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Genomic 'Fingerprint' For Alcohol-Induced Heart Failure Identified By Scientists
05 May 2008
A person with dilated cardiomyopathy has an enlarged and stretched heart cavity, usually too weak to pump normally; most people will go on to develop heart failure. While clinicians know that up to 36 percent of all cases of...
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Obesity Following Kidney Transplantation And Steroid Avoidance Immunosuppression
03 May 2008
UroToday.com - Over the last decade, steroid sparing immunosuppressant protocols have become widely used in renal transplantation. One of the motivating factors behind the development of steroid sparing protocols has been...
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New Approaches To Islet Transplantation In Type 1 Diabetes
02 May 2008
Researchers from 11 medical centers in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway have begun testing new approaches to transplanting clusters of insulin-producing islets in adults with difficult-to-control type 1 diabetes...
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