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Category: Health
Google Health, the latest service from Google, was recently launched as a beta version. Online personal health services have been around for a while (including Revolution Health and Microsoft's HealthVault) but here's what Google says is different about theirs:...
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Category: Pharma
Two MIT pharmaceutical industry experts believe that the mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and by establishing a non-profit company to oversee funding for new medicines. The...
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Category: Health
Men develop liver cancer at twice the rate of women in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. Considering that the liver is a non-reproductive organ, this is quite a difference. A research team led by Dr....
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Category: Health
This Chicago Sun-Times article tells of how (expensive) scientific techniques are being used to change the quality of life for one man and his children....
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Category: Health
A team of researchers from the St Vincent's Campus in Sydney have identified a protein called MIC-1 that appears to control the extreme weight loss common in late stage cancer (sometimes called cancer anorexia), which often speeds death. MIC-1, which...
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Category: Health
This week on "House Call With Dr, Sanjay Gupta" he discusses the latest concerns about cough medications given to children under 6 and antibiotic-resistant staph infections among other things.
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Is depression overdiagnosed in today's society? Yes, says Professor Gordon Parker in the August 18 2007 issue of the British Medical Journal. Rates of diagnosis of depression have risen steeply in recent years. Parker, a scientia professor from the...
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Category: Health
This CNN Health article provides some useful recommendations on how to lower one's risk of miscarriage. I have summarized them below. 1. Do a little detective work When you're planning to get pregnant, your first move should be a careful...
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Category: Health
The first report that gene therapy could enhance muscle in a mouse model was published in 2004. Since then, it has become of increasing concern that some unscrupulous athletes may consider gene therapy as a viable alternative to steroid injection...
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Category: Health
I was recently sent this news and thought some readers may be interested. MedHelp, an online health community that connects people with physicians and medical experts, has just added the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) to its repertoire. The website...
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