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Blass earns win over 'disease' (Today's Tribune-Review)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:02:01 GMT

In 1974, Steve Blass was mired in one of the more confounding falls from grace in sports history. He was an ace pitcher who swiftly and inexplicably lost the ability to pitch.

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AP: Your life is a disease. Barack Obama is the cure. (Doug Ross @ Journal)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:01:00 GMT

Could the AP -- and pro journalist Pauline Arrillago -- be any more obvious? Happy birthday, America? This year, we're not so sure. The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. Young or old, Republican or Democrat, economically stable or struggling, Americans are questioning where they are and where they are going. And they wonder who or what might ride to their

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Local Medical Firm Tackles Rare Diseases (Red Orbit )

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:00:05 GMT

By Melissa Evans After years of clinical trials and research, Dr. Yutaka Niihara came up with a treatment for sickle cell anemia that was so simple he almost didn't believe it.

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Weekly Posts from IC Disease - 6/29/08 (Fighting Fatigue)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:00:41 GMT

I can’t honestly remember a time in my life when I didn’t have to go to the bathroom much more than everyone else I knew. As a teenager, it was actually a running joke with a close friend of mine that I owed her family cases of toilet paper. I lived about five minutes away [...]

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Stone Disease - Randomized Clinic Trials Suggest Lack Of Benefit To Alpha Blocker Therapy For Ureteral Calculi (Medical News Today)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - (Reported from the Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association) There were several randomized clinic trials that suggested a lack of benefit to alpha blocker therapy for Ureteral calculi. Abstract 1491 evaluated tamsulosin vs placebo and Abstract 1410 compared alfuzosin to placbo in untreated patients trying to pass a Ureteral stone.

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Abstracts Discussing The Treatment Of Peyronie's Disease - Reported From The Annual Meeting Of The American Urological Association (Medical News Today)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Several abstracts discussed the treatment of Peyronie's disease. The vast majority of men will have medical management for their Peyronie's disease. There were no discernible predictive factors for those men who have a good or bad outcome. Shockwave therapy was not effective in Peyronie's disease. However, after surgical correction of the plaque, men...

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Aubrey de Grey on Aging 2008, the disease, the cure and the implications (Pimm - Partial immortalization)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:41:50 GMT

This is how my Macbook saw Aubrey de Grey’s talk exactly 1 week ago on the AGING preconference at UCLA.

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Doctor Raises Awareness With 2,400-Mile Run: British Dermatologist Runs Route 66 to Educate People of the Genetic Skin-Disease Psoriasis (Red Orbit )

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:00:41 GMT

In her 20 years as a dermatologist, Condon has seen some sad cases. The disease is not contagious and is believed to be genetic, Condon said. Although there are a number of treatments, there is no cure. Psoriasis may not be lifethreatening, but it can make life miserable.

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Child has one in 7 billion genetic disease (News.com.au)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT

TRAVIS Holdsworth is the only person in the world with his genetic illness, medical experts believe.

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Calls for Canadian lyme disease test improvements (News1130 - All News Radio)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:16:42 GMT

People suffering from Lyme Disease have gathered in front of the offices of the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons. They want improvements in the way the condition is diagnosed in BC. When Peter ...

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French EU Presidency Makes Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease A Priority (Medical News Today)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT

At a joint press conference with Commission President Barroso on 2 July 2008 highlighting the priorities of the French Presidency, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the commitment of the French Presidency to the development of a European Alzheimer's Plan.

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Black AIDS Institute HIV/AIDS Card Could Help Stop The Spread Of The Disease In The Community, Columnist Says (Medical News Today)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT

The Black AIDS Institute "may have come up with a strategy that could make a difference" and "help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS" in the black community, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell writes. As part of BAI's "Test 1 Million" initiative, the institute has developed a card that certifies that an individual has been tested for HIV in the last six months.

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Paul Thomas : Mugabe merely a symptom of continent-wide disease (New Zealand Herald )

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:00:14 GMT

These days, obscene is an overused word. Once It was a stuffy legal term meaning dirty in the sexual sense, as in the Obscene Publications Act. What we now refer to as "Having a Jimmy" - acting like a complete pork chop at four in...

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Www.OSIR.org.in - WHO report says sanitation crucial for tackling water-borne disease - Thaindian.com (www.OSIR.org.in)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:30:26 GMT

Washington, July 3 (ANI): A WHO (World Health Organization) report has determined that effective and affordable interventions that provide the global population with access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation are needed if water-borne Source: www.thaindian.com Environmental News Network (ENN) - CSR WireThe Environmental News Network (ENN) is the oldest, unbiased source of [...]

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Take a Bite Out of Lyme Disease (ABC News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:13:05 GMT

How to avoid and recognize the tick-borne disease.

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Doctor's warning over signs of the 'silent bone disease' (East Grinstead Courier)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:31:55 GMT

The consultant rheumatologist and physician said: "It's such a common disease and affects so many people. But they put up with the pain because they see it as just getting old."What I want to say is stop being so fussy and go and get checked out, because there are many ways in which we can treat the problem."Osteoporosis occurs when the bones start to thin out, leaving them more susceptible...

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Baseline serum urate levels correlate with disease progression in PD (Nature Publishing Group)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:45:00 GMT

Baseline serum urate levels correlate with disease progression in PD Nature Clinical Practice Neurology 4, 348 (2008). doi:10.1038/ncpneuro0813

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ATL/TV1102, A Novel Drug For The Treatment Of Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis, Demonstrated Significant Reduction In Disease Activity (Medical News Today)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: Teva) and Antisense Therapeutics Ltd. (ASX: ANP) announced that ATL/TV1102, a novel, anti-sense drug, significantly reduced disease activity in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase IIa study met its primary endpoint showing a significant reduction by 54.4% (p=0.

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Cambridge University Research Reveals How Chronic Disease Epidemic Could Lead To Economic Slowdown In The Developing World (Medical News Today)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

The developing world is being infested by Western-style social health problems such as obesity and "couch-potato" living, which could ultimately widen the global gap between rich and poor, new research suggests.

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Treatment delays result in poor outcomes for men with breast cancer (Eurekalert)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Men who develop breast cancer are often not treated until the disease has spread to the point that treatment becomes difficult, new results show. Although most breast cancer patients are women, men make up roughly 1 percent of cases, Dr. Marina Garassino from the Orion Collaborative Group reports at the ESMO Conference Lugano, organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology.

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