New research showing that vitamin D deficiency is common in patients with chronic migraine suggests that this patient group, like other vitamin D deficient populations, is at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, malignancy, and other serious illnesses that have been linked to low levels of this vitamin. Medscape Medical News

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Results of a large German population-based study of middle-aged men show that high uric acid levels are independently associated with both all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Reuters Health Information

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Fewer circulating tumor cells were significantly correlated with longer survival in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer. Medscape Medical News

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Short-term stress lasting as little as a few hours can impair brain-cell communication in areas associated with learning and memory, University of California, Irvine researchers have found.It has been known that severe stress lasting weeks or months can impair cell communication in the brain's learning and memory region, but this study provides the first evidence that short-term stress has the same effect.

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Steven Small, professor of neurology and psychology at the University of Chicago, and colleagues Ana Solodkin and John Milton, are among a group science writers and neuroscientists featured in Your Brain On Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans, a new book that explores how the brain functions when people participate in sports as athletes, coaches and fans.

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A 46-year-old woman was seen by a rheumatology consultant because of stiffness of the joints and skin. She had been well until 7 years earlier, when an episode of group A streptococcal pneumonia complicated by septic shock left her with chronic kidney disease and a painful peripheral neuropathy. Three years later, gradually progressive stiffness of the skin of her hands and feet developed, with pain and stiffness of the joints; renal failure worsened, and respiratory distress and congestive hear

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Related Articles Air Force dental assistants in forensic dentistry. Dent Assist. 2008 Jan-Feb;77(1):38-9 Authors: Hanks J PMID: 18333602 [PubMed - in process]

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St. Paul, Minn.—The legislation creating the Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner in Minnesota moved a step further March 13 when a state Senate finance subcommittee approved the bill in a 5-3 vote.

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Intraabdominal adhesions after uterine artery embolization. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008 May 15; Authors: Agdi M, Valenti D, Tulandi T OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to evaluate intraabdominal adhesions after uterine artery embolization (UAE). STUDY DESIGN: This was a case-control study of patients who underwent hysterectomy after UAE (UAE group) in the years 2000-2006. The control group consisted of patients who underwent hysterectomy for uterine myoma

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the FreeStyle Navigator(R) Continuous Glucose Monitoring System in the United States for people with diabetes. Designed to discretely and continuously measure glucose levels through a sensor in the back of the upper arm or abdomen, Abbott's FreeStyle Navigator system provides minute-by-minute information about which way and how quickly blood sugar levels are changing.

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Data from two Phase III clinical trials support that Asacol, an oral, non-steroidal medication that belongs to the class of agents known as 5-aminosalicylic acids (5-ASAs), is an effective and well-tolerated treatment for patients with all extents of ulcerative colitis (UC), including isolated proctitis. The results showed that patients with isolated proctitis who took Asacol, dosed at 2. [click link for full article]

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Scientists have made another major breakthrough -- the second in the past year -- in understanding a rare immune disorder called Job's syndrome. Job's syndrome is characterized by recurrent and often severe bacterial and fungal infections leading to outbreaks of abscesses and boils. Now, NIH scientists have shown that Job's sufferers lack a specific type of infection-fighting white blood cell called Th17 cell, making them vulnerable to attacks by bacteria and fungi.

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A team of researchers in Bedford, Mass. has developed a way of examining brain tissue with near-infrared light to detect signs of Alzheimer's disease.In the journal Optics Letters, published by the Optical Society of America, the team describes how they used optical technology to examine tissue samples taken from different autopsies and correctly identified which samples came from people who had Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's currently afflicts some 4.

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Related Articles Relation between fasting glucose and retinopathy for diagnosis of diabetes: three population-based cross-sectional studies. Lancet. 2008 Mar 1;371(9614):736-43 Authors: Wong TY, Liew G, Tapp RJ, Schmidt MI, Wang JJ, Mitchell P, Klein R, Klein BE, Zimmet P, Shaw J BACKGROUND: The WHO and American Diabetes Association criteria for diagnosing diabetes mellitus assume the presence of a glycaemic threshold with high sensitivity for identifying retino

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International Diabetes Federation's translation grant program, BRIDGES announces grant recipient in Egypt.

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc's controversial diabetes drug Avandia, that was linked to increased heart attack risk, may prove to be effective in preventing the progression of blockages after heart surgery to repair narrowing arter...

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Joseph Fritzl says he knew Elizabeth did not want him to do what he was doing to her - having sex with her - but it was "like an addiction". We added that he wanted to have children with her. He said he knew the whole time that was he was doing was wrong. He sometimes wondered whether he was crazy for doing such acts. However, his double life became quite "matter of fact", he says. He had two families, one upstairs and the other downstairs - two parallel lives.

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This disease, which deteriorates the alveolar tissue, does not have an effective treatment. Fibrosis prevents correct gas exchange in lungs, worsening quickly the quality of life of patients and eventually leading them to death in few years. Innovative pneumocytes transplantation has reverted the disease for the first time in rats. A clinical study will proof in humans the effectiveness of this world patented cells suspension.

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A commonly used medication that prevents blood clots from forming may also prevent existing clots from damaging delicate vein walls - and may accelerate healing in a clot-damaged area of vein wall, according to new research from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center.The findings, made in laboratory mice, add more evidence to support the aggressive anti-clot efforts now under way at American hospitals and nursing homes.

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A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital researchers may have found a key mechanism underlying idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a usually fatal lung disease for which transplantation is the only successful treatment.

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Doctors need to make it clear to patients that antibiotics will not get rid of the common cold, the government says.

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Black and Hispanic adults with insulin-treated diabetes are less likely than whites to monitor their blood glucose, according to a new study presented at the American Heart Association's 48th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.The disparities were greatest for low-income Hispanics, said Deborah A. Levine, M.D., M.P.H., lead author of the study.

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University of California, San Diego researchers have proven in animal studies that fibrosis in the liver can be not only stopped, but reversed. Their discovery, to be published in PLoS Online on Dec. 26, opens the door to treating and curing conditions that lead to excessive tissue scarring such as viral hepatitis, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, pulmonary fibrosis, scleroderma and burns.

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Bosentan, a dual endothelin receptor antagonist, may be a useful treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, especially biopsy-proven disease, according to a report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine for January. Reuters Health Information

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