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| Shorter Radiation Treatment Works for Breast Cancer |
Some Canadian researchers discovered that only three weeks of radiation for the women who have an early-stage breast cancer are correspondent with the five weeks or more of the same treatment. The researchers tracked 1,234 women for almost 12 years and noticed that a shorter treatment does the same with the longer one.
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 The doctors from the University of Arizona were offered $44 million for the next six years if they participate in a study based on children’s health. Many investigators believe that this new study will provide serious information about the causes of childhood diseases. The study is a part of the National Children’s Study led by the...
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 A new study has proved that curbing inflammation in some part of the brain can help in keeping the weight down. The most known weight problem is obesity and this disease increases inflammation inside all the body. The new study can show that the brain inflammation might be a weapon to fight obesity. The tomorrow edition of “ Cell” will...
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A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the history of HIV, suggesting the virus that causes AIDS has been infecting people for at least 100 years.
The most pervasive and virulent global strain of HIV began spreading among human beings between 1884 and 1924, new research published Thursday in...
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 A study released on Wednesday has released new information about HIV/AIDS. The Democratic Republic of Congo has recently found out that a genetic analysis of a biopsy sample from their country dates back for more than a century and contains the virus. Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who led the study, discovered...
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 Researchers have recently discovered that the gene which causes the risk of obesity in people is strongly connected to colon cancer. And that’s good because the fat cells inside the body create a smaller risk of colon cancer. On Tuesday, the researchers added that this might be a discovery to reassure the people who have family history...
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 Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are two supplements used to treat arthritis and joint pain. Still, recent studies have shown that these two popular drugs don’t work properly or don’t do enough to cure neither arthritis, nor joint pain. But the researchers added that their study needed to be revised as some findings were confusing.Dr....
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 On Monday, a guidelines released by the American Heart Association showed that heart patients should be checked for depression because the heart disease can mix up a common complication of depression which can easily produce a second heart attack. Depressed heart patients are more likely to die of a second heart attack and as the...
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A new study shows that drug-coated stents are safe enough for the heart-attack patients. The research was made on 7,217 patients and it was necessary to show that the new drug-coated stents don’t increase the risk of death and can be used instead of the older-bare stents. And the new drugs turned out to be even safer than the older ones....
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 Prostate cancer has always been a common cancer for men, but second in skin cancer caused both to women and men. Nearly 186,000 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008, according to the American Cancer Society. This type of cancer takes the fault for almost 9% of the cancer-related deaths in men.AMC also said that...
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 According to researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the energy drinks available on the market contain so much caffeine that they should have many warning labels on them, which, of course, they don’t. Some of the energy drinks contain 14 times the caffeine of a normal soda. This might the equivalent of 7 seven cups of...
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 Mass Murder in Memphis Home, 6 Killed
The bodies of six people - 4 adults and 2 children - were found by police in a small brick house in Memphis, Tennessee. Inside the small building were found three other...
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