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Smoking habits during pregnancy may cause genetic instability in the foetus
The Spanish Pediatrics Association has recently awarded the Pediatrics laboratory at the University of Navarre suitable a research into tobacco and foetal genetic instability.
The study, by Marta ZalacaÃÂn, was carried out in conjunction with the Department of Gynacology and Obstetrics at the Hospital Virgen del Camino. “It involved analysing umbilical cords from many births which [...]
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Habit memory – humans clearly can acquire and retain knowledge through repetition
Humans have a “robust” capacity to learn and retain new report unconsciously, retaining so-called habit thought orderly when conscious or declarative erudition is deficient keep, memory experts at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the San Diego Veterans Affairs Health System report in the July 28, 2005 issue of Nature.
“We know [...]
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ECRI Institute Guidebook Confronts Convergence Of Medical Devices And IT
IT professionals in healthcare moment confront a new challenge: the convergence of information technology and medical devices. As immediate advances in technology blur the frontiers between medical devices and computers, IT professionals must deal not but with mission-censorious IT systems but also with life-critical medical devices. And, as the saying goes, lemon is [...]
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Pregnancy may open a window of vulnerability for developing binge eating disorder
Especially for women from lower socio-fiscal situations, according to a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers and colleagues in Norway.
In a long-term study of 100,000 pregnant Norwegian women, the researchers saw an unexpected increase in new incidences of binge eating disorder that began during pregnancy. The research is the largest [...]
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Multi-Institutional Evaluation Of The Predictive Value Of P53 Immunohistochemical Staining In Patients With PT1-2 No Disease At Radical Cystectomy
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) – The authors tested whether p53 turn of phrase could foreshadow disease recurrence and disease-specific survival after organic cystectomy in patients with pT1-2N0M0 urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB). They evaluated 272 patients from five centers who had pT1-2N0M0 bladder cancer treated with radical cystectomy and bilateral lymphadenectomy (median cheer-up: 5 and [...]
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Dynavax’s HEPLISAV(TM) Hepatitis B Vaccine Shows 100% Seroprotection Regardless Of Vaccination Schedule In Phase 2 Trial
Dynavax Technologies
Corporation (Nasdaq: DVAX) announced today positive results from a Phase 2
probationary comparing two different vaccination schedules of HEPLISAV, its
hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine. The primary endpoint is comparative
seroprotection after the second dose. The figures was reported today in a
poster at the Canadian Immunization Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada by Dr. Scott A. Halperin, Professor of [...]
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Indonesia confirms 51st case of human bird flu infection
The Indonesian Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s 51st case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
The case, which was fatal, occurred in a 13-year-old boy from South Jakarta. He developed symptoms on 9 June one week after helping his grandfather slaughter diseased chickens at the family home. The boy was hospitalized [...]
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Human Genetic ‘Deserts’ Are Teeming With Significant Life
Many of the areas of the human genome previously sympathy to be deserts are in fact teeming with obsession, a scientist told the annual conference of the European Mankind of Human Genetics.
Most known human genes in the genome map are even then incompletely annotated, says Professor Alexandre Reymond, from the Heart for Integrative Genomics, University [...]
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Johnson Announces An Extra 4,000 Midwives For The NHS, UK
Salubrity Secretary Alan Johnson announced a
pack of measures to recruit an extra 4,000 midwives to the NHS
over the next three years.
During a visit to Peerage Victoria Infirmary Maternity Unit in
Newcastle, the Fitness Secretary commitment outline plans to give
last midwives a ‘golden hello’ worth up [...]
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Bayer And Onyx Begin Enrollment In STORM Trial Studying Nexavar As Adjuvant Therapy For Patients With Liver Cancer
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(Nasdaq: ONXX) announced the companies bear begun enrolling patients
in the THUNDER Sorafenib as Adjuvant Treatment in the Prevention of
Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma trial. The randomized, double-thick,
placebo-controlled Side 3 study is evaluating Nexavar(R) (sorafenib)
tablets as adjuvant treatment, which is treatment following surgery or
local shedding, for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma [...]