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S. Department of Energys Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.
Awareness that salsa and guacamole can transmit foodborne illness, particularly in restaurants, is key to preventing future outbreaks, Kendall, who worked on the study, said in a statement.
Salsa and guacamole often contain diced raw produce, including hot peppers, tomatoes and cilantro, each of which has [...]
Women can take five years aromatase inhibitor therapy
Aromatase inhibitors include anastrozole, made by AstraZeneca under the brand name Arimidex, exemestane, made by Pfizer Inc, under the brand name Aromasin and Novartiss Femara or letrozole.
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women, after lung cancer. It kills 500,000 people globally every year and is diagnosed in close to 1.3 [...]
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William Neal of West Virginia University in Morgantown, who led the new study.
Neal said treating youth with cholesterol-lowering drugs, the so-called statins, would curb the risk that they went on to develop heart problems in middle age. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the Western world.
Based on data from West Virginia, [...]
Glaxo is conducting a randomized
While the IOM did not target the Avandia trial in particular, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg asked the independent, nonprofit medical group to weigh in with at least an initial finding on general ethical issues involving the safety of studying the risks of drugs already in use.
The FDA called in 2007 for the TIDE study, which [...]
I more optimistic about aids vaccine point time have been
Gary Nabel of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.
Two of the antibodies can attach to and neutralize 90 percent of the various mutations of the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, Nabel said.
This is an antibody that evolved after the fact. That is [...]
We make new neurons every day in our brain
What our compound does in allow more of them to survive.
The compound is called P7C3 for now, and the researchers have already started tweaking it to make it more effective. They said it seems safe and appears to work even when taken as a pill.
The compound is similar to Medivation Inc and Pfizer Incs [...]
Unlike other food allergieswhich might disappear kids grow
Unlike other food allergieswhich might disappear as kids grow up or respond to doctor-supervised challenges allowing a child to build up a tolerance to the food — a peanut allergy usually lasts a lifetime, Shreffler and colleagues note in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. And the severity of reactions may vary widely one [...]
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Jersey Chen of Yale University School of Medicine, whose study appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
An advanced type of heart stress test called myocardial perfusion imaging, in which doctors inject a radioactive tracer in patients to test blood flow, accounted for 74 percent of radiation exposure from heart scans.
Heart catheterization [...]
We are encouraged significant increase colon cancer
Thomas Frieden told reporters in a telephone briefing.
But, he added, more than a third of Americans who need to be screened havent been screened.
CDC researchers analyzed survey results from the state-level 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey for the report, available at www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns.
They found colon cancer screening rates rose from 52 percent of those [...]
A major risk is birds infect pigs
A major risk is that the birds would infect pigs, which are suspected mixing vessels for new strains of influenzanotably the ongoing pandemic of H1N1 swine flu, the researchers wrote in the Biomed Central journal BMC Infectious Diseases, available here
What is significant about the work is that for a long time folks thought this was [...]