Archive: 23/01/2012

The lasting effects of violence on teen girls

(Medical Xpress) -- Throughout the world, although teenage boys are exposed to more violence than girls, girls tend to be more negatively affected by these experiences than boys. A new study shows the specific effects of ...

Jan 23, 2012

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Multiple medicines may double fall rate for young and middle aged

(Medical Xpress) -- Working-age adults who take combinations of prescription medication may be doubling their risk of serious falls at home according to research from The University of Auckland.

Jan 23, 2012

Differences in pumping affect breast milk's nutritional value

(Medical Xpress) -- While feeding breast milk to a tiny preterm baby can be a serious challenge, new Stanford research shows that it may be well worth the effort: breast milk that is produced by a combination of hand-expression ...

Jan 23, 2012

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Escape from the mouse trap? New experimental models developing

(Medical Xpress) -- Mark Davis, PhD, director of Stanford’s Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, has used mice to brilliant effect. They have helped him and a legion of fellow immunologists unravel many ...

Jan 23, 2012

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Lung transplants save lives of two teenagers with cystic fibrosis

“There’s nothing like having a bond with someone else who knows exactly what you’re going through.”

Jan 23, 2012

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Big Tobacco led throat doctors to blow smoke

(Medical Xpress) -- Tobacco companies conducted a carefully crafted, decades-long campaign to manipulate throat doctors into helping to calm concerns among an increasingly worried public that smoking might be bad for their ...

Jan 23, 2012

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New approach to combat intractable bacterial infections

(Medical Xpress) -- Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibiotics—and save lives—as the power of our antibiotics arsenal wanes. But ...

Jan 23, 2012

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Professor's research helps restore sight to the blind

Wolfgang Fink's research into artificial retinas helps restore some sight in blind patients with age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa.

Jan 23, 2012

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Gene research sheds light on timing of menopause

(Medical Xpress) -- An international team of researchers has discovered 13 new regions of the genome associated with the timing of menopause.

Jan 23, 2012

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Autism expert on proposed changes to autism diagnosis

(Medical Xpress) -- Autism has been the subject of much discussion recently due to proposed changes in diagnostic criteria, as laid out in the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ...

Jan 23, 2012

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