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Dentists warn patients about 'meth mouth'

Published in: Internet News Search: dentist August 1st, 2005

Dentists warn patients about 'meth mouth'

When children drop in for a dental checkup or cleaning, Dr. Gail Redman of Sikeston, Mo., usually ends the appointment with her familiar reminder to brush and floss regularly.

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Lexington dentist helped ID bodies down South

Published in: Internet News Search: dentist October 16th, 2005

Lexington dentist helped ID bodies down South

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Published in: Internet News Search: dentist December 4th, 2005

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First person: Iron gran's life and last moments - The Guardian 03/12/05

Sophie Radice reluctantly agreed to 'do the right thing' and sign her grandmother's living will, so she might die with dignity. It was a difficult decision, but one her family did not regret

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Joanna Moorhead on one baby's gentle arrival via 'natural' caesarean - The Guardian 03/12/05

A British doctor is challenging convention to pioneer the 'natural' caesarean. Joanna Moorhead watched one baby's slow and gentle arrival

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The day the sky fell in - The Guardian 03/12/05

Laurie was just 13 when he was killed by a rare and aggressive cancer. His father, Matthew Engel, describes losing his best pal

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Mil Millington: Scientific wristwatch - The Guardian 03/12/05

I've got an epiphany on my wrist. The Oregon Scientific wristwatch incorporates various exercise-related features, such as training programmes, a Body Mass Index calculator and even - with the included chest belt - a pulse monitor. Now, I'm not as wheezingly frail as you might imagine, but I've never seen myself as the apotheosis of the Olympian ideal either. Yet, it turns out, my resting pulse is an impressive 53bpm, my recovery time is splendid, I have a great BMI and my Fitness Index is enviable.

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Tagged, and ready for bed - The Guardian 03/12/05

Tagged, and ready for bed In the States they've been at it for years. But are British parents really ready to use satellite technology to keep tabs on their children? Lucy Atkins investigates

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Lifeline for victims of sexual aggression - The Guardian 03/12/05

The latest of our reports looks at Burundi, where a clinic is helping to counter the HIV threat posed by rape

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A trip to the far side of madness - The Guardian 03/12/05

When Clancy Sigal first met soon-to-be 'celebrity shrink' RD Laing in the 1960s, he was like a breath of fresh air. But then Sigal broke down, and Laing reneged on a solemn promise ...

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P57. Enough to put you off your food - The Guardian 03/12/05

The story goes that, when the San tribe of southern Africa felt hungry but had no food around, they would chew on a plant called the hoodia gordonii. A few mouthfuls of this bitter-tasting succulent later, their hunger pangs would mysteriously disappear. Very soon, the plant will begin its journey to a plate near you. The remarkable appetite-suppressing quality of hoodia has attracted the attention of Unilever and, early next year, a clinical trial will begin on the active ingredient, a combination of molecules codenamed p57.

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Shorts: Going nowhere fast - The Guardian 03/12/05

Is it a treadmill? Is it a stepper? No, it's TreadClimber - and it's winging its way from the States as I write. Like most stairclimbers, the steps move up and down, but the TreadClimber's steps are moving belts, like mini treadmills, so you travel forwards at the same time. According to research at Adelphi University in New York, the TreadClimber burns more calories than either of its parents - however, the maximum speed used in the study was 3mph, which I'd describe as funereal rather than brisk. Still, it does offer a low-impact aerobic workout - and subjects burned an average of 450 calories in half an hour on the toughest setting.

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Ukrainian salt mines reinvented as a haven for asthma sufferers - The Guardian 03/12/05

In Soviet times a spell in the salt mines was the fate of dissidents and criminals. But today the glittering tunnels below Solotvyno in western Ukraine have been transformed into a more benign destination: a haven for people with asthma and other respiratory diseases.

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Emma Mitchell: Is suntan lotion made of vinegar and olive oil safe? - The Guardian 03/12/05

While holidaying in the south of France, I was told by locals to replace my suntan lotion with a mixture of one part vinegar and two parts extra-virgin olive oil. This I have done with great success. Is it a safe way to tan?

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Your seven most common fitness questions - The Guardian 03/12/05

Weekend's exercise expert Joanna Hall deals with the problems that bother you most

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Anger as world health body bans recruitment of smokers - The Independent 03/12/05

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has provoked a furious row by announcing that people who smoke will automatically be banned from employment with the organisation.

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Waiting time failures for big two cancers blamed on health boards - The Times 03/12/05

MINISTERS are struggling to meet their two-month target for the treatment of all cancer patients, according to figures which show that waiting times in two key areas are on the rise.

