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Older adults who experience osteoporotic fracture have increased risk of death for 5-10 years
Women and men age 60 years or older who have a low-trauma osteoporotic fracture have an increased risk of death for the following 5 to 10 years, compared to the general population, and those who experience another fracture ...
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Subset of self-destructive immune cells may selectively drive diabetes
New research identifies a distinctive population of immune cells that may play a key role in the pathogenesis of diabetes. The research, published by Cell Press and available online in the April 21st issue of Immunity, sheds ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 21, 2011 |
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High salt diets damaging Australian men's sex lives
While the adverse affects of high blood pressure on men's sex lives is clear, the direct link between salt and sex is yet to be proven. There is, however, a huge body of evidence showing that salt is the main cause of high ...
Mar 24, 2011 |
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An extra 5 years of life an unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment
Australian clinical researchers have noted an extraordinary and unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment – that people taking bisphosphonates are not only surviving well, better than people without osteoporosis, ...
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Feb 02, 2011 |
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Neuroscience research may help patients recover from brain injury
New neuroscience research by life scientists from UCLA and Australia may potentially help people who have lost their ability to remember due to brain injury or disease.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 05, 2010 |
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MicroRNA to combat cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the University of California-San Francisco have found a new way to kill cancer cells, opening the ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Simple diagnostic tool predicts Type 2 diabetes in Southeast Asians
Australian and Vietnamese researchers have estimated the current prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in Vietnam, and have developed a simple tool for identifying individuals at high risk.
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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Western food fuelling SE Asia diabetes boom: researchers
The growing popularity of Western junk food is fuelling a diabetes boom across Southeast Asia, Australian researchers warned on Wednesday.
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Weight gain when there's a family history of type 2 diabetes
In the first study of its type, Australian researchers have shown that healthy people with a genetic predisposition to Type 2 diabetes gain more weight overeating over the short term than their non-genetically-prone counterparts.
May 10, 2010 |
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Study: Growth hormone can aid athletic performance
(AP) -- Researchers are reporting the first scientific evidence that a hormone banned in sports can boost athletic performance.
May 03, 2010 |
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The remarkable effects of fat loss on the immune system
Australian scientists have shown for the first time that even modest weight loss reverses many of the damaging changes often seen in the immune cells of obese people, particularly those with Type 2 diabetes.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 20, 2010 |
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