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New Guidelines For GP’s Revolutionise Treatment For Hyperactivity Disorders

The guidelines will provide authoritative information to health professionals at a time when there is currently great uncertainty amongst GPs on how to treat…

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Understanding How the Cerebellum Automates Our Movements

It regulates the automation of our movements and as a result the cerebrum can perform other tasks. However, how the cerebellum performs this task is not clear….

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Obesity Linked to Rising Esophageal Cancer Rates: U-M Study

According to a new study at the University of Michigan Health System, obese patients who underwent a procedure called transhiatal esophagectomy primarily for…

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Finland Unveils New Mobile App for Effective Weight Control

A Finnish research group with participants from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the University of Tampere and Nokia Research Center has developed a…

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Exploring Psychological Impact of Heart Surgery on Patients

Cases of congenital heart disease (CHD), in both adolescents and adults, have been on the rise for many years. An article in a recent issue of Congenital Heart…

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New Guidelines for Diagnosing and Managing Venous Thromboembolism

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and American College of Physicians (ACP) today released new clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and…

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Innovative Treatments Offer New Hope for Septic Shock Patients

Septic shock can occur if a patient contracts a bacterial infection after surgery. It is the main cause of mortality in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and has up…

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HIV Dementia Rates Surge in Sub-Saharan Africa: Study Insights

An international study led by Johns Hopkins suggests that the rate of HIV-associated dementia is so high in sub-Saharan Africa that HIV dementia along with…

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Health Risks of Nighttime Light: Key Research Findings

The researchers summarized findings of their own investigations and extensive foreign experience, medical statistics and data of experiments carried out on…

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Noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging may help predict who's at risk for a heart attack

These detailed images allowed researchers not only to see macrophage activity, but also to determine whether the activity was unstable and likely to trigger a…

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New Technique Aims to Reduce Back Surgery Failures

Texas researchers believe that they have discovered how to prevent many cases of the most common problem encountered by patients undergoing spine surgery:…

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New Tool Detects Depression in Advanced Cancer Patients

Depression affects 25% of patients with advanced cancer – the stage at which the disease has begun to spread from its original tumour. At this stage,…

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Early Feeding May Lower Liver Issues in Critical Care Patients

A large study published today in the journal Critical Care recommends that clinicians should strictly control calorie intake, start artificial nutrition within…

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New Insights on Northwick Park Trial’s Severe Side Effects

The research shows that stimulating the molecule CD28 on cells that mediate the immune response, known as T cells, can have an adverse effect if these immune…

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Microbes and Man Research Programme evaluated: MICMAN programme scientifically a success

The programme generated a substantial amount of new knowledge. Any direct application of this knowledge was not expected, as the programme ran only for a…

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Healthy 4-year-olds who eat lots of fat weigh less

The study includes nearly 200 healthy four-year-olds in Göteborg and examines both their eating habits and their life styles. Twenty percent of the children…

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