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Care of deathbed patients is criticised - The Times 03/12/05

SURGEONS in Scotland have urged the National Health Service to improve care for patients who are close to death, saying that many are left to die on emergency or surgical wards because of a lack of hospices and poor palliative care.

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China to 'tidy up' trade in executed prisoners' organs - The Times 03/12/05

CHINA broke its silence yesterday to admit for the first time that the organs of executed prisoners were sold to foreigners for transplant.

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The maternal minefield - The Times 03/12/05

Why can’t mothers and daughters get along? Two new books could help to unravel the mystery, says Celia Dodd

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The geisha at the gathering - The Times 03/12/05

In her second column on coping with tricky family figures, super gran Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall explains how to keep your cool with an exasperating sister-in-law

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The Rolls-Royce of spas - The Times 03/12/05

Old fashioned? Maybe. But Janice Turner feels relaxed basking in the RAC’s refreshing formality

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Slimming? It's easy peasy - The Times 03/12/05

The seven day GL diet: lose weight in time for Christmas the healthy way. In this extract from Nigel Denby's diet book, we show you how

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GI diet: recipes - The Times 03/12/05

Loads of goodness — these GL dishes are quick to make and packed with flavour. From fresh avocado and prawns to sizzling salmon and pesto, this is fast food that will keep you going all day

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Taking the long view: Yoko Ono - The Times 03/12/05

Yoko Ono, 72, hopes science will give us eternal life — so diets are out, double-cream indulgence is in

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Stem cell find may lead to prostate cancer cure - The Telegraph 03/12/05

A new way of inhibiting prostate cancer cells has been found that could prevent the disease returning after treatment.

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Man sacked after being caught smoking at home - The Telegraph 03/12/05

A German company has sacked one of its employees for smoking at home after hiring a detective to catch him in the act.

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The secret of eternal youth - The Telegraph 02/12/05

The Japanese diet lets you live longer and look younger, says Melissa Whitworth

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Disease warning in earthquake zone - Daily Mail 03/12/05

Doctors struggling with a constant flow of patients in a quake-ravaged Pakistani city have warned that the number of sick could swell dramatically in the coming weeks, as harsh weather creates conditions for pneumonia and other illnesses to spread.

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Surgery 'delayed to reduce debt' - Daily Mail 03/12/05

Hospitals have been told to delay operations to reduce debts faced by primary care trusts, it has emerged.

Operations go-slow forced by NHS crisis - The Guardian 03/12/05
Surgery delayed to save money - The Times 03/12/05
5bn injection can't lift NHS debt - The Times 03/12/05
'A dire financial position' - The Times 03/12/05
Hospitals admit surgery 'go-slow' - BBC Health News 03/12/05

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The dieters destined for failure - Daily Mail 02/12/05

It's something that most dieters will have experienced - shedding all those pounds only to pile them all back on later.

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Cartoon boosts 'Elfy' food for kids - Daily Mail 02/12/05

Children who are reluctant to eat their greens may change their minds following the launch of a new cartoon.

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A tipple may not be good for you - Daily Mail 02/12/05

Drinking two glasses of wine a day may not be such good medicine after all.

Alcohol's health benefits doubted - BBC Health News 02/12/05

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Crunch time for NHS dentists - Daily Mail 02/12/05

Dentists must consider their new contracts and decide whether NHS dentistry has a future, leaders of the profession has said.

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Face transplant woman says 'Merci' - Daily Mail 02/12/05

The first post-surgery words of a woman who underwent the world's first partial face transplant were "thank you," and she has since been able to eat strawberries and chocolate, her doctors revealed.

Face op patient 'said thank you' - BBC Health News 02/12/05
First picture of woman given a face transplant - Daily Mail 03/12/05
Six months to feel her new face - The Telegraph 03/12/05
Face transplant woman 'owes her life to dog after suicide attempt' - The Guardian 03/12/05
French surgeons defend ethics of face transplant - The Independent 03/12/05
Woman with a new face looked in the mirror and said 'Merci' - The Times 03/12/05
Face transplant woman is eating and talking - Reuters 02/12/05
Donor for world's first face transplant had hanged herself - The Independent 04/12/05
Revealed: tragic death of woman who donated her face - The Sunday Times 04/12/05
'They gave me back my face' - The Sunday Times 04/12/05
Face transplant woman 'doing well' - Daily Mail 04/12/05

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Hospital wait list 'at record low' - Daily Mail 02/12/05

The number of people waiting for an NHS operation in England has fallen below 800,000 for the first time.

