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Childhood Kidney Disorder Has Lasting Effects
A kidney condition that can arise in children and was until recently believed to disappear after puberty may persist into adulthood and cause significant long-term complications, according to a new...
Pregnancy And Birth: Safe For Women With Kidney Transplants
Women who have had a kidney transplant and have good kidney function can get pregnant and give birth without jeopardizing their health or the health of their transplant. Having children...
UCI researchers create new strategy for highly-selective chemotherapy delivery
UC Irvine researchers have created a new approach that vastly improves the targeting of chemotherapeutic drugs to specific cells and organs...
Use of statins favours the wealthy, creating new social disparities in cholesterol
Since the introduction of statins to treat high cholesterol, the decline in lipid levels experienced by the wealthy has been double that experienced by the poor. While statins are highly...
Environmental chemicals found in breast milk and high incidence of testicular cancer
A comparison of breast milk samples from Denmark and Finland revealed a significant difference in environmental chemicals which have previously been implicated in testicular cancer or in adversely affecting development...
Nanoparticle-based battlefield pain treatment moves a step closer
University of Michigan scientists have developed a combination drug that promises a safer, more precise way for medics and fellow soldiers in battle situations to give a fallen soldier both...
Diabetes most prevalent in Southern US
Diabetes prevalence is highest in the Southern and Appalachian states and lowest in the Midwest and the Northeast of America. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Population Health...
Sleep loss linked to increase in Alzheimer's plaques
Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease makes Alzheimer's brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report...
Coronary Imaging Techniques Helps To Identify Plaques Likely To Cause Heart Attacks
Late-breaking results from the PROSPECT clinical trial shed new light on the types of vulnerable plaque that are most likely to cause sudden, unexpected adverse cardiac events, and on the...
Diabetes Drug Shows Promise In Fighting Lethal Cancer Complication
Insulin resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes and a condition often associated with obesity, is paradoxically also an apparent contributor to muscle wasting and severe fat loss that accompanies...
HIV vaccine feat leaves more questions than answers
A combination of vaccines is found to provide modest protection against infection. Now scientists have to find out how that happened. Only hours after HIV vaccine researchers announced the achievement of a milestone that...
Scientists determine dynamics of HIV transmission in UK heterosexuals
Among heterosexuals in the United Kingdom (UK), HIV transmission can occur within networks of as many as 30 people, according to a new study by researchers at the University of...
Scientists See Numbers Inside Peoples Heads
Scientists can watch brain activity to decipher what number you're thinking of.
School drinking water contains toxins
(AP) -- Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of...
Children who are spanked have lower IQs, new research finds
Children who are spanked have lower IQs worldwide, including in the United States, according to new groundbreaking research by University of New Hampshire professor Murray Straus. The research results will...
Senate Panel Rejects Bid to Add Drug Discount
The Finance Committee will not require pharmaceutical companies to give bigger discounts to Medicare on drugs for older Americans with low incomes.
Alcohol's benefits 'exaggerated'
In a new paper, New Zealand scientists argue there is no conclusive proof that drinking alcohol benefits the heart.
Rough Day At Work? You Won't Feel Like Exercising
Using your willpower for one task depletes you of the willpower to do an entirely different task, a new study shows.
Viagra Relatives May Shrink Abnormally Large Hearts
Compounds related to Viagra, which is already in clinical trials to prevent heart failure, may also counter the disease in a different way, according to a new study. The results...
Cogent trial shows lack of adverse interaction between clopidogrel and stomach medicine
Results from a late breaking clinical trial called COGENT demonstrate that the combination of giving patients clopidogrel, a blood thinner commonly prescribed to patients with cardiovascular disease, and stomach medicines...
Video: HIV Vaccine on the Horizon?
After decades of failure, new research offers hope that it is possible to develop a vaccine to protect against HIV. Dr. Jennifer Ashton reports.
The beginning of the end for HIV/AIDS? The RV144 HIV Vaccine trial in Thailand reports success
When HIV was discovered as the causative agent of AIDS in 1984 (and has since been repeatedly proven, despite denialists claims - see Ben's post) scientists were relieved: "It's a virus! Phew, viruses...
Precancer? Earliest cancer? Milk-duct cells vexing
(AP) -- Some doctors tell patients they have "stage zero" breast cancer. Others call it a precancer.
Fertilizers may not help poorest African farmers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have linked poverty in sub-Saharan Africa with poor soil health, but two new Cornell studies find that the recommended practice of applying more fertilizer may not help...
Study: Only a Third of Americans Aware of Exercise Recommendations (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Only a third of Americans could identify national recommendations for minimum daily physical activity of 30 minutes, despite more than a decade of publicity campaigns, according to research...
F.D.A. Admits Error on Knee Device
The agency admitted Thursday that pressure from members of Congress and the manufacturer influenced the decision.
Quebec surgeon to lead N.B. trauma network
Dr. Marcel Martin, a general and trauma surgeon from Sherbrooke, Que., has been named the medical director of New Brunswick's new provincial trauma network.
Lifestyle interventions in the prevention and treatment of cancer
There is clear evidence that lifestyle choices affect the incidence and treatment of cancer, according to a study published in the current issue of American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM).