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Chinese doctors amputated a teenage girl's crushed legs on Thursday, the only way they could pull her alive from the wreckage of her school three days after an earthquake flattened swathes of the country's southwest.Yang Liu was trapped in what
Blocking parts of the nervous system that regulate body temperature can reduce hot flashes and improve sleep in survivors of breast cancer, researchers reported on Thursday.With the experimental nerve blocker therapy, the average number of hot flashes per week fell
Obesity is a well known risk factor for certain physical health problems, but a new study suggests that heavy adults also have higher rates of psychiatric disorders.Using data from a national health survey of more than 40,000 Americans, researchers found
A new weight loss drink that tastes like a milkshake significantly reduces appetite and could soon join Unilever's $400 million Slim-Fast weight-loss brand, the company's researchers said on Wednesday.A study showed that the drink, which works by trapping gas in
When first diagnosed with diabetes, roughly one in four children and teens in the US have a potentially life-threatening condition that makes their blood more acidic than normal, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics.Known as diabetic ketoacidosis, the
The stress and anxiety associated with receiving results of a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer is not relieved by using rapid PSA tests, but men still prefer to have their results quickly, results of a study indicate.Waiting for
High-doses of cholesterol-lowering statins that are "lipophilic"—meaning they are soluble in fats—may offer protection against cancer, according to a new study that found a significant reduction in the incidence of cancer in users of these statins.Examples of lipophilic statins are
Men who have developed erectile dysfunction (ED) following surgery for prostate cancer usually do not have insurance coverage for ED treatment even though their insurance policies cover surgery for prostate cancer, according to an analysis presented today at the 103rd
US adolescents who were adopted as infants are about twice as likely to have a disruptive behavior disorder as their non-adopted peers, research shows."Although most adopted American teens are psychologically healthy, adoptees appear to be at greater risk for some
Tasmania's Menzies Research Institute hopes a planned research project will help determine how quickly or how severely multiple sclerosis will progress in different people.
Men who drink more than 21 units of alcohol weekly and women who drink more than 14 units weekly are at higher risk of heart disease, heart failure and stroke, according to Irish researchers.
An updated clinical practice guideline released by the U.S. Public Health Service has identified new counseling and medication treatments that are effective for helping people quit smoking.
Researcher from Virginia Commonwealth University found that 43 percent of 744 college students surveyed said they had smoked tobacco from a hookah, or water pipe, during the past year, and 20 percent reported using a water pipe in the past
Background:Studying mitochondrial (mt) genomics has important implications for various fundamental areas, including mt biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology. In addition, mt genome sequences have provided useful markers for investigating population genetic structures, systematics and phylogenetics of organisms. Toxocara canis, Toxocara
Background:The most common substitution matrices currently used (BLOSUM and PAM) are based on protein sequences with average amino acid distributions, thus they do not represent a fully accurate substitution model for proteins characterized by a biased amino acid composition. This
