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Bariatric Surgery and Fracture Risk: New Study Insights

The study is based on a review of nearly 100 surgical cases at Mayo spanning 21 years and is being presented today at the Endocrinology Society Annual Meeting…

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Researchers identify structure of bacteria responsible for traveler's diarrhea

The findings, appear in the June issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and have important implications for creating better therapeutics…

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Consumers Confused About Sugars, USDA’s 2010 Guidelines Insight

They also examined how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) considers this sweetener in light of the upcoming 2010 Dietary Guidelines for…

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Cigarette Smoking’s Varied Impact on COPD: New Insights

Cigarette smoking induced COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a disease that results in severe breathing difficulty. According to World Health…

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Association Found Between Parkinson's Disease and Pesticide Exposure in French Farm Workers

Laboratory studies in rats have shown that injecting the insecticide rotenone leads to an animal model of PD and several epidemiological studies have shown an…

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Nanoparticle Targets Cardiovascular Plaque for New Therapies

The treatment is promising for the eventual development of therapies for cardiovascular disease, which is blamed for one third of the deaths in the United…

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Fatty foods — not empty stomach — fire up hunger hormone

The findings, the study's author says, turn the current model about ghrelin on its head and point to a novel stomach enzyme (GOAT) responsible for the ghrelin…

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First Climate Model Predicts Dengue Fever Outbreaks

Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) are the most important vector-borne viral diseases in the World. Around 50-100 million cases appear each…

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Lyme Disease Growth in Canada: The Role of Physicians

Lyme disease is transmitted by ticks which feed on animal or human hosts. It begins with a skin lesion that expands and if untreated, can result in facial…

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Fatigue After Myocardial Infarction: Understanding Patient Insights

The patients who are most fatigued are those who perceive the infarction as a sign of chronic illness, those who experience the illness as difficult to…

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Hydrogen Peroxide Boosts Immune Function, New Insights Revealed

RELEVANCE Prior research has indicated that white blood cells produce hydrogen peroxide to kill bacteria, but never before has it been know to act as a kind of…

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New Arenavirus Linked to Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Africa

Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases of National Health…

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Strategies to Rein in Disease Epidemics Need to be Retooled for Rural Populations

An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario — millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains…

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Genes And Smoking: New Insights Into Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk

Recent genetic studies have revealed several new sites of genes that are risk factors for developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The strongest association with…

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New DNA Stool Test Aims to Detect Digestive Cancers Early

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers account for approximately one in four cancer deaths. While high cure rates can be achieved with early-stage detection for each…

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Ear Wax and Body Odors: New Signals of Breast Cancer Risk

If having malodorous armpits (called osmidrosis) and goopy earwax isn't bad enough, a discovery by Japanese scientists may add a more serious problem for women…

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