-making for…

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Kids and Car Safety: Why Restraint Use Is Alarmingly Low

Despite the fact that car crashes are the leading cause of death for children older than three years in the U.S. and send more than 140,000 children to the…

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Color-coded labels improve healthy food choices in employees from all backgrounds

A program designed to encourage more healthful food choices through simple color-coded labels and the positioning of items in display cases was equally…

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Brain Signals Reveal Fast-Acting Antidepressant Responders

Scientists have discovered a biological marker that may help to identify which depressed patients will respond to an experimental, rapid-acting antidepressant….

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Understanding Stroke Risks in Cardiac Catheterization

When a patient undergoes a cardiac catheterization procedure such as a balloon angioplasty, there's a slight risk of a stroke or other neurological…

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New Mechanism Uncovered in Cancer Treatment Resistance

Developing resistance to chemotherapy is a nearly universal, ultimately lethal consequence for cancer patients with solid tumors – such as those of the breast,…

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White Blood Cells Linked to Insulin Resistance: New Findings

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say neutrophils, an abundant type of white blood cell typically tasked with attacking…

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New target for treating diabetes and obesity

Studying mice, they found that when the target protein was disabled, the animals became more sensitive to insulin and were less likely to get fat even when…

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Exploring the Link Between Color Perception and Depression

In language and arts depression is associated with darkness and grey and black colours. Everything looks grey when people feel blue.There might be an empirical…

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Caffeine may ease Parkinson's symptoms

This is the finding of a study conducted at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) that was recently published in Neurology®,…

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CWRU Researchers Identify Gene Halting Cancer Cell Growth

“We have identified a new direction for cancer therapy and the new direction is leading us to a reduction in toxicity in cancer therapy, compared with…

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New Therapeutic Target Identified for Aggressive Breast Cancer

The study led by Lynne-Marie Postovit of Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry looked at a protein called Nodal that is primarily found in…

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Two Drugs Show Promise Against Kidney, Breast Cancer

In the online issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, they report that two drugs, romidepsin and decitabine, work cooperatively to activate a potent tumor…

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Early HIV Treatment Boosts Earning Potential, Study Finds

The finding, led by Harsha Thirumurthy, Ph.D., a health economist at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, not only could mean greater earning…

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New Insights on Lung Cancer Mutations and Treatment Approaches

The investigators found that the protein encoded by this gene, called EPHA3, normally inhibits tumor formation, and that loss or mutation of the gene – as…

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