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Warning over Scots waiting times - Daily Mail 02/12/05

Scottish health minister Andy Kerr has issued a tough warning to NHS boards that not enough is being done to cut cancer waiting times.

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Charges fear over NHS reform - Daily Mail 02/12/05

The reform programme currently being rolled out across the NHS could lead to patients being charged for care, experts have warned.

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World health body gives up smokers - Daily Mail 02/12/05

The World Health Organisation has stopped hiring smokers as part of its commitment to controlling tobacco use, a spokesman has said.

Health agency refuses to hire any more smokers - The Guardian 03/12/05

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'We want to empower patients' - BBC Health News 03/12/05

Dr Tim Kenny and wife Beverley are firm believers in giving their patients as many PILS as they want and need.

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Launch of child disability guide - BBC Health News 03/12/05

A guide aimed at improving the care of children with disabilities has been launched by the government.

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X-rays predict bird flu 'toll' - BBC Health News 03/12/05

Doctors say they can predict how deadly a case of bird flu might be by looking at an infected person's chest x-ray.

X-rays show shared symptoms among bird flu victims - Reuters 02/12/05
Avian Flu, X-Rays Predict Patient's Survival Chances - Medical News Today 04/12/05

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Doctor stays on medical register - BBC Health News 02/12/05

A professor who gave job references for disgraced surgeon Richard Neale is to keep his place on the medical register.

GMC member guilty of misconduct - The Independent 03/12/05

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Carers 'missing 750m benefits' - BBC Health News 02/12/05

People who give up work to care for relatives or friends are missing out on benefits worth nearly 750m, a campaigning charity says.

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Plans to boost medical research - BBC Health News 02/12/05

Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced plans to boost research and development in the NHS.

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Your Eyes Decide Where Your Foot Lands During Mid-swing When You Are Walking - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Visual information enables walkers to adjust their step while their foot is in mid-swing - such fine control helps particularly when walking over rough terrain Placing your foot accurately is a complicated process. If something moves where you plan to place your foot then you can adjust your step while your foot is swinging through. Experts thought previously that if nothing changed in the path, or in your plans, then the place where your foot will land is fixed before it even leaves the ground. In this case, you would make no use of immediate visual information during each step.

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Gum Disease And Heart Disease, New Link, Virginia Commonwealth University - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found that changes in the plasma lipoprotein profile of patients with severe periodontitis - a condition characterized by chronic infection and inflammation of the gums - may contribute to these patients' elevated risk for heart disease and stroke.

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Supplement Diet With Leucine Prevents Muscle Loss Linked To Ageing - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Muscle in adults is constantly being built and broken down. As young adults we keep the two processes in balance, but when we age breakdown starts to win. However, adding the amino acid leucine to the diet of old individuals can set things straight again. This is the finding of research performed by Lydie Combaret, Dominique Dardevet and colleagues at the Human Nutrition Research Centre of Auvergne, INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

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Tracking The Memory Trace - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Memory formation follows a dynamic pattern, allowing for retrieval from different areas of the brain, depending on when an organism needs to remember, said a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine.

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Viewing Immune Cells At Work Helps Clarify How T Cells Control Autoimmunity - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Using a new form of microscopy to penetrate living lymph nodes, UCSF scientists have for the first time viewed immune cells at work, helping clarify how T cells control autoimmunity.

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Iron Particles And MRI Could Replace Biopsies To Track Stem Cell Therapy And Deploy Stents - Medical News Today 03/12/05

In a series of experiments in animals, researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully used a technique that tracks mesenchymal stem cells via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor the progress of the cells in repairing tissue scarred by heart attack.

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Radiation Better Than Surgery At Preserving Speech For Patients With Head And Neck Cancer - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Patients suffering from advanced head and neck cancer affecting their larynx can maintain vocal function by undergoing a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy instead of surgery to remove the larynx, according to a study published in the December 1, 2005, issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.

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Breast CT Is More Comfortable Than Mammography And Maybe More Accurate, Research Shows - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Breast CT, an investigational technology for early breast cancer detection, may be better than mammography at detecting breast lesions and is much more comfortable for women, researchers from the University of California, Davis reported today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.

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Glimpse Into The Workings Of The "motor" That Opens And Closes Hatchways That Allow Nutrients To Pass Into Our Cells - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Scientists have a tough time visualizing the tiny hatchways that allow nutrients to pass into our cells, but a group of Purdue University biologists may have found the next best thing: a glimpse into the workings of the "motor" that opens and closes them.

