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Scottsdale Healthcare is the only Arizona hospital system testing a new under-the-skin device that uses an electrical shock to interrupt possibly fatal heart rhythms, restoring a normal heartbeat for patients at high risk of sudden cardiac arrest. The first Arizona patient received the device Thursday at Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center. Scottsdale Healthcare is the only Phoenix area hospital and one of only 35 in the world participating in the study…

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EUROECHO 2009 is the official congress of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE), where techniques of non-invasive diagnostic imaging will be presented. New case reports will be presented at this year’s Congress, with the latest evidence highlighting the role of this new technology. Now, with such rapid development in imaging techniques, it is likely that non-invasive imaging will gain more importance in clinical cardiology – and probable also that these more accurate tests will revolutionise the diagnostics of cardiac diseases in the near future…

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Results of a German study presented at the International Liver CongressTM 2010, the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Liver in Vienna, Austria, have shown that overall, treatment with high dose (23-28mg/kg/d) ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is no more effective than placebo in the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the most advanced form of non-alcoholic liver disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver …

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It is widely known that genetic mutations cause disease. What are largely unknown are the mechanisms by which these mutations wreak havoc at the molecular level, giving rise to clinically observable symptoms in patients. Now a new study using bioinformatics, led by scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research, reports the ability to predict the molecular cause of many inherited genetic diseases. These predictions involve tens of thousands of genetic disease-causing mutations and have led to the creation of a web-based tool available to academic researchers who study disease…

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US researchers found that people who consume higher amounts of added sugar, such as in processed foods and beverages, are also likely to have higher heart disease risk factors. You can read about the study by researchers at Emory University School of Medicine and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), both in Atlanta, Georgia, online in the 21 April issue of JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association…

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The U.S. Senate today approved an amendment that would empower the Federal Reserve to impose limits on debit-card fees collected by the biggest banks as part of the financial-overhaul bill.

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Genomic Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GHDX) announced results from five new studies on its Oncotype DX® breast cancer test, a multi-gene expression test that physicians currently use to predict the likelihood of chemotherapy benefit and recurrence risk for patients with early-stage breast cancer. These data were presented at the 32nd Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held December 9 – 13, 2009, in San Antonio, TX…

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ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:CXS) announced today that updated clinical data from several of its clinical trials with Omapro™ (omacetaxine mepesuccinate) will be presented at the upcoming 51st American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Jorge Cortes, MD, Professor of Medicine and Deputy Chair in the Department of Leukemia at The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center will present data via oral presentations for both the ChemGenex studies 202 and 203. On Monday, 7th December at 4:45 p.m. Central Time, Dr…

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Cleft palate has been linked to dozens of genes. During their investigation of one of these genes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis were surprised to find that cleft palate occurs both when the gene is more active and when it is less active than normal. They say the finding suggests this gene and processes closely associated with it are central to palate development and could become important targets for investigators seeking nonsurgical treatments to prevent cleft palate before birth…

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Waiting for a bus on my way to work I picked up a copy of the real estate sections of The Korea Times, a local newspaper serving the Korean community in Los Angeles. That’s right the real estate sections. There were two, a total of 32 pages of real estate coverage and advertisements in one day’s …

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