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Scientists lower Gulf health grade

12 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Six months after the rig explosion that led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, damage to the Gulf of Mexico can be measured more...

Push and pull get eyes to work together

12 years ago from Science Daily

Researchers appear to have found a better way to correct sensory eye dominance, a condition in which an imbalance between the eyes compromises fine depth perception. The key is a...

Insight gained into age-related hearing loss

12 years ago from Science Daily

Researchers have gained insight into how different types of age-related hearing loss may occur in humans. The discovery could eventually help physicians develop drugs to combat progressive hearing loss.

Flexing their muscles helps kidney disease patients live longer, study finds

12 years ago from Science Daily

Kidney disease patients are healthier and live longer if they've beefed up their muscles, according to a new study. The results suggest that patients may benefit from pumping iron or...

Study uncovers genetic variations linked with common childhood obesity

12 years ago from

A new study uncovers multiple genetic variations associated with common childhood obesity. The research, published by Cell Press on 14 October in the American Journal of Human Genetics, is likely...

Low beta blocker dose can put patients at risk of heart attacks

12 years ago from

For nearly 40 years a class of drugs known as beta blockers have been proven to increase patients' survival prospects following a heart attack by decreasing the cardiac workload and...

Scientists develop method for curbing growth of crystals that form kidney stones

12 years ago from

Scientists have developed a method for curbing the growth of crystals that form cystine kidney stones. Their findings, which appear in the latest issue of the journal Science, may offer...

Busy FDA keeps watch against marketing of modern snake-oil cures

12 years ago from Physorg

Weight loss, muscle building, and sexual enhancement supplements are today’s snake-oil cures, sometimes spiked with known and unknown drugs that could have potentially deadly consequences, a U.S. Food and Drug...

Scientists discover inner workings of potent cancer drug

12 years ago from

A potent drug derived from an evergreen tree may soon save the lives of some patients with the deadliest form of breast cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, breast...

Researchers report advances vs. preeclampsia, including potential prediction

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In as many as 8 percent of pregnancies worldwide, women who seem fine for months develop preeclampsia, a serious complication causing symptoms including high blood pressure, severe swelling, and problems...

Physicians find early success with laser that destroys tumours with heat

12 years ago from

Physicians at Mayo Clinic's Florida campus are among the first in the nation to use a technique known as MRI-guided laser ablation to heat up and destroy kidney and liver...

Gene identified that prevents stem cells from turning cancerous

12 years ago from

Stem cells, the prodigious precursors of all the tissues in our body, can make almost anything, given the right circumstances. Including, unfortunately, cancer. Now research from Rockefeller University shows that...

Genetic data related to sodium-regulating hormone may help explain hypertension risk

12 years ago from

New research points to the existence of a gene on chromosome 5 that influences how much aldosterone is produced - which may be excessive in African-descended populations...

Anti-vomiting drug could prevent thousands of hospitalisations

12 years ago from

Two years ago, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers found that an anti-vomiting drug called ondansetron helps reduce vomiting, the need for intravenous fluids and...

Molecular switch controls melanin production, may allow true sunless tanning

12 years ago from Science Daily

The discovery of a molecular switch that turns off the natural process of skin pigmentation may lead to a novel way of protecting the skin -- activating the tanning process...

Oh, 180-day-old Happy Meal, why won’t you rot?

12 years ago from MSNBC: Science

An artist’s photography project documenting the gradual decay (or lack thereof) of the popular McDonald’s children’s meal has sparked a conversation about what we — and our kids — eat.

FDA bans misleading chelation 'cures'

12 years ago from CBC: Health

Eight companies were warned Thursday to stop marketing chelation "miracle cures" that claim to treat everything from autism to Parkinson's disease by flushing toxic metals from the body, the U.S....

Doctor and Patient: The Doctor Is In (but Shouldn’t Be)

12 years ago from NY Times Science

A doctor’s decision to keep working while sick may violate the core medical principle of “First, do no harm.”

Holy Therapists! Why Batman Drives Shrinks Batty

12 years ago from Live Science

A real-life psychiatrist explains why Batman and mental health professionals have such a rocky history

Young children are especially trusting of things they're told

12 years ago from Science Daily

Little kids believe the darnedest things. For example, that a fat man in a red suit flies through the air on a sleigh pulled by reindeer. A new study on...

Prescriptions: F.D.A. Admits Error, Will Revoke Approval for Knee Patch

12 years ago from NY Times Health

The agency acknowledged that it had erred in approving Menaflex.

Need a study break to refresh? Maybe not, say Stanford researchers

12 years ago from Science Blog

It could happen to students cramming for exams, people working long hours or just about anyone burning the candle at both ends: Something tells you to take a break. Watch...

Temperature rhythms keep body clocks in sync, UT Southwestern researchers find

12 years ago from Science Blog

DALLAS -- Oct. 14, 2010 -- Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that fluctuations in internal body temperature regulate the body's circadian rhythm, the 24-hour cycle...

Randy Rotifers: Environmental Variation Prompts More Sex

12 years ago from Scientific American

Sex can be a costly endeavor--biologically, that is. Combining genetic material can of course bring beneficial new combinations, but even for tiny organisms that are barely visible to the naked...

U.S. health business sidesteps FDA censure

12 years ago from CBC: Health

A Montana-based natural health supplier is still pursuing business after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration demanded it stop making claims for its unapproved drugs and devices.

Chronic disease focus for doctors' network

12 years ago from CBC: Health

Canadian family doctors aim to better manage chronic diseases in their patients through a new network of electronic health records.

BlackBerry ban at Col. Williams hearing lifted

12 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

Journalists will be able to use laptops, BlackBerrys and cellphones in the courtroom next week during the sentencing hearing of admitted murderer and sexual stalker Col. Russell Williams.

Prescriptions: Fewer People Choose Cobra Subsidy Option

12 years ago from NY Times Health

A new analysis by the Employee Benefits Research Institute questioned whether even subsidized coverage is too expensive for many Americans.