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Five outstanding faculty and postdoctoral fellows at four New York-area academic institutions have been named winners of the second annual New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
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Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have identified pathways by which a reduced-calorie diet and exercise can modify a postmenopausal woman's risk of breast cancer.
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The Medicines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO) announced that a prospective analysis of the ACUITY (Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage StrategY) trial showed that total hospital stay costs were lowest with Angiomax monotherapy (mean difference range: $184 to $1,081, p New England Journal of
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Over the years, hunting for cancer-related genes and understanding how they work has been an important, although time-consuming, exercise. At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), five different research groups have now combined their expertise to speed up the rate of discovering cancer-related genes and validating their function in living animals.
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Between the ages of six months and six years old, close to 90 percent of children have at least one sleep-related problem. Among the most common issues are night terrors, teeth-grinding and bed-wetting. For the majority, it's simply a stage that passes.
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In a cross-Tasman first, Australia and New Zealand have collaborated with a joint approach to the development of treatment guidelines for cancer, to be launched today (19/11) at the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting in Sydney.
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Cancer patients in Newcastle, NSW, have been taking part in a unique Australian trial to record levels of pain and distress using touchscreen technology. When out-patients see their doctor at Calvary Mater Newcastle, they use touchscreen computers to complete pain and distress "thermometers", as well as a brief psychological assessment.
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Online support communities for high survival rate cancers contain a greater amount of emotional support content than online support communities for cancers with low survival rates, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.
