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The Medical Minute: Doctor, why are my fingers curling up?

Dupuytren's (pronounced DOO-pwee-trens) disease or contracture is an abnormal, progressive thickening of the fascia of the hand (the layer underneath the skin). The disease is inherited, and a patient’s children have ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lake Michigan shipwreck found after 112 years

(AP) -- A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

To predict atherosclerosis, follow the disturbed blood flow

A new animal model of atherosclerosis has allowed researchers to identify a host of genes turned on or off during the initial stages of the process, before a plaque appears in the affected blood vessel.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers uncover novel genetic pathway responsible for triggering vascular growth

Most solid cancers can't grow beyond a limited size without an adequate blood supply and supporting vascular network. Because of this, cancer researchers have sought to understand how a tumor's vascular network develops—and, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 04, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bailout stenting successful treatment for infants with constricted aortas

Cardiac interventionalists and surgeons at University Clinic in Leuven, Belgium have achieved successful stent implantation and follow-up coarctectomy in premature infants suffering from aortic coarctation. Full findings ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Growth factor hit by cancer drugs also protects heart

A growth factor that is a common target of cancer drugs also plays an important role in the heart's response to stress, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report online this week in the Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful

More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cataract surgery does not appear associated with worsening of age-related macular degeneration

Age-related macular degeneration does not appear to progress at a higher rate among individuals who have had surgery to treat cataract, contrary to previous reports that treating one cause of vision loss worsens the other, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More infants surviving pre-term births results in higher rates of eye problems

As more extremely pre-term infants survive in Sweden, an increasing number of babies are experiencing vision problems caused by abnormalities involving the retina, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mediterranean diet associated with reduced risk of depression

Individuals who follow the Mediterranean dietary pattern -- rich in vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains and fish -- appear less likely to develop depression, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Ge ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1


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