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New app gives throat cancer patients their voice back

Vlastimil Gular’s life took an unwelcome turn a year ago: minor surgery on his vocal cords revealed throat cancer, which led to the loss of his larynx and with it, his voice Vlastimil Gular’s life took an unwelcome turn a

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When medicine makes patients sicker

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite the jackhammerlike rhythm of a mechanical ventilator, Alicia Moreno had dozed off in a chair by her 1-year-old’s hospital bed, when a doctor woke her with some bad news: The common stool softener her son,

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    FDA: Chocolates, candies may be contaminated with hepatitis A

    (HealthDay)—A public health alert about possible hepatitis A contamination in Modjeskas from Bauer’s Candies was announced Thursday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Consumers who
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    Moxibustion is a safe alternative treatment for insomnia

    Researchers from Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine have identified moxibustion to be a novel treatment for insomnia. Their findings, which appeared in BMC Complementary and Alternative
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    FDA chief wants more mail inspectors to stem opioid influx – ABC News

    The head of the Food and Drug Administration wants to more than double the number of packages his agency inspects for illicit drugs, an effort to
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    Abortion, free speech collide in Supreme Court dispute

    Informed Choices is what its president describes as a "life-affirming" pregnancy center on the edge of downtown Gilroy in northern California.
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    Blood pressure science paper in a pharmacology journal RETRACTED after data manipulation discovered

    A 2011 paper published in the British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP) has been retracted after it was found that data represented in the study were manipulated.
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    Chewing areca nut can prevent cancer

    Since ancient times, people from certain locations such as Africa and Asia have customarily chewed areca (betel) nuts to strengthen community ties. According to a study, the
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    Researchers map previously unknown disease in children

    Credit: CC0 Public Domain Two children from Europe and one from Canada, aged four, six and 10, suffer from a previously unknown disease that causes epileptic
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    Can you say conflict of interest? Synagro, nation’s largest biosludge producer, is a formal corporate partner of the Environmental Defense Fund

    Did you know that the nation’s largest producer of repurposed toilet waste, aka “biosolids,” is owned by an investment group that also maintains a “formal corporate

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    How procrastinators and doers differ genetically

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    Some people tend to postpone actions. In women, this trait is associated with a genetic predisposition toward a higher level of dopamine in the brain. This Read More »
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    First step to induce self-repair in the central nervous system

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    Damaged peripheral nerves can regenerate after an injury, for example, following a forearm fracture. Axons, the long projections of neurons that transmit stimuli or signals to Read More »
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    Focus on ovarian cancer surgical volume may not be best metric

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    Limiting ovarian cancer surgery to high-volume surgeons and hospitals to improve survival could restrict care at many low-volume centers with better-than-expected outcomes, according to a study Read More »
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    Annual mammography screenings aren't the best option for female survivors of some childhood cancers

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    Female survivors of childhood cancers who have been treated with thoracic radiation, such as survivors of Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL), have a higher risk of developing breast Read More »
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    Nurse combatting the 'Angelina effect' through new decision aid

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    Crystal Chu has grown accustomed to her patients’ sometimes-impulsive responses after they’re diagnosed with cancer in a single breast. “Cut them both off,” women often say Read More »
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