Music Hath Charms to Calm Hypertension But the finding isn't meant to encourage patients to throw out their medications Death Gap Widens Between Educated and Those Not Socioeconomic inequalities blamed for increasing disparity overall, study finds Blood-Thinner No Help for Dialysis Treatment Plavix didn't improve results for patients who underwent circulatory procedure Coupled With Mammography, Ultrasound Finds More Breast Cancers But, false-positive rate may be too high for some women, study suggests
Clinical Trials Update: May 13, 2008
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- Crohn's Disease
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Familial Breast Cancer Risk Lasts a Lifetime for Sisters But, exercise helps prevent the disease, two additional studies report
Quality Lags at Safety-Net Hospitals Lack of money prevents hospitals that treat the poor from improving, study finds DNA Fingerprinting Could ID Viable Embryos Finding may lead to improved pregnancy rates for in vitro patients, fewer multiple pregnancies Therapy Yields Promise for Fatal Neurological Condition Using harmless cold virus, injecting healthy gene into brain slowed Batten disease Beta Blockers Raise Stroke, Death Risk After Surgery Experts note doses of the blood-pressure drugs given in the study were probably too high High-Tech Imaging No Better for Diagnosing Head/Neck Cancers New type of PET scan same as MRI, CT for false positives, study found No Link Between Coarse Air Pollution, Hospitalizations Finding might impact EPA's clean air regulations, researchers say Breast-feeding Might Shield Women From Rheumatoid Arthritis Childbearing had no such benefit if baby was bottle-fed, researchers noted |