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Heparin Antibody Risks After Heart Surgery - Medical News Today 03/12/05

New research suggests that patients who develop antibodies to the anti-clotting drug heparin nearly double their risk of death or serious complication after heart surgery.

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Cortisol Levels Are Positively Associated With Pup-feeding Rates In Male Meerkats - Medical News Today 03/12/05

We investigated the biological basis of caring behaviour in wild groups of cooperatively breeding meerkats, a species in which adult 'helpers' provide care for the offspring of a dominant breeding pair.

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Mother Jones Timeline Of FDA Action Regarding EC Applications, USA - Medical News Today 03/12/05

"Timeline of Emergency Contraception and FDA," Mother Jones: The timeline provides links to articles from February 1997 -- when FDA approved the first EC regimen -- to a current Center for Reproductive Rights lawsuit challenging FDA's indefinite deferment of an application from Barr Laboratories to allow its EC Plan B to be sold without a doctor's prescription to women ages 17 and older (Friedman, Mother Jones, 11/29).

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Genetic Diversity In Butterflies - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Global climates are warming and some species are expanding their distributions to track these changes. We examined three British butterfly species in order to investigate the consequences of these range expansions on their genetic diversity. Overall, the two expanding species had lower genetic diversity than a non-expanding species.

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Selection For Protection In An Ant-plant Mutualism: Host Sanctions, Modularity, And A Principal-agent Game - Medical News Today 03/12/05

How does one species get another species to do what it wants? For example, how do plants convince some animals to carry away seeds?

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Multiple Feedback Loop Design In The Tryptophan Regulatory Network Of Escherichia Coli Suggests A Paradigm For Robust Regulation Of Processes In Serie - Medical News Today 03/12/05

The evolutionary process has resulted in complex working designs of organisms to survive in uncertain environments. These designs are characterized by numerous molecular interactions resulting in a network.

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Spatially Resolved Non-invasive Chemical Stimulation For Modulation Of Signaling In Reconstructed Neuronal Networks - Medical News Today 03/12/05

A biohybrid system is created, in which networks of neuronal cells are reconstructed on silicon chips and interfaced to a microfluidic system.

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Extending The Dynamic Range Of Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Velocity Imaging Using Advanced Higher-dimensional Phase Unwrapping Algorithms - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Phase contrast magnetic resonance velocity imaging is a powerful non-invasive technique to measure in vivo blood flow. Its sensitivity is usually restricted to prevent the measured phase from being 'wrapped' onto the range -Ñ| to +Ñ|.

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Nano Measurements With Micro Devices: Mechanical Properties Of Hydrated Collagen Fibrils - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Predicting when bones may fracture and designing next generation spacecraft materials have something in common: the need to measure mechanical properties of nano-scale objects.

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Nanoprinting Onto Cells - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Biological cells in tissue can react to the substratum nanotopography on which they are growing. These reactions may be of importance in the design of better metallic and polymer prostheses, eg. for hip replacement. In these examples a cell, perhaps 1/1000 cm long senses detail around it 100 to 300 times smaller.

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Evolution Of Hyperactivity, Impulsivity, And Cognitive Diversity - Medical News Today 03/12/05

The evolutionary status of ADHD is central to assessments of whether modern society created it, and is important in understanding its neurobiology and treatment.

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Link Between Creativity And Mating Success - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Biologists have puzzled over how the genetic variants that predispose people to schizophrenia persist in the human gene pool, given that the effects of the disorder are so serious.

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Gene For Debilitating Vitamin B12 Disease Identified By MUHC And McGill Scientists - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Scientists at the MUHC and McGill University have identified a gene responsible for a disease that impairs the body's ability to handle vitamin B12 and that may contribute to heart disease, stroke and dementia. The details of the CIHR and March of Dimes funded research are published in this week's issue of Nature Genetics. The research, which began more than 20 years ago, will allow doctors to perform earlier diagnosis, assess 'carriers' of the disease--Combined Methylmalonic aciduria (MMA) and Homocystinuria--and open the door to new and improved treatments for this debilitating disease.

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Hormone Aldosterone Promising Target For Stroke Treatment - Medical News Today 03/12/05

A bi-polar hormone that can contribute to strokes and minimize their damage is emerging as a therapeutic target in the battle against these brain attacks, researchers say.

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Volunteer Operated Defibrillators Are Life-savers, Study - Medical News Today 03/12/05

The first large-scale study to see whether trained volunteers and lay people can use defibrillators to save the lives of cardiac arrest (CA) victims has concluded that their use by lay people is safe, and if the response time can be shortened to within eight minutes there is the potential to save the lives of 15 out of 100 people who collapse suddenly with CA.

