Archive: 07/29/2008
UT Southwestern digestive specialists freeze out esophagus cancer with new therapy
UT Southwestern Medical Center gastroenterologists are using a new method to freeze damaged cells in the esophagus, preventing them from turning cancerous.
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Is it too late to save the great migrations?
Long gone are the days when hundreds of thousands of bison grazed the Great Plains, millions of passenger pigeons darkened the skies while migrating to and from their breeding grounds, and some 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain ...
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Long-lasting effects of the Seveso disaster on thyroid function in babies
Three decades after an accident at a chemical factory in Seveso, Italy in 1976, which resulted in exposure of a residential population to the most dangerous type of dioxin, newborn babies born to mothers living in the contaminated ...
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Protein plays Jekyll and Hyde role in Lou Gehrig's disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by the death of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that control muscle movements from walking ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 29, 2008 |
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New study finds healthy children of Alzheimer patients show early brain changes
Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee have reported that children of Alzheimer's patients who are carriers of a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease have neurological changes that are detectable long ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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South African epidemic of schoolboy sexual abuse
By the age of 18 years, two in every five South African schoolboys report being forced to have sex, mostly by female perpetrators. A new study, reported in BioMed Central's open access journal International Journal for Eq ...
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Sensitive testing reveals drug-resistant HIV with possible consequences for treatment
Drug-resistant HIV at levels too low to be detected by standard tests is not unusual and may contribute to treatment failure, according to research published in PLoS Medicine.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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This old healthy house
The age of your neighborhood may influence your risk of obesity, according to a new study from the University of Utah.
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