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Bone scan reveals estrogen effects

Using a scanning technology called microcomputerized tomography, scientists have a new way to look at the difference between bone exposed to estrogen and bone deprived of it.

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Common antibiotic may cure river blindness

Tests in cows suggest that tetracycline might kill the tiny worm that spreads river blindness, a disease that infects about 18 million people.

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Imaging Parkinson’s

A new brain-imaging technique can supply proof of Parkinson's disease in people whose symptoms fall short of the standard definition of the disease.

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Zapping bone brings relief from tumor pain

By unleashing radio waves inside bone, researchers have stopped intractable pain in people with cancer that has spread to their skeletons.

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Bilirubin: Both villain and hero?

Bilirubin, which causes jaundice in newborns, may protect against cellular damage.

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In Silico Medicine

Medical researchers are increasingly turning to computer simulations to help them understand the complexity of living systems, design better drugs, and treat patients more effectively.

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An alternate approach to Parkinson’s

While levodopa is the treatment of choice for Parkinson's disease, drugs called dopamine agonists, which mimic the neurotransmitter dopamine, may work as well early in the disease, cause fewer side effects, and preserve levodopa's effectiveness.

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Bypass surgery in elderly works fine

Coronary bypass surgery works as well in people over age 75 as it does in people 15 years younger.

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Home Cooking on the Wane

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Passover are among the few holidays on which home-cooked meals remain the norm. On most other days of the year, a large and growing share of U.S. diners happily leave the cooking of at least one meal to professionals. Eating in. Eating out. Home cooking used to signify meals with a healthy […]

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Cluster Bombs: Metabolic syndrome tied to heart disease deaths

Men with a certain cluster of metabolic characteristics are about three times as likely to die of heart disease as men without the traits are.

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Jarring Result: Extreme biking can hurt men’s fertility

Men who maintain grueling mountain-bicycling programs are apt to have lower sperm counts than nonbikers are.

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Keeping the beat

Muscle cells taken from embryonic rats and put into an adult rat's heart can transmit the electric signals that govern the heartbeat.