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Title: Researchers ID Suite of Genes in Aging Process
Category: Health News
Created: 11/20/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/20/2008
Title: Electrolytes
Category: Procedures and Tests
Created: 2/25/2001 2:51:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 11/14/2008
Title: Electrolytes
Category: Procedures and Tests
Created: 2/25/2001 2:51:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 11/14/2008
Title: Vest Monitors ‘Individual’ Air Pollution
Category: Health News
Created: 11/13/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/13/2008
Title: Most Who Have Prediabetes Don’t Know It
Category: Health News
Created: 11/7/2008
Last Editorial Review: 11/7/2008
Title: Most Parents Don’t Overreact to Child Gene Tests
Category: Health News
Created: 11/6/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/6/2008
Title: Usher Syndrome
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 2/13/2001 1:04:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 10/31/2008
Tests Could Predict Benefit From Cancer Drugs
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) — What if a blood test or biopsy could predict if a cancer therapy will he
lp cure you, or only make you feel worse?
Tests like these, based on genes, proteins or other “molecular markers” may someday do just that for people battling colon, lung and pancreatic tumors, scientists reported at a news conference Tuesday. Read the rest on this Test
Technorati Tags: biopsy, blood test, cancer therapy, molecular markers
Exercise Improves Stroke Outcome
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, Oct. 23 (HealthDay News) — Recovering from a stroke is easier if you were physically active before the attack, a new Danish study finds
Researchers found that such patients had less severe strokes and a better chance of long-term recovery.
“Keeping fit will increase your chance of a life without stroke,” said lead researcher Dr. Lars-Henrik Kraru
p, from the Bispebjerg University Hospital in Copenhagen. “However, should you suffer a stroke, the chance is that it will be of milder severity, and you will make a better recovery.
Technorati Tags: lar-henrik krarup, stroke, stroke recovery
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have identified 26 genes associated with the mo
st common type of lung cancer, adenocarcinoma — more than doubling the number of genes known to play a role in the deadly disease.
Technorati Tags: adenocarcinoma, lung cancer, treating lung cancer