(Stanford University Medical Center) A drug commonly used in the developing world to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child persists in the breast milk and blood of the mothers, putting them and their babies at risk for developing drug-resistant strains of the virus, according to research
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(Northwestern University) A dopamine imbalance triggers Parkinson's disease and drug addition -- two opposite diseases. How it worked to do this in the brain had been a mystery. New esearch shows dopamine strengthens and weakens the two primary circuits in the brain that control our behavior. This
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(University of California - Los Angeles) UCLA and Intrinsic LifeSciences, a San Diego biotech company, developed the first method to measure the hormone, hepcidin, which regulates the absorption of dietary iron and its distribution in the body. This new blood test will help clinicians manage chro
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AIDS vaccine researchers should move to smaller, more focused trials and dump any vaccines that do not show strong promise, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said on Tuesday.
A hospital CEO was arrested in what authorities said was a scheme to recruit homeless people as phony patients and bill government programs for unnecessary health services.
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Reuters - An imaging method known as a PET scan may enable doctors to determine whether a person has "plaques" in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, according to a Finnish study published on Monday.
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(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Aug. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine explores the issue of organ donation after cardiac death. In the journal's Perspective Roundtable, Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Scho
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