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HIV Vaccine Acceptability Among High-Risk Adults in LA

The research – which looked at acceptability of potential future HIV vaccinations among high-risk adults in Los Angeles – shows many factors come into play…

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Sugary Cola Drinks Linked to Higher Gestational Diabetes Risk

Liwei Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, is the lead author of the paper, A…

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Inexpensive Drugs Boost Life Expectancy After Heart Attack

Providing free medications to people after heart attack could add years to patients' lives at a relatively low cost for provincial governments, according to a…

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Heavy metal paradox could point toward new therapy for Lou Gehrig's disease

The results surprised researchers, since lead is also a known risk factor for ALS. This paradox is still not fully understood, and at this point would not form…

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Targeting Pancreatic Tumors: Mesothelin as an Immunotherapy Marker

The marker is mesothelin, a protein normally found on mesothelial cells that line the body cavities. Several types of cancer cells make large amounts of…

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Weight Loss Success: Women With Depression Achieve Goals

Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in…

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Innovative Insights Into Tuberculosis Prevention Strategies

Why do some people who are exposed to tuberculosis not become infected or develop the disease? Dr. Erwin Schurr and his team at the Research Institute from the…

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Study Reveals How Loneliness Spreads Among Social Groups

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.

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Severe Heart Disease Linked to Narrowed Leg Arteries

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) occurs when plaque, a combination of fat, cholesterol and other substances, builds up in the arteries, limiting the flow of…

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Stem Cells Show Promise for Healing Newborn Lungs

Dr. Bernard Thébaud lives in two very different worlds. As a specialist in the Stollery Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal…

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Health Physics Society Urges Action on Indoor Radon Levels

Radon concentration is expressed as the amount of radiation that would be emitted by radon and its decay products in a liter of air; thus the units are…

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Rural Medicare Beneficiaries More Likely to Choose Joint Surgery

Differences in elective joint surgeries between white individuals and minorities in both rural and urban areas were observed, but were less pronounced in rural…

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NC State Study Highlights Need for National HIV Strategy

The research, which analyzed 90,000 HIV patient hospital visits over the course of one year, found that few of the patients had health care through their…

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Implant-Based Cancer Vaccine Eliminates Tumors in Mice

A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists…

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First Effective Therapy for Ménétrier’s Disease Unveiled

Ménétrier's disease causes thickening of the stomach lining, severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, as well as anemia and swelling in the feet and ankles…

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Early Diagnosis Innovations for Ocular Pathologies

Scientists from the UGR have studied the image quality in subjects affected by one of these two pathologies, finding a greater amount of ocular aberrations and…

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