Patients with moderate to severe sleep apnea who have significantly higher serum levels of inflammatory markers that serve as precursors to coronary artery disease, as well as lesions associated with silent brain infarction, have an elevated risk of stroke, according to a group of Japanese medical r...
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Colorectal cancer patients who undergo colonoscopic surveillance during follow-up after surgery experience improved survival, according to a study to be published in the April issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology but currently available on-line. [click link for full article]
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Aga Khan University (AKU) is proud to share a peer-reviewed article, "Factors Associated with Adherence to Anti-Hypertensive Treatment in Pakistan," which appears in PLoS ONE, the international, open-access online journal from the Public Library of Science. The study on which the article is based is...
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60 Million Units of Pet Food Recalled After Unexplained Kidney Failure Reports Railroad Gets Favorable Ruling Birth Control Pill Insurance Case FDA Approves
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The BMJ raises concerns over whether journal rankings (known as impact factors) are distorting publishing and science.The impact factor is a measure of the citations to papers in scientific journals. It was developed as a simple measure of quality and has become a proxy for the importance of a journ...
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A clinical trial conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public concluded that daily zinc supplements reduced the risk of death among children aged 12 to 48 months by 18 percent. However, the researchers did not find any significant reduction in mortality among children 1 t...
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Scientists have identified unforeseen mechanisms by which quinolones a family of broad-spectrum antibiotics among the most widely prescribed induce bacterial cell death. The study is published online this week in Molecular Systems Biology. It is well-known that quinolones inhibit bacterial DNA gyras...
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Despite a prevalence of about 5% in the community and 50% in depressed outpatients, the treatment of bipolar II disorder* and related disorders is understudied. Recent advances in this area, which have mainly been related to these conditions, are discussed in a Seminar in The Lancet. [click link for...
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