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Primary care financial incentives cut heart disease deaths and admissions, UK study finds - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 12:58 pm
Financial incentives in primary care cut heart disease deaths and hospital admissions, particularly ... more
At least 1 in 10 athletes injured during 2010 Winter Olympics, study finds - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 12:58 pm
At least one in 10 athletes sustained an injury and a further one in 14 fell ill during the 2010 Win ... more
Report on top-selling diabetes drug raises concerns about the drug regulatory system - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 12:58 pm
An investigation by the British Medical Journal into the top-selling diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Av ... more
Scientists create new process to 'program' cancer cell death - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 12:58 pm
Researchers have engineered a fundamentally new approach to killing cancer cells. The process uses s ... more
Activation signal for Aurora-A oncogene: Discovery may lead to more potent drug combinations - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 12:58 pm
Aurora-A kinase (AurA) is an enzyme that is hyperactive in many cancers and drives tumor cell prolif ... more
New robotic head and neck cancer surgery preserves speech, without scarring, study shows - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 12:58 pm
An incisionless robotic surgical procedure is offering patients a new option to remove certain head ... more
Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes, study finds - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 12:58 pm
Patients with colon cancer who used multivitamins during and after being treated with post-surgical ... more
More Americans bypassing their personal physician when immediate treatment required, study finds - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 11:58 am
Only 45 percent of the 354 million annual visits for acute care in the United States are made to pat ... more
Short sleepers at higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, study finds - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 11:58 am
People who sleep less than six hours a night may be three times more likely to develop a condition w ... more
Gambling on breast scans: Monte Carlo analysis could help reduce number of cancers missed by mammography - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 10:58 am
A mathematical tool known as a Monte Carlo analysis could help improve the way X-rays are used for m ... more
Carbohydrate claims can mislead consumers, study finds - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 9:58 am
Food manufacturers advertise a variety of foods on grocery store shelves by using nutrient claims on ... more
Many hospital emergency department visits could be treated elsewhere, study finds - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 9:58 am
Evidence shows that more people are seeking routine care from hospital emergency departments, a tren ... more
Experts recommend universal screening of newborns for congenital adrenal hyperplasia - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 9:58 am
The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and treatment ... more
Unrelated kidney donor study shows age and obesity increase complications - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 9:58 am
Patients who have received a new kidney are significantly more likely to develop transplant renal ar ... more
What can a New Zealand reptile tell us about false teeth? - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 9:58 am
Using a moving 3-D computer model based on the skull and teeth of a New Zealand reptile called tuata ... more
Is hand washing enough to stop the spread of disease? - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 9:58 am
Not drying your hands thoroughly after washing them, could increase the spread of bacteria and rubbi ... more
First Irish genome sequenced - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 9:58 am
The first entire genome of an Irish individual has been sequenced. The sequence provides insight int ... more
Golf: Evidence of how 'loading the hips' improves golf drives - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 9:58 am
It €™s all in the hips. New research provides concrete evidence of how loading the hips improves the ... more
Scientists begin to unravel causes of mysterious skin disease - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 7, 2010, 12:58 am
Vitiligo -- a complex disease that typically causes patches of white skin on the face, neck and extr ... more
Researchers define role of CEP290 in maintaining ciliary function - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 11:58 pm
Researchers helps define the role of an important ciliary protein, CEP290. The results could be appl ... more
Inflammation is associated with lower intelligence and premature death - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
Inflammation is associated with lower intelligence and premature death, according to scientists. €œ ... more
Interrupting death messages to treat bone disease - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
A surface molecule on bacteria that instructs bone cells to die could be the target for new treatmen ... more
Insect brains are rich stores of new antibiotics - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
Cockroaches could be more of a health benefit than a health hazard according to scientists who have ... more
Blood signatures to diagnose infection - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
Coughing and wheezing patients could someday benefit from quicker, more accurate diagnosis and treat ... more
Hallucinogen can safely ease anxiety in advanced-stage cancer patients, study suggests - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psiloc ... more
Are white homosexual men still taking too many HIV risks? - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
Risky sexual behavior among members of a subset of the gay community is still adding to the spread o ... more
Visual pattern preference may be indicator of autism in toddlers - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
Using eye-tracking methods, researchers have shown that toddlers with autism spend significantly mor ... more
Combining medication and psychosocial treatments may benefit patients with early-stage schizophrenia - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
Patients with early-stage schizophrenia who receive a combination of medication and a psychosocial i ... more
Short nighttime sleep duration among infants, young children associated with obesity in later life - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
Insufficient amounts of nighttime sleep among infants and preschool-aged children may be a significa ... more
Conditional small RNA molecules can kill cancer cells and leave healthy cells alone - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
In a recent study, researchers demonstrated that conditional small RNA molecules can effectively kil ... more
Compounds in non-stick cookware may be associated with elevated cholesterol in children and teens - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 pm
Children and teens with higher blood levels of chemicals used in the production of non-stick cookwar ... more
What are babies made of? Research shows for some it is sugar, salt and not all things nice - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 12:58 pm
Children as young as four weeks old are being fed a poor diet of biscuits, ice-cream and soft drinks ... more
More infants should receive iron supplements, researchers urge - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 11:58 am
Giving iron supplements to children with marginally low birth weights (2000-2500 grams) dramatically ... more
How physical environment influences stem cell development - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 10:58 am
Recent research reveals how physical qualities -- and not only chemical ones €“ may have an influen ... more
'Jailbreak' bacteria can trigger heart disease - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 12:58 am
Plaque-causing bacteria can jailbreak from the mouth into the bloodstream and increase your risk of ... more
Induced pluripotent stem cell retain an inactivated X chromosome, study finds - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 12:58 am
Female induced pluripotent stem cells, reprogrammed from human skin cells into cells that have the e ... more
Backstabbing bacteria: A new treatment for infection? - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 12:58 am
Selfish bacterial cells that act in their own interests and do not cooperate with their infection-ca ... more
Non-invasive therapy significantly improves depression, researchers say - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 12:58 am
A unique new therapy that applies electrical stimulation to a major nerve emanating from the brain i ... more
Talented bacteria make food poisoning unpredictable - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 6, 2010, 12:58 am
While we are often exposed to bacteria in our food which could cause food poisoning, we don't always ... more
Biologists find way to reduce stem cell loss during cancer treatment - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 5, 2010, 5:58 pm
Biologists have discovered that a gene critical for programmed cell death is also important in the l ... more
Role of key genetic catalyst for human diversity discovered - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 5, 2010, 5:58 pm
One of the key drivers of human evolution and diversity, accounting for changes that occur between d ... more
Race, insurance status cited in uneven death rates among pedestrians hit by cars - ScienceDaily: Health Medicine News Sep 4, 2010, 10:58 pm
Uninsured minority pedestrians hit by cars are at a significantly higher risk of death than their in ... more