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Hispanics dying on job at higher rates than others
(AP) -- Hispanic workers die at higher rates than other laborers, with 1 in 3 of these deaths occurring in the construction industry, a government study reported Thursday.
Nutritional Supplement Could Improve Clinical Situation Of ICU Patients
For the first time, it has been determined the exact quantity of vitamins A, E and C and minerals needed to improve the clinic situation of critical patients. This study...
Locomotor Training Restores Walking Function In Child With Spinal Cord Injury
A new report shows that a non-ambulatory (unable to walk or stand) child with a cervical spinal cord injury was able to restore basic walking function after intensive locomotor training....
Human Stem Cells Show Promise Against Fatal Children's Diseases
Scientists have used human stem cells to dramatically improve the condition of mice with a neurological condition similar to a set of diseases in children that are invariably fatal. With...
Estrogen Applied To Human Penis Could Block Spread Of HIV, Study Suggests
A new study has shown that topical estrogen could help prevent HIV infection by blocking entry of the virus into the human penis. The study reveals that application of estrogen...
Weather, Stomach Bugs And Climate Change: Refining The Model
Researchers introduce a model for predicting infectious disease outbreaks that takes into account weather and other factors. Accounting for these factors creates a more accurate model for forecasting infectious disease...
Brief, Intense Exercise Can Benefit The Heart, Study Shows
Short bursts of high intensity sprints -- known to benefit muscle and improve exercise performance -- can improve the function and structure of blood vessels, in particular arteries that deliver...
Court limits Merck monitoring in Vioxx case
(AP) -- Drugmaker Merck & Co. is not liable for the medical monitoring of Vioxx users not claiming injury, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Target Support for Young Scientists, Says White Paper
A white paper issued by an American Academy of Arts and Sciences panel urges the strategic targeting of research dollars to support early-career scientists. University of Maryland president C.D. Mote,...
Self harm on rise amongst youths
Hospitalisations for self harm have drastically risen over the past decade, while suicide remains the second greatest cause of injury deaths amongst youths, a study has found.
The four-year fight for biological art
Steven Kurtz, an art professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, was cleared in April of wire and mail fraud charges, four years after the FBI seized...
Career Couch: Continuing to Heal After Returning to Work
A vast majority of workers who receive a diagnosis of cancer return to their jobs during or after treatment, but much depends on the treatment itself and the severity of...
City to Explore a Way to Add Organ Donors
New York City has received a grant to deploy a “rapid organ-recovery ambulance” to collect and preserve the organs of people who die of cardiac arrest.
After Caesareans, Some See Higher Insurance Cost
With individual insurance, prices differ based on medical histories; a past Caesarean can mean higher premiums.
A Drug Is Credited With Slight Gains for Patients Who Have Lung Cancer
The drug Erbitux lengthened the survival of patients with advanced lung cancer by about five weeks, researchers have reported.
Progress Has Been Made in Fight Against AIDS, but Not Enough, U.N. Report Says
Nearly a million people began life-prolonging drug treatment in developing countries last year, but new infections far outstrip efforts to treat the sick.
Survey of Medical Schools Is Critical of Perks
Of 150 medical schools ranked by the American Medical Student Association, most fail to adequately police gifts that drug companies often shower on doctors and trainees.
Study Finds State Gains in Insurance
Massachusetts reduced its proportion of uninsured adults by nearly half in the first year of mandatory health coverage.
China Moves Quickly in Drug Mystery
The deaths of six hospital patients who received a blood-based drug at a hospital in Jiangxi Province has prompted an unusually swift response from authorities.
Clinic Treats Mental Illness by Enlisting the Family
A new program at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan aggressively treats people with bipolar disorder by involving their family members.
New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging
Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human life span, a new report suggests.
FDA approves new, tiny heart pump
DANVERS, Mass., June 4 (UPI) -- Medical technology company Abiomed Inc. has announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of its Impella 2.5 Cardiac Assist Device heart pump.
Long-term Pesticide Exposure May Increase Risk Of Diabetes
Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes. The associations between specific pesticides and incident diabetes ranged...
New melanoma drugs - why do so few benefit?
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When they work, new melanoma treatments that enlist the help of the immune system to attack tumors can have a stunning effect, in some cases arresting the...
Saving Teeth By Using Periodontal Ligament Regeneration
Teeth may fall out as a result of inflammation and subsequent destruction of the tissues supporting the teeth. Dutch researchers have investigated a possible solution to this problem. They studied...
Discovery Of New Signal Pathway Important To Diabetes Research
Scientists have discovered that cells in the pancreas cooperate -- signal -- in a way hitherto unknown. The discovery can eventually be of significance to the treatment of diabetes.
Bunk Beds Declared Dangerous!
Clamber down a bunk bed ladder in the black of night at your own risk, says a large new study of the double-decker berths: falls, head entrapment, strangulation, and even...
FDA reviews Enbrel, Humira and Remicade
WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced a safety review of several drugs known as tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, blockers.