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Blood test shows promise for detecting cancer
FOX 5 San Diego ReporterA blood test that could spot a single cancer cell among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office, researchers announced Monday. According to Johnson & Johnson, a $30-million investment in a new test that...Tags: Health, Human Body, Happiness (state of mind), Diseases and Illnesses, Science and Technology
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San Diego native shares Nobel Prize for medicine
FOX 5 San Diego StaffOne of the three American scientists sharing this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is a San Diego native, and another is a professor at the University of Calfornia. Carol W. Greider, who works at the Johns Hopkins University School of...Tags: Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), San Diego (San Diego, California), Carol W. Greider, Science, Health
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Dr. Mark E. Molliver, Hopkins neuroscientist
Dr. Mark E. Molliver, a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor emeritus of neuroscience and neurology, died of complications after cardiac arrest May 10 at Hopkins Hospital. The Canton resident was 75.
Colleagues said his discoveries had...Tags: Roland Park, Food and Drug Administration, Natural Resources, Wetlands, Health
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Sleepy surgical residents impaired, study says
Surgical residents were more fatigued than expected, especially on night rotations, according to a new study. A quarter of their waking time, they were the equivalent of being legally drunk, the study said. “Our fatigue levels were higher than we...Tags: Fatigue, Health, Science and Technology, Hospitals and Clinics
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Rod through Phineas Gage's brain caused more damage than thought
This post has been corrected. Please see note at bottom.The tamping rod that blew through Phineas Gage's brain 163 years ago damaged only a small portion of his brain, but it disrupted a much larger proportion of his neural connections, UCLA researchers reported Wednesday. The finding, based on imaging of...Tags: Medical Research, Health, University of California, Los Angeles, National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School
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Two paralyzed people successfully use robot arm
After years of work with primates and able-bodied humans, researchers have successfully demonstrated in paralyzed humans that an implanted electrode in the brain can successfully control the movement of a robot arm, allowing the patients to drink and...
Tags: Brain, Health, Human Body, National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School
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Laxative-free colonoscopy may soon be possible
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details. A colonoscopy is a life-saving procedure, identifying polyps and early-stage tumors so they can be removed before they grow and spread. But many people refuse to undergo the procedure...
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What is a fatty liver?
It's not enough that we simply have to worry about the fat that's increasingly growing around our bellies. Americans should also be concerned about the fat that they can't see: the stuff that's filling up their livers, more commonly known as Nonalcoholic...
Tags: Health, Genes and Chromosomes, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Pharmaceuticals, Diseases and Illnesses
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Weight-loss surgery effective against diabetes, studies show
In findings that promise radical changes in the care of the 20 million U.S. patients with Type 2 diabetes, two new clinical trials have shown that weight-loss surgery brings about dramatically greater improvement of blood sugar control in obese...Tags: Health, Pharmaceuticals, Dietary Supplements, Heart Attack, Amputation
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Reconstructing lives
jbahr@aberdeennews.comIt's not true that only wealthy socialites have cosmetic surgery. In fact, the clientele of Aberdeen’s lone plastic surgeon includes a number of farm wives. Dr. Sanjay Mukerji said plastic and cosmetic surgery patients are often not people who are...Tags: Surgery, Health and Medical Professionals, Plastic Surgeons, Washington, DC, Health
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Getting through grief
Losing a close friend or family member can be devastating. All the small details of daily life — getting out of bed, making meals, going to appointments, taking care of children, handling responsibilities at work — may seem monumentally hard...Tags: Health, Healthy Diet, Pharmaceuticals, Depression, Harvard Medical School
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Gregory John Daschle
Steam-boat Springs, Colo.: Gregory John Daschle, a former Aberdonian, died of brain cancer on Thursday, March 8, 2012, at 11 p.m. at the Doak Walker Care Center in Steamboat Springs. Greg was born on March 18, 1953, to Betty and Dash Daschle in...Tags: Brain, Health, Colleges and Universities, Doak Walker, Durham (Durham, North Carolina)
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