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New Peptide Antibiotic Isolated From American Oyster - Medical News Today 03/12/05

North Carolina Sea Grant researchers have isolated a new peptide antibiotic from the American oyster that may have implications for managing many diseases in oysters.

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Scientists Develop Protein-sequence Analysis Tool - Medical News Today 03/12/05

With more and more protein sequence data available, scientists are increasingly looking for ways to extract the small subset of information that determines a protein's function. In addition to sorting out what makes related proteins differ, such information can also help scientists engineer proteins to do new jobs.

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Radiologists Tackle Diagnosis Of Puzzling Football Injuries - Medical News Today 03/12/05

New imaging discoveries may improve physicians' ability to diagnose and treat two serious injuries affecting football players, according to two studies presented this week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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Liver Transplants May Not Be Indicated For Cystic Fibrosis Patients With Bleeding Complication - Medical News Today 03/12/05

A new study on patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) who have had abnormal bleeding from ruptured blood vessels in the esophagus (variceal hemorrhage) as a result of liver disease found that transplant may not be indicated if there are no other indications of advanced liver disease.

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Evidence Grows That Alzheimer's Is A Type Of Diabetes - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School have discovered that insulin and its receptors drop significantly in the brain during the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, and that levels decline progressively as the disease becomes more severe, leading to further evidence that Alzheimer's is a new type of diabetes. They also found that acetylcholine deficiency, a hallmark of the disease, is linked directly to the loss of insulin and insulin-like growth factor function in the brain.

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New Kidney Disease Drug Saves Lives At Low Cost - Medical News Today 03/12/05

A recent study has found that sevelamer (Renagel®) is having a positive long term clinical and economic effect when used on hemodialysis patients. This study, undertaken by the Caro Research Institute in Concord, MA and published in Value in Health, examined the long-term consequences associated with one year of sevelamer use.

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Slightly Higher Risk Of Major Birth Defects Associated With IVF - Medical News Today 03/12/05

Babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), a method of assisted reproduction, have a slightly increased risk of major birth defects, such as heart or muscle and skeletal defects, compared to babies conceived naturally, according to a University of Iowa study.

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Noninvasive Ultrasound Treatment Shrinks Fibroids - Medical News Today 03/12/05

A totally noninvasive procedure using high-intensity ultrasound waves to heat and destroy uterine fibroid tissue significantly relieves fibroid-related symptoms in women, according to the results of a multicenter clinical trial. Magnetic resonance-guided, focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) allows radiologists to precisely target fibroids without harming healthy surrounding tissue. The study was presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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Skimmed Milk Halves Hypertension Risk - Medical News Today 03/12/05

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is the peer-reviewed journal of international reference in the field of nutrition. In its latest issue, of November, it published an article which demonstrated that non-fat milk products can reduce the risk of hypertension by 50%, while nevertheless there is no appreciable connection between that disease and the consumption of whole milk.

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How Severe Are Go-cart Injuries? Study - Medical News Today 02/12/05

A Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center study of children who were hospitalized from motorized go-cart accidents found that the average hospital stay was almost five days and that more than half of children required at least one operation - and almost a third required two or more operations.

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Young Female Smokers At Higher Breast Cancer Risk - Medical News Today 02/12/05

Researchers outline in the November issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings their study of postmenopausal women, which supports the hypothesis that women who smoke cigarettes before first full-term pregnancy have a 20 percent increased risk of breast cancer compared with women who began smoking after the birth of their first child or were never smokers.

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Heavy Marijuana Use And Schizophrenia Risk - Medical News Today 02/12/05

Heavy use of marijuana may put adolescents who are genetically predisposed to schizophrenia at greater risk of developing the brain disorder, according to research presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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Genetic Key To Growth Of New Arteries Is Identified - Medical News Today 02/12/05

Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center have uncovered part of the genetic mechanism that causes new arteries to grow in response to blocked arteries.

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Yale Scientists Decipher 'wiring Pattern' Of Cell Signaling Networks - Medical News Today 02/12/05

A team of scientists at Yale University has completed the first comprehensive map of the proteins and kinase signaling network that controls how cells of higher organisms operate, according to a report this week in the journal Nature.

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World First Trial To Test Human Implant Of HeartPOD™ - Medical News Today 02/12/05

Researchers at The Alfred and Monash University are leading a world first trial to investigate whether the implantation of a specially designed HeartPODTM monitoring system in heart failure patients can keep them out of hospital and lead to a better quality of life.

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