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| Aromatase inhibitors, a type of hormone therapy used to treat advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women, result in a small but significant increase in overall survival when compared to other hormone... |
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MBF Foundation is funding a two-year McComb Foundation study that aims to further our understanding of scar-less healing and the development of treatments tailored to individual patient needs.
Led... |
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| Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), the world's leading voluntary health organization supporting eye research, awarded 90 grants totaling $9.12 million in 2006 for research into the causes, treatment... |
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| UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) researchers have developed a method to increase bone density in mice, a development that might have future benefit for humans in the treatment of osteoporosis... |
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| When people think of facelifts,
images of aging Hollywood stars with their faces pulled as tight as their
red carpet gowns might come to mind. In fact, patients considering cosmetic
surgery may be... |
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| Regular exercise is recommended for middle-aged and older people, but the effect of exercise on the development of osteoarthritis (OA) in older people is unclear, especially if they are overweight. Some... |
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Nearly 80% of all long-term care is provided in-home, most of it by family members at no cost, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The care that "29 million Americans provide for free amounts to an estimated... |
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| Walking while holding a conversation and writing a letter whilst thinking about its content: we perform many actions without even thinking about them. This is possible due to the cerebellum. It regulates... |
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A McMaster University researcher is alerting men and their doctors that osteoporosis isn't just a woman's problem but that the bone-wasting disease can severely afflict them, too.
To overcome... |
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| A clinical predictor of hip fracture and mortality risk, the Fracture and Mortality Index (FRAMO Index) is practical for routine use in the primary care setting according to this population-based cohort... |
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| UroToday.com- Without randomized trials of treatment vs. observation in elderly men with prostate cancer (CaP), it has been the assumption that these men will succumb to other causes. According to a report... |
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| Because of
increasingly demanding jobs, hectic daily schedules, participating in
recreational activities, and caring for children, grandchildren, and
elderly parents, back pain is becoming a common... |
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The Wall Street Journal on Monday examined how a "special trust" operated by the United Steelworkers of America since 2002 "offers a glimpse of what to expect" in the event that General Motors or other... |
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| All tissues, sick and healthy alike, need a blood supply to survive and grow. The key to many medical problems, like preventing tumour development, is therefore to obstruct the spread of the blood vessels... |
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| To address the growing wave of ageing citizens in Europe and around the world, Intel Corporation, in conjunction with the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Ireland, today announced a multi-million-dollar... |
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| The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and American College of Physicians (ACP) has released new clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism (VTE)... |
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| The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) announced today that is has officially launched its new website for US patients and families, www.getpalliativecare.org. The site is designed to provide patients... |
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The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined "a boom in vaccine discovery and development" prompted by advances in technology, "increased funding and higher profits." In 2006, vaccine manufacturers introduced... |
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| Medivation, Inc.
(Amex: MDV) today announced that results of its Phase 2 efficacy study of
Dimebon(TM) in Alzheimer's disease will be presented at the 8th
International Conference on Alzheimer's... |
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| Oregon Health & Science University, with help from Intel Corp., is moving into the next phase of a research program developing and testing new technologies to address the challenge of aging successfully... |
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