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Researchers in the School of Dentistry at The University of Manchester have created a unique way of identifying osteoporosis sufferers from ordinary dental x-rays.Professor Keith Horner and Dr Hugh Devlin co-ordinated a three year, EU-funded collaboration with the Universities of Athens, Leuven, Ams... read more »
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The incidence of stroke in the U.S. over the past 50 years has declined, although the severity of stroke has not, according to a study in the December 27 issue of JAMA.Stroke continues to be a major public health concern, with more than 750,000 new strokes occurring each year in the United States. [... read more »
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Elsevier, world-leading scientific, technical and medical publisher, is pleased to announce its new partnership with the NLA - National Lipid Association, the leading society for medical doctors and other health care professionals who work to reduce the incidence of morbidity and mortality from dysl... read more »
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The American Public Health Association (APHA) recently adopted 22 policies addressing a broad range of issues in public health from preparations for an influenza pandemic and opposition to abstinence-only education to trans fat restrictions and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Following ... read more »
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* Researchers have confirmed a significant interaction between alcohol-problem severity and ethnicity. * Hispanics and blacks with higher-severity alcohol problems appear to utilize services at lower rates than whites with similar problems. * For Hispanics especially, this may be due in part t... read more »
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The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) today announced the release of a new Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. In a major revision of GINA's 2002 Global Strategy, the new guidelines put the emphasis on asthma control. [click link for full article] read more »
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A new type of PET scan has been used to detect Alzheimer's non-invasively. It gives results that are as good as doing an autopsy, a new research study suggests.The research, which is published in the New England Journal of Medicine was carried out by a team of scientists from the David Geffen Schoo... read more »
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A peptide known to play a role in anxiety is overly plentiful in a mouse model of the inherited neurological disorder Rett syndrome and appears to underlie the anxiety-like behavior in these mice, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the Proceedings of ... read more »
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Peering deep within the cells of fruit flies, developmental biologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia may have discovered a new way that genes are turned on and off during development. If they're right, and the same processes are at work in higher organism... read more »
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