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“T-rays” may make X-rays obsolete as a means of detecting bombs on terrorists or illegal drugs on traffickers, among other uses, contends a Texas A&M physicist who is helping lay the theoretic groundwork to make the concept a reality. In addition to being more revealing than X-rays in some situations, T-rays do not have the cumulative possible harmful effects. Alexey Belyanin focuses his research on terahertz, otherwise known as THz or T-rays, which he says is the most under-developed and under-used part of the electromagnetic spectrum…

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Physicist Sees With "T-Rays"

Several maladaptive eating behaviors, beyond anorexia, can affect women. Indeed, some 10 to 15 percent of women have maladaptive eating behaviours and attitudes according to new study from the Université de Montréal and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. “Our results are disquieting,” says Lise Gauvin, a professor at the Université de Montréal Department of Social and Preventive Medicine. “Women are exposed to many contradictory messages…

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10 To 15 Percent Of Women May Be Affected By Disordered Eating

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a three-year grant of more than $1.2 million to The Scripps Research Institute to develop a series of high-throughput screening tests that will help speed the discovery of potential small molecule therapies for breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. Patrick Griffin, chair of the Scripps Research Department of Molecular Therapeutics and director of the Translational Research Institute at Scripps Florida, will lead the project as principal investigator. The grant will begin in January 2010…

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$1.2 Million Award For Treatments For Breast Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease

Scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston recently discovered a simple gene mutation that decreases the chance people will get a flesh-eating disease called necrotizing fasciitis. Further, they proved that inactivating this section of the gene lessens the devastating disease in humans. Results of this research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)…

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Mutant Gene Lessens Devastation Of Flesh Eating Bacteria

New Year’s resolutions often include quitting smoking. An essential factor in fulfilling this resolution is good planning according to AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce. Dr Pesce explained: “Giving up smoking is a common New Year’s resolution, and with good planning smokers can increase their chances of successfully quitting smoking forever.” “There are many ways to quit smoking and different methods will suit different people. For advice and support, see your GP who can talk you through the different methods and help with an approach that is best suited to you…

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New Year´s Promises To Quit Smoking Can Be Achieved With Good Planning

From a lethal distraction for drivers to dehumanizing personal interactions, text messaging has gotten a bum rap lately. But for doctors treating patients with chronic diseases, text messaging can be an invaluable tool, according to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center pediatrician Delphine Robotham. “For better or worse, this technology is here, and sending a text to a patient’s cell phone about an upcoming appointment or a test or simply to remind them to take their meds is a great example of how we can harness new communication technology for a greater good…

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DID U TK UR MEDS? – - Texting Can Improve Meds Use, Chronic Disease Treatment

This new year, make a resolution to improve your health and talk to your doctor about urologic conditions. Although urologic problems may seem embarrassing to talk about, these conditions are more common than you think and a delay in seeking medical attention could cause you unnecessary stress, prolong the problem and even increase your risk for a more serious condition. Experts at the American Urological Association (AUA) and the AUA Foundation recommend talking to your doctor about bladder, prostate or sexual health concerns…

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Resolve To Improve Your Urologic Health In The New Year

A vascular surgical technique pioneered at UT Southwestern Medical Center and designed to replace infected aortic grafts with the body’s own veins has proved more durable and less prone to new infection than similar procedures using synthetic and cadaver grafts. Aortic graft infections are one of the most serious complications in patients undergoing aortic grafting procedures for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and aortic aneurysms…

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Body’s Own Veins Provide Superior Material For Aortic Grafts

Imagine this future of personalized healthcare: you have been diagnosed with a disease for which there are five different treatments, your doctor feeds your genetic details into a computer, and the virtual human in the machine suggests which of the five is likely to be most effective and have fewer side effects for you personally…

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Virtual Humans And The Future Of Personalized Healthcare

UroToday.com – Ours is a retrospective review of patients who underwent open retroperitoneal lymph node dissection between 2001-2008. We identified perioperative data for patients who underwent primary (P-RPLND) versus post-chemotherapy RPLND (PC-RPLND) and found mean blood loss, operative duration and hospital stay to be significantly less for the former group (P This contemporary data should be considered when comparing open versus laparoscopic RPLND (L-RPLND)…

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Morbidity Of Open Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection For Testicular Cancer: Contemporary Perioperative Data