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Sunday 20 January 2008

Suppressing Overactive Immune System May Help Heart Failure Patients

Written by Christian Nordqvist

Dulling a heart failure patient's overactive immune system may reduce his/her chances of dying from any cause, or being hospitalized in future for cardiovascular reasons, according to an article published in The Lancet...
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Indian Medicinal Plant Acanthus Ilicifolius May Combat Liver Cancer
Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world with a poor prognosis. About three quarters of the cases of liver cancer are found in Southeast Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India, and Japan...
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Medication Safety At Risk, Australia
Two articles in the latest Medical Journal of Australia raise concerns about the safety of medication practices in hospitals, one analysing the reasons for prescribing errors by interns and the other identifying problems...
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Other Medical and Health News for 20 January*

Trial Shows Benefits Of Concurrent Pap Smears And Chlamydia Screening, Australia

Mareeba Model Shows That Consultation, Cooperation And Flexibility May Keep Rural Maternity Units Operating, Australia

New Way To Produce High-Vitamin Corn Could Improve Eye Health And Nutrition In Developing Countries

Potential For 'Personalized' Asthma Therapy

What Are The Essential Characteristics Of Serum PG In Chinese?

Insight Into Alzheimer's Disease Provided By Engineered Mice

Neutralizing IL-22 Prevents Psoriasis In Mice

Research Shows Poorer DLA Grants For Down's Syndrome Families From Non-English Speaking Ethnic Minority Backgrounds In UK

A Promising New Approach To Cadmium Induced Hepatoxicity: Cytoprotective Effect Of Midkine

Do Today's Young People Really Think They Are So Extraordinary?

Degenerative Diseases Such As Cancer May Be Combatted By Consumption Of Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Polynesians Have Little Genetic Relationship To Melanesians, Genome Scan Shows

What Is The More Suitable For Early Detection Of Low Abundant Lamivudine-Resistant Mutants?

When Stress Makes You Bitter: The Embitterment Disorder

What Does Make Patients Get Rid Of Their Obsessions And Compulsions?

Making Quick Decisions Healthy: Simple Front Of Pack Logo Best To Help Consumers In Busy Shopping Environment

Beyond The Abstract - P53 Gene And Protein Status: The Role Of P53 Alterations In Predicting Outcome In Patients With Bladder Cancer

Beyond The Abstract - Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy Specifically Reduces Human Fetal Desert Hedgehog Gene Expression During Testis Development

Beyond The Abstract - Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs And Prostate Cancer Risk: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

Beyond The Abstract - Sexual Function Reported By Japanese And American Men

Beyond The Abstract - Sequential Bilateral Minimum Incision Endoscopic Radical Nephrectomy In Dialysis Patients With Bilateral Renal Cell Carcinomas

Beyond The Abstract - The Value Of Combined Use Of Survivin, Cytokeratin 20 And Mucin 7 MRNA For Bladder Cancer Detection In Voided Urine

Risk-Adjusted Analysis Of Positive Surgical Margins Following Laparoscopic And Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy

High Provider Volume Is Associated With Lower Rate Of Secondary Therapies After Definitive Radiotherapy For Localized Prostate Cancer

A Phase II Clinical Trial Of Sorafenib In Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer

Docetaxel Plus Prednisone Or Mitoxantrone Plus Prednisone For Advanced Prostate Cancer: Updated Survival In The TAX 327 Study

Overlap Of Voiding Symptoms, Storage Symptoms And Pain In Men And Women

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