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Where Are All the Miracle Drugs From Sequencing the Human Genome?
The human genome was sequenced about 13 years ago. We were supposed to have major medical advances in a decade.
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Blood pressure drug 'fights cancer'
A commonly used blood pressure drug could help fight cancer by opening up blood vessels in solid tumours.
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Naked mole rat may be ugly, but it could hold secret to longevity
The aesthetically challenged naked mole rat could offer clues to battling disease and slowing the effects of aging.
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Should I Be Getting Health Information From Wikipedia?
Students at UCSF can soon get course credit for editing medical Wikipedia articles, joining a group of medical professionals and others dedicated to improving available health information online.
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Time To Change How Twins Are Delivered?
The rate of twins being delivered via cesarean section has skyrocketed in the last few decades, but new research comparing twins born by a planned C-section and those born via a planned vaginal birth found no major benefits to the surgery.
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Can a drug make you tell the truth?
In movies and TV dramas, sodium thiopental is shown as a sinister truth serum used to get information out of captured people. Michael Mosley tried it out.
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25 breast cancer myths busted
Here are 25 myths about breast cancer accompanied by reality checks, ABC.com reported.
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How Studying Mummies Could Cure Modern Diseases
By comparing diseases from then and now, researchers can learn how they spread. Maybe they can learn how to stop them, too.
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5 Terrifying Potential Global Health Crises
Have you ever imagined what it would be like if villains could email a respiratory virus to the world? Do you drift to sleep at night dreaming of the health crises to come as octogenarians steadily expand their ranks?
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Why Do Doctors Abuse Prescription Drugs? 'Self-medication' is Key Reason
Doctors who abuse prescription drugs often do so for "self-medication"-whether for physical or emotional pain or stress relief, reports a study in the October Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
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Cats may be the key to developing a successful HIV vaccine for humans
In a new study published in the Journal of Virology, a cat AIDS virus protein was found to trigger an effective immune response in blood from HIV-infected humans. According to the researchers from the University of Florida and University of California, San Francisco, this finding could lead to the development of a successful AIDS vaccine for humans.
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Why Binge Drinking Makes You More Likely to Break Your Bones
For years, doctors have observed a strange effect of alcohol abuse: People who drink heavily are more likely break their bones, and the risk can’t be fully explained by more frequent careless falls and alcohol-induced car accidents.
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Work on 'cell traffic' and disease triggers wins Nobel prize
Three scientists won the Nobel medicine prize on Monday for plotting how cells transfer vital materials such as hormones and brain chemicals to other cells, giving insight into diseases such as Alzheimer's, autism and diabetes.
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UK firm seeks to market world's first malaria vaccine
British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is seeking regulatory approval for the world's first malaria vaccine after trial data showed that it had cut the number of cases in African children. Experts say that they are optimistic about the possibility of the world's first vaccine after the trial results.
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Are blood clots after surgery a sign of hospital quality?
Some policymakers have suggested using the number of patients that form blood clots after surgery as a measure of a hospital's quality. But a new study questions that idea.
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Pharma's David and Goliath in race to produce insulin pill
An insulin pill, long desired by diabetes doctors and patients but abandoned as not physically viable, could be available by the end of this decade as a tiny Israeli company races a Danish pharmaceutical giant to be first with what could be a multibillion-dollar product.
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Scientists find gene mutations linked to increased risk for eating disorders
Researchers have found two genetic mutations associated with an increased risk for eating disorders
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Marilyn Monroe plastic surgery notes, X-rays up for auction
A physician's notes on Marilyn Monroe that indicate that the Hollywood sex symbol had undergone cosmetic surgery will be up for sale next month along with a set of her X-rays, an auction house said on Tuesday.
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How Hospitals are Trying to Keep You Out of the Hospital
It’s hard to imagine that technology could be a friend to Obamacare, given the dismal performance of its official website last week. But it turns out that the high-speed crunching of a huge amount of information—aka Big Data—could ensure that one of the principle tenets of health care reform, known as “accountable care,” can become more than a catchy phrase in a policy paper.
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Bionic limbs will one day sense the grass under prosthetic feet
It sounds like something straight out of science fiction: artificial limbs that not only move, flex, and feel like their flesh counterparts, but also respond directly to one's thoughts and even translate sensory feedback - the feeling of grass beneath one's feet or the sensation of a limb floating in space - straight back to the brain.
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