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• High Cholesterol Can Trigger Prostate Cancer

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 128
  High cholesterol may dramatically increase the risk of high-grade prostate cancer according to a new study.  As with most cancers, prevention may be the best cure.Prostate cancer is deadly when it’s in what is known as the “high-level” stage, where the cancer spreads rapidly into bones and lymph nodes. This ...
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• Kids exposed to passive smoking have higher nicotine levels

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 6 (IANS) Children exposed to second hand smoke at home have higher levels of nicotine in their bodies, new research shows.The research, published in ‘Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention’, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the initiative for a home smoking ...
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• General Dynamics C4 Systems Names James Norton Director of Homeland Security and Federal Strategies — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 438
  General Dynamics C4 Systems Names James Norton Director of Homeland Security and Federal Strategies SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ — General Dynamics C4 Systems has named James Norton as director of Homeland Security and Federal Strategies as part of the company’s continued commitment to provide mission ...
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• How ‘Twist’ fuels breast cancers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 5 (ANI): A research team led by Indian-origin researcher from John Hopkins University has identified a protein produced by a gene called ‘Twist’, that when present, drives aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cells.In the experiments, Hopkins team focused on the gene ...
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• Potential new twist in breast cancer detection

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publishing in the December issue of Neoplasia have shown that a protein made by a gene called "Twist" may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish stem cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cells. ...
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• Weight Loss Surgery News – December 4, 2009

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 128
  Check out this week’s WLS News to learn the effect our nation’s obesity epidemic could have on health care costs by the year 2018. Doctors are doing the math and the answer isn’t pretty. Plus, we’ll tell you how men can reduce their risk of prostate cancer, and explain the link between obesity in women [...]
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• Asthma, pre-term labour drugs may increase autism risk in developing fetus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Drugs commonly prescribed for the treatment of asthma and pre-term labour in pregnant mothers might put kids at an increased autism risk, reveals a new study.Beta 2 adrenergic agonist drugs are widely used in obstetrics as tocolytics to inhibit or slow down labour and bronchodilators, but may ...
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• Treatments for asthma and pre-term labor may increase risk of autism in developing fetus

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  New York, NY, December 2, 2009 -- Commonly prescribed beta 2 adrenergic agonist drugs for the treatment of asthma in pregnant women as well as pre-term labor may increase the incidence of autism-spectrum disorders, psychiatric pathology, cognitive problems and poor school performance in their children, according to a ...
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• More than 1,000 patients in US admitted annually for aviation-re...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) The first ever published study of aviation-related injuries and deaths in the US finds that more than 1,013 patients are admitted to US hospitals with aviation-related injuries annually, and that 753 aviation-deaths occur each year. The study also reports ...
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• Smartphones may help diagnose acute appendicitis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 30 (ANI): Using a handheld device or mobile phone equipped with special software, radiologists can accurately diagnose acute appendicitis from a remote location, according to a new study.Asim F. Choudhri, lead author and fellow physician in the Division of Neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins University, ...
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• Now, mobile phones can diagnose acute appendicitis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 30 (IANS) Radiologists can diagnose acute appendicitis from a remote location with the use of a mobile phone equipped with special software.“The goal is to improve the speed and accuracy of medical diagnoses, as well as to improve communications among different consulting physicians,” said Asim F. ...
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• Smart phones allow quick diagnosis of acute appendicitis

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  CHICAGO -- Radiologists can accurately diagnose acute appendicitis from a remote location with the use of a handheld device or mobile phone equipped with special software, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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• Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. That much is known. Very little, however, is known about how the drug works at the molecular level.
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• Thanksgiving Pulpit Used to Attack Suffrage

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 468
  The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church took the opportunity of his Thanksgiving Day sermon yesterday to attack the campaign for womens right to vote, by attempting to denigrate some of those who support it.
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• AAA calls on PA Legislators to limit passengers for teen drivers

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 155
  Tragic Chester County Crash Illustrates Dangers of Too Many Teens in a Car with a Teen Driver AAA Mid-Atlantic calls on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass legislation limiting the number of teen passengers for teen drivers. Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have passenger restrictions - not ...
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• Burned out, depressed surgeons more likely to commit more major medical errors

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  Surgeons who are burned out or depressed are more likely to say they had recently committed a major error on the job, according to the largest study to date on physician burnout.
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• Johns Hopkins researchers track down protein responsible for chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  A protein known to stimulate blood vessel growth has now been found to be responsible for the cell overgrowth in the development of polyps that characterize one of the most severe forms of sinusitis, a study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests.
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• New drug target may help treat chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 23 (ANI): Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a protein that is responsible for causing chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps.Chronic sinusitis, a constant irritation and swelling of the nasal passages, is a common condition thought to affect about one out of every six people. This problem has ...
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• Sweet -- sugared polymer a new weapon against allergies and asthma

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  Scientists at Johns Hopkins and their colleagues have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks. Their advance is a significant step toward crafting pharmaceuticals to fight these often life-endangering conditions in a new way.
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• How safe are our college campuses?

  
  Exhibit A Baltimore — Authority: 116
  The Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University usually is peaceful, but campus and city police watch for crime. Early on a quiet Sunday morning, Nov. 15, the administration building at Towson University was overrun with police, fire and emergency vehicles. About 120 people were involved but, luckily, there was no ...
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