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Saturday 25 October 2008
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Multiple Sclerosis Disease Activity Reduced After Taking Oral Fumarate
Written by Peter M Crosta
An article published in The Lancet reports successful results from a phase II trial for oral fumarate (BG00012). The drug was found to significantly reduce disease activity linked to relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis...
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Erectile Dysfunction May Predict Heart Attacks
Written by Peter M Crosta
An expert has written an article on bmj.com that suggests a link between heart attacks and erectile dysfunction. Dr Geoffrey Hackett (Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham, UK) says that erectile dysfunction gives a two to...
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US Doctors Use Placebo Treatments But Don't Always Inform Patients
Written by Anna Sophia McKenney
"Placebo treatments" are regularly prescribed by rheumatologists and internal medicine physicians, often without admitting the intention to the patients, according to a study released on October 24, 2008 on BMJ Online...
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Doctor Criticizes NHS Choice Of Cervarix Over Gardasil For HPV
How Healthy Is John McCain?
Other Medical and Health News for 25 October*
Popular imagePhysical Strength, Fighting Ability Revealed In Human Faces
Major Research Program On Natural Disasters Launched By International Council For Science
Nanomaterials May Have Large Environmental Footprint According To Yale Journal
Popular imageAfter King-Drew Medical Center's Closure Trauma Deaths Decline At Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Collaboration Between Leicester And South Korean Scientists Explains Plants' 'Double Fertilization' Process
Launch Of New Program To Understand The Human Impact On Earth's Life-Support Systems
For His Outstanding Service To The Medical Community And To Patients With Liver Disease, Jefferson Doctor Named Transplant Surgeon Of The Year
A Whole New Form Of Life Produced By Earlier Global Warming
Science In China: Special Issue On Advances In New Generation Internet Architecture Research
Norhealth Leads The Way For Public Health Information Systems
Popular imageStem Cell Research To Benefit Horse Owners And Trainers
Long-Term Reproductive Success Results From Exposing Chicks To Maternal Stress
Popular imageAlcohol: A Life Sentence
Popular imageA Study Explains Why Some People Have A Better Head For Languages
Mouse Genes Guide Search For Human Anxiety Disorder Genes
Popular imageMinster Pharmaceuticals Plc Announces Positive Results From Phase II Trial Of Migraine With Aura
GenOdyssee Receives Broad Product Applications Protection In EU For Founding Natural Evolution Technology
PTC Announces Data Showing That PTC124 Causes Statistically Significant Improvements In Chloride Channel Function In Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Technique For Rapidly Reprogramming Adult Cells Into Stem Cells Published In PLoS Biology
Local Research Foundation Achieves Milestone In Fight Against Cancer
Popular imageArtificial Pancreas Could Revolutionize Treatment Of Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetics Learn From Doctors, Each Other, At Temple University
Program Cuts Glucose Levels Among Its 14,000 Diabetes Patients
Personalized Medicine For Monogenic Diabetes
Diabetes Education Experts Available
Researcher Helps Hispanics Find Better Ways To Live With Diabetes
Diabetes Is Growing Field Of Treatment For Pharmacists
Study Finds "Rotten Egg" Gas Key To Lowering Blood Pressure
Mechanism In Cells That Generate Malignant Brain Tumors May Offer Target For Gene Therapy
Even Mild Sleep Apnea Increases Cardiovascular Risk
Newly Discovered Mechanism Can Explain The Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
* Updated hourly, headlines marked as POPULAR are based upon the number of times they are viewed. Those marked as TOP RATED are based upon visitor ratings. Finally, those shown as NEW were published in the last hour.
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