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Vitamin D Deficit Doubles Stroke Risk in Whites: Study Insights

Stroke is the nation's third leading cause of death, killing more than 140,000 Americans annually and temporarily or permanently disabling over half a million…

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fMRI Predicts Talk Therapy Success in Children’s Anxiety

A brain scan with functional MRI (fMRI) is enough to predict which patients with pediatric anxiety disorder will respond to “talk therapy,” and so may not need…

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Myocarditis Can Attack Hearts without Warning

James “Jimmy” Armstrong hadn’t missed a “Mac” in 28 years. At 44, he’s one of the youngest “goats” in the Chicago Yacht Club. Sailors receive the designation…

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$40 Billion Committed to Advancing Maternal and Child Health

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Pneumonia Report Card: High-Burden Countries Fall Short

A Pneumonia Report Card released today by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) on behalf of the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia reveals…

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Diabetes Drug May Prevent Cyst Growth in Kidney Disease

Researchers from the schools of Science and Medicine at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic report this month…

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Alcohol’s Hidden Dangers: Beyond Liver Damage Uncovered

Researchers released the latest findings on such negative effects of alcohol during a meeting Nov. 19 of the Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group,…

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Arsenic Treatment Boosts Survival Rates in Leukemia Patients

While arsenic trioxide (As2O3) is known by clinicians to be a highly effective treatment for patients with relapsed APL, its benefit earlier in treatment,…

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Understanding Whooping Cough Spread Through Age Group Contact

The findings appear in the Nov. 12 issue of the journal Science.Thanks to widespread childhood vaccination, whooping cough (pertussis) once seemed to be under…

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Food for Thought: Research on Plant Compound May Help Prevent Nerve-Cell Loss in the Brain

Dr. Rosemarie Booze, the Bicentennial Chair Professor in Behavorial Neuroscience in the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, is isolating liquiritigenin…

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Next Steps for Artificial Pancreas Testing Recommended by JDRF

Diabetes experts at a meeting convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) took the next step in…

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Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Boosts Motor Function in Stroke Patients

Described in today's Online Issue of the journal Neurology, the findings showed that stroke patients who received bihemispheric transcranial direct current…

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NIH Reveals Insights on Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome

IRIS affects certain HIV-infected individuals whose immune systems are heavily damaged by the virus and who have a treated or undiagnosed AIDS-associated…

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ASN Summit Tackles Kidney Care Workforce Challenges

To help address this crisis, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is convening a Summit on the Nephrology Workforce during its upcoming ASN Renal Week 2010…

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Breakthrough Gene Therapy for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome in Kids

In a first application of gene therapy for the treatment of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, blood forming bone marrow cells have been corrected by gene transfer in…

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Long-Term Benefits of Heated Response to Pneumonia Revealed

The findings to be published ahead of print in the European Respiratory Journal, the official scientific publication of the European Respiratory Society,…

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