The latest advertising campaign by the British Heart Foundation is trying to cure the nation's stiff upper lip. Its posters show a man's chest being squeezed by a belt of pain, and the advice: "a chest pain is your body saying call 999". According to the BHF, heart attack victims wait a breathtakin
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of 677 mostly male middle-aged Israeli workers, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine."
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A MILLION hay fever sufferers could benefit from an anti-pollen vaccine pill.The tablet, called Grazax, contains a tiny quantity of grass pollen extract. From next month it will be available on prescription to patients who do not respond to conventional treatments.
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University of Calgary researchers are among a group of scientists who discovered the key to unraveling the mystery surrounding the onset of diabetes and are plowing the way to a cure.
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An experimental antiretroviral drug designated "MK-0518" rapidly achieves sharp reductions in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) levels, and may offer the prospect of single-drug treatment for patients with HIV infection, according to a Rapid Communication in the December 1 issue of JAIDS: Journal
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Among 33,830 women, 65 years of age or older, taking once-weekly Actonel or Fosamax for the first time, researchers found that the 12,215 women on Actonel had significantly lower rates of hip and nonvertebral fractures during the first year of therapy than the 21,615 women on Fosamax.
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Objective To examine concordance between treatment effects in animal experiments and clinical trials.Study design Systematic review.Data sources Medline, Embase, SIGLE, NTIS, Science Citation Index, CAB, BIOSIS.Study selection Animal studies for interventions with unambiguous evidence of a treatment...
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Objective To evaluate the performance of a routine incident reporting system in identifying patient safety incidents.Design Two stage retrospective review of patients' case notes and analysis of data submitted to the routine incident reporting system on the same patients.Setting A large NHS hospita
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Objective To examine the relation between IQ in childhood and vegetarianism in adulthood.Design Prospective cohort study in which IQ was assessed by tests of mental ability at age 10 years and vegetarianism by self-report at age 30 years.Setting Great Britain.Participants 8170 men and women aged 30 ...
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