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New Chemotherapy Combo Shows Side Effects in Early Breast Cancer

Professor Gunter von Minckwitz, Chairman of the German Breast Group, Neu-Isenberg, Germany, and his team set out to look at the use of the combination in early…

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Mental Stress Lowers Heart Blood Flow in Gene Variation Patients

“Searching for the presence of this gene may be one way to better identify patients who are at an increased risk for the phenomenon,” said David S. Sheps,…

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New Cancer Therapies Show Promise in Latest Clinical Trials

Clinical researchers at Scottsdale Healthcare and TGen today announced the results of two clinical trials that show promise for patients battling cancer. The…

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Hereditary Breast Cancer: Mastectomy’s Cost and Benefits

The mastectomy option appears to give an excellent result in avoiding breast cancer, with a remaining risk of less than 1%, Dr. Reinie Kaas, from the Surgical…

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Incorporating health and safety concepts in building plans reduces accident rates and costs

Workplace accidents are currently a great human, social and economic problem. Within the industrial sector, the construction industry has one of the highest…

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New Life-Sized Wound Model Called ‘George’

According to the Tissue Viability Team in the University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, around 200,000 individuals in the UK will have a chronic wound at…

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Obese women disadvantaged in both breast cancer treatment and diagnosis

Dr. Evandro de Azambuja and colleagues at the Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium, told the conference that his work, which involved 2887 patients,…

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Research To Probe Prospective Memory

In everyday life, people often have to remember to do things at a particular time in the future like remembering to take medication, make phone calls, switch…

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Older Epilepsy Drugs Ineffective Against Brain Tumor Seizures

“There has always been a question about whether it is worth using antiepileptic medications to protect against seizures in patients with a brain tumor even…

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Calorie Restriction Diet Cuts Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Prevention of weight gain with a restricted calorie diet sharply reduced the development of pancreatic lesions that lead to cancer in preclinical research…

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Celebrex-Lipitor Combo Shows Promise Against Prostate Cancer

Researchers at Rutgers’ Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy have shown that administering a combination of the widely used drugs Celebrex (celecoxib, a…

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Discovery of differences in heart's precursor cells may advance treatment options

But now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine have shown that not all heart cells are created equal; in response…

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Breakthrough Blood Test Identifies Chronic Sinusitis Markers

They used a sophisticated research tool that rapidly assesses expression of large numbers of proteins and found among 96 chronic sinusitis patients a profile…

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Psychiatric drug ads “frequently misleading”

Psychologist Glen Spielmans of Metropolitan State University, St Paul, Minnesota, and colleagues analysed adverts aimed at medical professionals in four…

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Breast Cancer’s Invasive Power: Latent Traits from Tumor Cells

The results were astounding: tumour aggressiveness seems to be determined from the very first tumour cells and the biological diversity observed in invasive…

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New Animal Model Reveals Insights Into Machado Joseph Disease

Machado Joseph disease (MJD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with deposits of an aberrant form of the protein ataxin-3 in the brain. The disease is…

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