Being part of Creative Weblogging's team of bloggers provided that big BANG into my life. The big bang that initiated far better days to come. Thanks Creative Weblogging and thanks to the loyal...
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Before I totally forgot to submit an entry this time, the New year edition will be hosted on Tuesday by Dr. Rob Lamberts at Musings of the Distractible Mind. Shake out of your new year party hang...
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According to research findings reported by University of California, Los Angeles in the Dec. 21, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, there is a new imaging molecule that can detect and...
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by Gloria Gamat on December 30, 2006
Published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood (Fetal and Neonatal Edition) is about a small study which revealed that fish oil supplements given to pregnant mothers boost the...
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Developed by the US-based healthcare company, Abbott, the new compound called ABT-737 is currently being assessed at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia on its...
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Five new research projects that will hope to fully understand the association of antidepressant medications, particularly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), with suicidality (suicidal...
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Imagine a glucose-activated sensor that acts as a switch to decrease production of endogenous glucose in the liver, and increase conversion of glucose to fat for storage in adipose tissue....
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According to a new study published in the December 19 issue of Circulation (the journal of the American Heart Association), some black children already have high nighttime blood pressure which greatly...
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To fight infection, T cells are produced by the body. T cells have already been identified as two types (both produced in the thymus): effector T cells - the ones that attack infected cellsregulatory...
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Don't know about other parts of the world, but new year celebration here in the Philippines have turned dangerous over the years. We have this penchant on celebrating the new year with fireworks...
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by Gloria Gamat on December 29, 2006
As reported in the November issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a specific human enzyme that can cause the death of cancer cells have been identified by scientists at the...
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by Gloria Gamat on December 29, 2006
According to a new research from the Oregon State University published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, active individuals (college athletes and other...
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by Gloria Gamat on December 29, 2006
There is new research (in laboratory mice) from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University which suggests that supplementation of a phytochemical called Indole-3-Carbinol (I3C) provided a...
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The painful involuntary, spasmodic muscle contractions of the fingers, hand, or arm during writing and and other manual tasks is called writer's cramp. And I suffer from this very condition. The...
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The Grand Rounds Vol. 3 No. 14 came home to where it was first hosted: at Dr. Nick Genes' blogborygmi. Check it out and I hope you are enjoying the rest of the Christmas season like I do.......
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by Gloria Gamat on December 26, 2006
In British Medical Journal's Christmas issue, Doctors warned that the belief that mistletoe can help treat cancer is a myth and can actually cause harm. The said warning came about following the...
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Research teams in the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, based at Johns Hopkins University, using advances in robotics and...
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Alas, electricity in the Homestead has been restored December 22, 2006 at around 5 pm (GMT+8). It was pleasant surprise when I came back after four days of "ME" time 600 kilometers away....
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Prominent researcher Harold Sackeim of Columbia University is the nation's top electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) researcher who for the past 25 years have told patients that the controversial...
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As announced by Endocare, Inc., a large study published in the December 13, 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) confirms that men with early prostate cancer should...
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Deposits of amyloid beta proteins in the brain are one of the defining characteristics of Alzheimer's disease. The prevention or reduction of such deposits is what researchers hope for in...
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For me, all male doctors appear good looking, (well, ok)handsome rather. The white coat (plus the stethoscope hanging round their necks) and the very fact that they are God's instruments in saving...
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