Artificial Insemination Increasingly Second Choice
California fertility specialists are edging away from a traditional and well-known infertility treatment -- artificial insemination -- saying newer and improving in vitro fertilization technology tends to cost less and work far better in the long run, ultimately saving patients time, money and heartache.
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Clinicians Now Have Better Tools To Help Smokers Quit
An updated clinical practice guideline released by the US Public Health Service has identified new counseling and medication treatments that are effective for helping people quit smoking.
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Preference For Alcohol In Teens May Lead To Heavy Drinking
Scientists have shown a connection between early drinking patterns and a tendency to be a heavy drinker in adulthood, in a study of adolescent rats.
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Quit Line expands services for smoking pregnant women
Quitting smoking is one of the best things a woman can do to protect her own health and the health of her baby. More than 8,700 babies are born each year in Washington to smoking mothers.
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Fighting Allergy, Asthma In Your Home
Having a plan of action for avoiding allergy and asthma catalysts will let you focus on more important things, not on your symptoms.
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Quit Smoking And Your Death Risk Is Reduced
Many people have heard about the benefits of health when they quit smoking. While millions of people die annually because of smoking, here are some facts from JAMA study on how your health improves when you stop smoking.
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First Human Implants Of NuNec Cervical Arthroplasty Device Placed
Pioneer Surgical Technology announced the successful human implantation of its next generation cervical total disc replacement, NuNec Cervical Arthroplasty Device.
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Telemedicine Could Decrease Expensive Emergency Department Visits
Nearly 28 percent of all visits to the pediatric emergency department could have been replaced with a more cost-effective Internet doctor's 'visit.'
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Studies Test New Approaches To Islet Transplantation
Researchers have begun testing new approaches to transplanting clusters of insulin-producing islets in adults with difficult-to-control type 1 diabetes.
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Scientists Develop New Way Of Creating Human Antibodies
Scientists are developing a new way of quickly creating human antibodies - called monoclonal antibodies.
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Turning On Cell-Cell Communication Wipes Out Staph Biofilms
University of Iowa researchers have succeeded in wiping out established biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus (staph) by hijacking one of the bacteria's own regulatory systems.
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When Doctors Tell Patients To Quit Smoking, They Listen
Doctors who take a few minutes to talk with patients about their smoking - maybe passing along a leaflet or a sample of nicotine gum - make a difference when it comes to helping them quit successfully.
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Mouse Adult Stem Cells Developed Into Heart, Blood Cells
Researchers have succeeded in inducing stem cells grown from mouse skin cells to differentiate into functioning cardiovascular and blood cells.
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deCODE Discovers Genetic Variants Influencing Bone Mineral Density
Scientists report the discovery of five single letter variants at five different sites in the human genome that impact bone mineral density and predispose to fracturing of bones.
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R1626 - Hepatitis C Polymerase Inhibitor Demonstrated Improvement In A Study
Roche's investigational therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus infection, R1626, has shown a significant end-of-treatment response rate when given in combination with PEGASYS and COPEGUS.
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Xibrom Combination Therapy With Lucentis Successful
Study that was designed to evaluate the adjuvant use of Xibrom 0.09% in Lucentis treatment of choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration showed promising results.
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Five Myths About Quitting Smoking
Quitting smoking can be hard, but people's rationales for continuing to smoke are often rooted in pure myth.
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Researchers Find Gene Determinants Of C-Reactive Protein
Variation in several genes that are associated with metabolic and inflammatory regulation also have significant effects on C-reactive protein (CRP) levels.
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Proteins Can Also Generate New Proteins
A crucial communications pathway in cells not only stops cells from making proteins, it also makes them go.
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Artificial blood linked to increased deaths, heart attacks
Developing blood substitude is a great medical advance, but a new study raises some serious concerns about the rush to bring these artificial blood substitutes to the market.
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Studies Showed Higher SVR For PEGASYS Plus Ribavirin Successful In Treating Hepatitis C
Roche's three studies indicate that chronic hepatitis C patients who received PEGASYS plus ribavirin had a greater chance of achieving a sustained virological response than patients on peginterferon alfa-2b.
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Poor Sexual Health Must Be Addressed
Helping people making informed choices about their sexual health and reducing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases will be the key focus of a new strategy.
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Pledge Catches Culprits In Dust That Cause Allergies
Sneezing, sniffling, coughing and wheezing -- spring allergy season has arrived.
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Perrigo FDA Approved To Market Nicotine Gum
The Perrigo Company has received approval from FDA to market over-the-counter Nicotine Polacrilex Gum USP, 2 mg and 4 mg (Orange, Coated).
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Doctors Should Consider Alternatives To Antibiotics For Sinusitis
When suffering through a sinus infection, many people ask for an antibiotic to speed their recovery.
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FOOTPRINT PK Suture Anchor For Shoulder Repair Launched
Smith & Nephew's Endoscopy Division launched the FOOTPRINT PK Suture Anchor, a system used to attach rotator cuff tissue to bone in the shoulder.
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Tubbs Jones Encourages STD Prevention
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones introduced a bi-partisan resolution urging the House of Representatives to focus greater attention on activities related to the prevention, screening and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STD).
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Analysis Warns Over Quality Health Care in EU
European citizens cannot be guaranteed that the health care they will receive in another part of the European Union (EU) is of high quality.
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Uptake of HPV vaccine in adolescent girls is encouraging
Seven in ten girls are likely to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) when national UK vaccination programme comes into effect.
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Micromet Initiates Trial For Solid Tumor Treatment
Micromet starts phase 1 clinical trial with its BiTE antibody MT110. The study will explore the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and anti-tumor activity of MT110 in patients with lung and gastrointestinal cancers.
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PTC Therapeutics Initiates Trial Of PTC124 In Muscular Dystrophy
PTC Therapeutics initiates an international pivotal trial of PTC124 in patients with Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD) due to a nonsense mutation.
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MMC Completes Studies For Integrated Hematology, Automated Diabetes Testing Solution
Sysmex America announced the successful completion of Mercy Medical Center's (Canton, OH) beta studies for its integrated hematology and A1C automation solution.
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Elusys' Anthim Improves Survival Of Animals Treated After Active Anthrax Infection
Elusys Therapeutics announced pivotal animal efficacy results of Anthim, a high-affinity humanized and deimmunized monoclonal antibody targeting the anthrax toxin protective antigen.
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Discovery May Explain Smoking-Pancreatic Cancer Link
If lung cancer and heart disease aren't bad enough, cigarette smokers are also at higher risk for developing, among other things, pancreatic cancer.
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Scientists Deconstruct Process Of Bacterial Division
Researchers have made a major advance in understanding how bacteria divide.
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Menstrual Blood A Valuable Source For Regenerative Medicine
Researchers have found menstrual blood to be a potentially unlimited, noncontroversial, easily collectable, and inexpensive source for of stem cells for use in regenerative medicine.
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U.S. And China At Loggerheads Over Contaminated Heparin
Health officials in the U.S. appear to be at loggerheads with Chinese officials over the contamination of the blood-thinning drug Heparin.
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Canada: Taking Action On Bisphenol A - Another Chemical Of Concern
Government is taking action to protect the health of Canadians and the environment from another chemical of concern.
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Keep An Eye On Allergies This Season
An estimated 50 million Americans suffer from the miseries of allergies, with allergic reactions involving the eyes a common complaint.
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New Tools To Improve Patient Safety During Transitions Of Care
NTOCC Advisory Task Force authorized the release of recently developed tools for helping healthcare professionals and organizations address problems inherent in transitioning patients from one level of care to another.
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