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More Americans Living with Paralysis than Previously Thought
New research by the University of New Mexico suggests that the number of people in the United...
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Shriners Hospitals May Close a Quarter of Their Facilities
Shriners Hospitals for Children is considering closing a quarter of their facilities as donations...
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Spinal Cord Stimulation May Improve Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Patients
A new study released Thursday by US researchers suggests that, when electrically stimulated the...
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Bacterial Meningitis Kills Second Soldiers at Missouri Base
Bacterial meningitis made a second victim among soldiers stationed at the Army’s Fort...
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Obama Will Lift the Ban On Embryonic Stem Cell Research
U.S. President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban embryonic...
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Meningitis Strikes the University of Pennsylvania: Three Students Hospitalized
Three University of Pennsylvania students have been hospitalized with meningitis, school officials...
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Obesity Linked to Birth Defects
Tuesday, British researchers informed that obese women were more prone to giving birth to...
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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Risk of Multiple Sclerosis
A UK and Canadian team of researchers have managed to put forward evidence of a link...
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Weight Loss Improves Urinary Incontinence In Women
Doctors often advise patients to lose weight if they’re at risk of developing certain...
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FDA Finally Approves Geron’s stem cells therapy
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just tapped a Northern Californian biotech company to...
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Strange Disease Leads to Warnings and Parents are Encouraged to Vaccinate their Children
Five cases of the infectious children's bacterial disease known as HiB, or Haemophilus influenza...
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FDA Approves First Phase Of Stem Cells Treatment
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the first clinical trial using human...
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Calif. Company Granted Federal Permission For First Stem-Cell Trial
It appears that embryonic stem cell research is gaining grounds in the United States as a...
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Wyeth Vaccine Helped Slash Pneumococcal Meningitis Rates
Pneumococcal meningitis rates have declined substantially since a new vaccine was introduced in...
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9-Year-Old Boy Recovers From Orthopedic Decapitation
Amazing as it seems, a 9-year-old boy from Hillsboro, Texas, who suffered an orthopedic...
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Epilepsy Drug in Pregnancy Increases Autism Risk
Pregnant women taking valproate, a drug used to treat
epilepsy, may significantly increase their...
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Growth Hormone Doesn’t Help ALS Sufferers
A two-year study of the growth hormone known as insulin-like
growth factor-1 (IGF-1) on patients...
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Trial Shows Antigenics’ Oncophage Extends Survival in Cancer Patients
A small study of patients with brain cancer showed that Antigenics
Inc’s Oncophage vaccine helped...
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Mind power can help keep pain in check
Boppard, Germany - Hardly anyone lies voluntarily on a bed of nails or runs 40 kilometres without...
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Wyeth: New Version of Prevnar Has Positive Results in Study
A news study presented Monday at the joint annual meeting of
the Interscience Conference on...
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Scientists Say Mind Power Can Render Paralysed Limbs To Move
Researchers
at the University of Washington
in Seattle have published a report via
the online...
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Stems Cells Made from Human Testicles
Providing a way out of a thorny ethical dilemma, scientists
have developed a kind of cells called...
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FDA Study: Statins Don’t Pose Risk Of Lou Gehrig’s Disease
Cholesterol-lowering drugs or statins do not increase the
incidence of amyotrophic lateral...
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The End of West Nile Season Is Approaching
The West Nile
situation continues to represent a threat because the weather is still warm...
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Officials Say: Take West Nile Threat Seriously
While cases of West Nile detections are being reported all over the country, it appears that...
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Update: West Nile Danger Is Definitely Not Over
West Nile season is definitely not over, as reports are pouring in from all over the country....
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Researchers Created Stem Cells Using Skin Samples from ALS Patients
Scientists at Harvard and Columbia universities announced yesterday that they created the first...
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New Research Says Brain Chemical Could Determine SIDS
In a new attempt to explain the cause of SIDS (Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome) the researchers of...
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West Nile Warning Stronger than Ever
Warm weather brings with it not only the joy of living but also waves of mosquitoes that could be...
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Senator Kennedy Awaits Treatment News
With just a few days after the announcement of his recently
found brain tumor, Senator Edward M....
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