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New take on cardiac arrest treatment

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:38:00 +0200

Research has found that rapidly cooling a person in cardiac arrest may improve chance of survival without brain damage.
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New findings on IBD

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:35:00 +0200

Research team identifies five new gene regions that raise the risk of childhood-onset IBD; findings linked to a key molecule active in GI inflammation.
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Two units of UCB reduce risk of leukaemia from returning, shows new study

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:32:00 +0200

Finding may give hope to more leukaemia patients so they may live cancer-free.
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Children with ASD have problem with handwriting: Study

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:45:00 +0200

Kennedy Krieger researchers suggest improvements are possible by targeting letter formation, fine motor control training.
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Researchers discover a fungal protein that causes disease in plants and animals

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:12:00 +0200

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields the pathogen from oxidative stress.
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Green tea holds hope for prevention of oral cancer

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:05:00 +0200

Green tea extract has shown promise as cancer prevention agent for oral cancer in patients with a pre-malignant condition known as oral leukoplakia, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre.
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Scientists identify compounds that hold promise for treating parasitic infection

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:28:00 +0200

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, a parasitic infection that many consider one of the world's most overlooked diseases. The findings are available online today in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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Risk of postoperative visual loss is highest after heart surgery

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:17:00 +0200

Imagine waking up after surgery to find out you have lost your sight—permanently. Although rare, postoperative visual loss is a well-recognized complication of anaesthesia and surgery that is more common after certain types of procedures and in some groups of patients, according to a study in the November issue of Anaesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anaesthesia Research Society (IARS).
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Lipid may be vital to learning

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:29:00 +0200

Saturated fats have a deservedly bad reputation, but Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that a sticky lipid occurring naturally at high levels in the brain may help us memorize grandma's recipe for cinnamon buns, as well as recall how, decades ago, she served them up steaming from the oven.
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Girls' ethnicity and weight linked to participation in risky sexual behaviours

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:53:00 +0200

A University of Pittsburgh study sheds new light on the relationship between race, body weight and sexual behaviour among adolescent girls. The results suggest that a girl's ethnicity and her actual weight or perception of her weight may play a role in her participation in risky sexual behaviours. The study results are published in the November issue of Pediatrics, now available online.
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