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Apr 30, 2010
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A UC Davis team of cardiovascular specialists has demonstrated the effectiveness of using stents -- as compared to traditional open-chest surgery -- to repair aortas that are torn as the result of accidents.
Apr 30, 2010
A new meta-analysis reported at the second European Lung Cancer Conference shows that patients with both non-small-cell lung cancer and small-cell lung cancer benefit in terms of overall survival when treated with hyperfractionated or accelerated radiotherapy.
Apr 30, 2010
The first trial of an important new combination therapy of treatment with the chemotherapy drug pemetrexed concurrent with radiation in lung cancer has delivered promising results, French researchers report at the 2nd European Lung Cancer Conference.
Apr 30, 2010
After studying the interactions of human and animal populations in Africa, Kathleen Alexander, associate professor of wildlife science in Virginia Tech's…
Apr 29, 2010
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Low vitamin D levels may be associated with more advanced physical disability and cognitive impairment in persons with multiple sclerosis, studies conducted by neurologists at the University at Buffalo have shown.
Apr 29, 2010
PHILADELPHIA ?- Veterinary vision scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have safely and successfully used a viral vector in targeting a class of…
Apr 29, 2010
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Science is detective work so it was not unexpected that new questions would follow old ones as Indiana University Bloomington nuclear…
Apr 29, 2010
Forget what you know about how diseases are diagnosed -- new research published in the May 2010 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org)…
Apr 29, 2010
The statistic is hard to swallow: in the U.S., nearly one in three children under the age of 18 is overweight or obese, making being overweight the most common childhood medical condition.
Apr 29, 2010
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In a University of Michigan Health System study, 1 out of 3 patients with chronic pain reported using complementary and alternative medicine therapies such as acupuncture and chiropractic visits for pain relief.
Apr 28, 2010
A rare fossil find of two young feathered theropods has revealed that these animals sprouted a much wider range of plumage as they matured than contemporary birds do.
Apr 28, 2010
In an editorial in the May 2010 issue of the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Tulane University malaria researchers urge action to eliminate malaria from Hispaniola, the last island in the Caribbean where the disease occurs regularly.
Apr 28, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC -- A new study released this week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases finds that African children who contract pneumococcus -- a bacterial…
Apr 28, 2010
