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Breast Tenderness During Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked To Elevated Cancer Risk
Women who developed new-onset breast tenderness after starting estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement therapy were at significantly higher risk for developing breast cancer than women on the combination therapy who...
CT scans show patients with severe cases of H1N1 are at risk for developing acute pulmonary emboli
Researchers utilising computed tomography (CT) scans have found that patients with severe cases of the H1N1 virus are at risk for developing severe complications, including pulmonary emboli (PE), according to...
New Cancer Gene Discovered
A new cancer gene has been discovered by researchers in Sweden. The gene causes an insidious form of glandular cancer usually in the head and neck and in women also...
SCID kids leading healthy, normal lives 25 years after 'Bubble Boy'
Mention the words 'bubble boy' and many will recall David Vetter, the kid with big eyes and a thick thatch of dark hair who died 25 years ago after spending...
Common gene variant found to regulate iron levels
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team including researchers at UQ's Diamantina Institute and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research has identified a new variant of a gene that helps to...
Impaired foetal growth increases risk of asthma
A new study from the medical university Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm shows that children born with low birth weight are at a higher risk of developing asthma later in life....
Most H1N1 patients with respiratory failure treated with oxygenating system survive illness
Despite the severity of disease and the intensity of treatment, most patients in Australia and New Zealand who experienced respiratory failure as a result of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) and were...
Supervised Strength Training Is More Effective
Half of all Swedish elite volleyball players suffer at least one injury per season. One important reason may be that most players perform injury-preventing strength training unsupervised.
Premium Car Research & Cow Dung Point To New High Tech Disease Diagnosis
Researchers have taken high tech gas sensors normally used to test components for premium cars and applied the same techniques to human blood, human urine, and even cow dung samples...
T-Mobile Halts Sales of Sidekick
Massive Hardware Failure Resulted in Many Customers Losing Their E-Mail, Contacts, Other Data
Day care next frontier in fighting kids' obesity
(AP) -- Grilled chicken replaced the hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies at snack time. No more fruit juice - water or low-fat milk only. This is the new...
New antibiotic shows promise in combating malaria
Bangladeshi researchers say that the antibiotic tigecycline has potential use in combination with antimalarials such as artemisinin.
Getting to the core of H1N1 flu deaths
Fatalities show lungs are overwhelmed; ventilation to replace lost oxygen and antiviral drugs can rescue patients
Sickest swine flu cases in Canada, Mexico detailed
(AP) -- Rapidly worsening breathing problems in the sickest swine flu patients in Mexico and Canada present a scary worst-case scenario and could foreshadow what U.S. doctors face as...
Global vaccination effort could wipe out HPV
A Nobel Prize winner has called for global rollout of vaccines that protect against cervical cancer — a big killer in the developing world.
Inhibitors Of Important Tuberculosis Survival Mechanism Identified
Attempts to eradicate tuberculosis are stymied by the fact that the disease-causing bacteria have a sophisticated mechanism for surviving dormant in infected cells. Now, a team of scientists has identified...
Immunologist Michel Nussenzweig elected to Institute of Medicine
The head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Nussenzweig’s considerable contributions to the field of immunology include insights into how autoimmune diseases progress and the development of methods that...
Statistical Model Superior To Traditional Criteria In Bladder Treatment Decision
Study finds a statistical model can accurately predict which patients will have poor outcomes after bladder surgery and can determine the need for chemotherapy.
Early warning system could keep lights on
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester are developing 'early warning systems' that could prevent power blackouts in the UK.
Banned drug may help horses
Researchers have discovered that a drug banned from horse racing cuts the high risk of thoroughbreds bleeding into their lungs.
Researchers to study schizophrenia genetic
MANHASSET, N.Y., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than $2 million to allow researchers to study the genetic basis of schizophrenia.
Better way to clean surgical tools
Australian scientists have created a solution that can stop the spread of deadly Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in hospitals.
Doctors: NZ must cut emissions
In order to protect the health of its residents, New Zealand must halve its greenhouse emissions, according to health professionals.
Haemophiliacs with HIV to sue drugs firm
Bayer owned company to face victims in Taiwan and Hong Kong over its marketing of infectious blood products
For the record
Concussions: An article in the Oct. 5 Health section on new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat concussions incorrectly said USC wide receiver Garrett Green is 19 years old....
Program reveals antenna risk
Scientists have developed a tool that lets users to calculate areas around their antennas that have dangerous radiation levels.
Where to Get a Flu Shot Is Big Worry of Season
From telephone hotlines to vaccine drive-throughs, the states are gearing up to be able to offer inoculations.
21st Century Babies: Grievous Choice on Risky Path to Parenthood
Intrauterine insemination, a procedure to help women get pregnant, is the major cause of dangerous multiple births of four or more babies.