Archive: 07/17/2009
HIV: Male circumcision does not shield women
Circumcision of men with HIV does not reduce the risk of infection for women, according to a study published on Friday by The Lancet.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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June video game sales drop sharply
(AP) -- Squeezed by the economic downturn, U.S. retail sales of video games dropped sharply in June, the largest year-over-year decline the industry has seen in nearly nine years.
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Neon blue-tailed tree lizard glides like a feather
Most lacertid lizards are content scurrying in and out of nooks and crannies in walls and between rocks. However, some have opted for an arboreal life style. Neon blue tailed tree lizards (Holaspis guentheri) leap from b ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Google Health to safeguard 'end-of-life' wishes
Google on Thursday invited people to store "end-of-life" wishes at its free online health records management service.
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3 states investigating hep C-infected scrub tech
(AP) -- Hundreds more patients have been advised to get tested for hepatitis C as health officials in two more states launched investigations into an infected Colorado surgery tech who allegedly swapped clean ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 17, 2009 |
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1st US 2-hand transplant patient yearns to feel
(AP) -- The nation's first double hand transplant patient can wriggle his new fingers a litte bit now and grab a tennis ball, but what he really wants to do is be able to feel his wife's hands when he holds ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Energetic bottleneck factors in catastrophic winter seabird losses
It's a terrible sight: hundreds of dead seabirds washed up on the seashore. These catastrophic events occur in the winter and are known as winter wrecks. No one knows why the birds perish, and it is almost impossible to study ...
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Why Winning Athletes Are Getting Bigger
While watching swimmers line up during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, former Olympic swimmer and NBC Sports commentator Rowdy Gaines quipped that swimmers keep getting bigger, with the shortest one in ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Hospital software improves patient satisfaction at discharge from hospital
When hospitalists use discharge communication software, patients and the outpatient doctors who carry out the care have better perceptions of the quality of the discharge process, according to new research published in the ...
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Male sex chromosome losing genes by rapid evolution, study reveals
Scientists have long suspected that the sex chromosome that only males carry is deteriorating and could disappear entirely within a few million years, but until now, no one has understood the evolutionary ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Researchers uncover genetic variants linked to blood pressure in African-Americans
A team led by researchers from the National Institutes of Health today reported the discovery of five genetic variants related to blood pressure in African-Americans, findings that may provide new clues to treating and preventing ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Gene regulates immune cells' ability to harm the body
A recently identified gene allows immune cells to start the self-destructive processes thought to underlie autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis, researchers at Washington University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Nepean Dyspepsia Index applies to functional dyspepsia in China
FD, a common non-organic disease in the world, greatly affects the patient's quality of life. However, treatment of FD is still controversial and no single therapy is uniformly effective, due, in part, to absence of a reliable ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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