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Pint-size microRNAs show promise against weighty problem, researchers say

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(Medical Xpress)—Tiny strands of RNA affect how our cells burn fat and sugar—a finding that gives biologists a place to start in the quest for therapies to treat obesity and related health problems, said scientists… Continue reading

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Biomarker predicts recovery from a type of depression

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Half of the participants received monthly treatments of the rheumatoid arthritis drug, Janssen's Infliximab, and half received a placebo. Overall, Infliximab did not seem to work. However, when Miller's team analysed how the subset of… Continue reading

National Experts in Chronic Pain Treatment and Drug Monitoring to Discuss

National Experts in Chronic Pain Treatment and Drug Monitoring to Discuss

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John F. Peppin, D.O., F.A.C.P., Associate Medical Director, Hospice of the Bluegrass;; Steven D. Passik, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center;; Paul J. Christo, M.D., M.B.A., Associate Professor, The… Continue reading

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Stem cells in tumors may fuel cancer regrowth, new studies suggest

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Study: Stem cells boost brain tumor treatments. The studies … But researcher Luis Parada, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, believes his team is onto something. … Collectively,… Continue reading

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Most older breast-cancer patients may benefit from radiation therapy

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The study, published Monday morning in the journal Cancer, largely contradicts current breast-cancer treatment guidelines, which call for estrogen-blocker drug treatment but not radiation after breast-conserving lumpectomy surgery. Conducted by …
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Officer out of hospital after Brazos Co. shootings

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A Central Texas police officer wounded in a deadly gunbattle is out of the hospital as mourners prepare to remember a slain constable. A spokeswoman at College Station Medical Center said… Continue reading

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New legislation will help develop drugs for sick kids

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"Therefore, speeding up the approval process increases the profitability of that drug," according to Eugenie Kleinerman, M.D., head of pediatrics at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The industry and economists estimate the shortened… Continue reading

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The painful new trend in Medicare

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Doctors say observation patients typically get appropriate treatment in the hospital. At stake for … Says Alice Bers, an attorney with the Center for Medicare Advocacy: "What seems like it should be a technical billing issue has… Continue reading