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A profile of pedophilia: A comprehensive special article offers new insight and help
04-09-2007 · EurekAlert!National attention about pedophilia has grown because of recent high-profile cases of child sexual abuse.
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- RAND researchers offer options to improve immigrant health care quality, access
09-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Expanding opportunities for immigrants to obtain legal residency and citizenship may be the best option to offer them better access to health care, according to an article published today by the RAND Corp. in the journal Health Affairs.The article from RAND Health, "Immigrants and Health Care: Sources of Vulnerability," appears in a special issue of Health Affairs that looks at a how to improve health care for vulnerable populations.
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- Homing pigeons get their bearings from their beaks
03-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
It has long been recognized that birds possess the ability to use the Earth’s magnetic field for their navigation, although just how this is done has not yet been clarified. However, the discovery of iron-containing structures in the beaks of homing pigeons in a study (1) by Gerta Fleissner and her colleagues at the University of Frankfurt offers a promising insight into this complex topic. The article will be published online mid-March in Springer’s journal Naturwissenschaften.
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- Yale study offers insight into possible cause of lymphoma
02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
The immune system's powerful cellular mutation and repair processes appear to offer important clues as to how lymphatic cancer develops, Yale School of Medicine researchers report this week in Nature.
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- Drug/intervention combinations offer benefit in severe CVD
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
While millions of Americans suffer from severe cardiac dysfunction, only about 3,000 heart transplants are possible each year. In the meantime, doctors are trying to identify new combinations of medicines and interventions that will increase survival rates among this high-risk population. Research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 56th Annual Scientific Session offers new insight into the most effective therapies for patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction, cardiogenic shock and perioperative hypertension.
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- Study offers innovative profile of enzyme that aids tumor growth
10-20-2006 · EurekAlert!
Using an innovative profiling strategy, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have characterized an enzyme that is "highly elevated" in aggressive human tumor cells. When the enzyme, KIAA1363, was inactivated, it impaired tumor growth and migration in both ovarian and breast cancer cells, suggesting that inhibitors of this enzyme may prove valuable in the treatment of multiple types of cancer.
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- Panel offers guidelines on skin reactions to new class of cancer drugs
05-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Skin reactions to a powerful new class of anti-cancer drugs are frequent, but manageable through a simple and rational treatment approach -- usually without the need to reduce the dose or interrupt treatment with potentially life-prolonging chemotherapy, according to an article in the May issue of "The Oncologist."
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- Young cancer survivors at risk for behaviors that raise future cancer risk
01-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
A significant number of young survivors of childhood cancers smoke, are physically inactive and/or don't use sunscreen, according to researchers at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. While these behaviors can be a future cancer risk to adolescents who have not had cancer, they can pose special peril to those who have been treated for the disease, investigators say.
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- New prion protein discovered by Canadian scientists may offer insight into mad cow disease
08-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists have discovered a new protein that may offer fresh insights into brain function in mad cow disease
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- Withdrawn MS drug returns to market
05-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
Just months after receiving FDA approval, natalizumab, a medication for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory disorders, was voluntarily withdrawn by its manufacturers after three patients developed a brain infection known as Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy. Natalizumab has recently been reapproved by the FDA, and a comprehensive article published in the latest issue of CNS Drug Reviews provides a timely overview of the drug, its pharmacological properties, clinical efficacy, safety and toxicology.
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- New research review shows that your family doctor may be the key to quitting smoking
11-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health are defining the most effective ways to treat tobacco dependence. In a recent research review, they highlight the surprisingly significant role that the health practitioner can play in helping people quit smoking, as well offer a comprehensive summary of tobacco use, causes of nicotine dependence, and advances in treatment and intervention.
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