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A woman from Vietnam has puzzled doctors by saying she aged 50 years in a matter of days. In 2008, 26-year-old Nguyen Thi Phuong had a severe allergic reaction to seafood and the treatment with traditional medicine left her looking 50 years older in a few days.
Since then, she’s been wearing a mask in publi... |
14 October 2011
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Official statistics from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) indicate that the use of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication has been growing steadily throughout the United States.
The government report shows that the growth has been slow, yet ... |
30 September 2011
04:38 GMT |
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More than 250 million people in the world today are blind from preventable causes, and an MIT expert and his team plan to put a serious dent in that massive number. The researchers developed a new instrument capable to scanning for cataract inexpensively. At this point, cataract investigations can only be made using ... |
1 July 2011
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British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) scientists developed a new handheld device, licensed to Verisante Technology, that provides instant data about the molecular structure of moles, telling dermatologists whether a biopsy is necessary or not.
Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer, and the only ones that... |
31 January 2011
05:02 GMT |
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A Norwegian company had the idea of creating a chip that will make sending blood analysis or cancer cell samples to the laboratory obsolete.The MicroActive project is part of the European Union's 6th IST Framework Program, to develop an instrument for molecular diagnostics that can be used in the doctors’ ... |
13 December 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Waiting for a diagnosis can be one of the most stressful things in life, even more stressful that knowing you have a serious disease, concluded a study led by researchers from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.Elvira V. Lang, MD, associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, ... |
29 November 2010
05:57 GMT |
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For effectively treating a patient, the diagnostic is vital, but apparently there are a few issues in the United Kingdom, says a senior doctor online in the British Medical Journal.Doctors need better facilities and enough time for each patient in order to make a correct diagnosis, says Dr Gordon Caldwell, a consulta... |
10 September 2010
09:11 GMT |
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British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his representative has confirmed for the media. Luckily, the diagnosis has been made while the disease is still in early stages, which means chances for full and rapid recovery are looking very good. As a matter of fact, Webber is determine... |
26 October 2009
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Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys has officially become the latest celebrity to come down with the Swine Flu. Littrell became sick as the band returned to the US after a visit to Tokyo, the Us Magazine informs, but, luckily enough, the other members of the pop group are OK and show no symptoms of having contacted... |
6 October 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Tori Spelling of the original “90210” fame has been admitted, sent home and then readmitted to the hospital after complaining of serious stomach pains that no doctor seems to be able to diagnose. Although she is in much pain, the star’s representative says fans should not be worried, as also does he... |
1 October 2009
04:24 GMT |
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Marilyn Manson likes to shock, but it could very well be that he took his love for this practice a bit too far this time. Last week, the rocker wrote on both his MySpace and Facebook pages that he had been diagnosed with the Swine Flu, a claim his representatives are now forced to infirm to the four winds, as SFGate:... |
30 September 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Shock rocker Marilyn Manson is the latest celebrity to be diagnosed with the Swine Flu, which has become, as several media outlets put it, the hottest celebrity “trend.” After actress Lisa Rinna, “Harry Potter” star Rupert Grint and CNN's chief medical expert, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, were diagn... |
24 September 2009
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Dentists usually look at the tongue and the gums to see what condition they’re in when we normally go in for a consult, but one doctor in the UK does more than just that. Dr. John Roberts has a Holistic Dentistry Practice in West Yorkshire where patients come in to have him look specifically at their tongues, w... |
21 July 2009
16:01 GMT |
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There is no magic cure against the swine flu, as 20-year-old British star Rupert Grint, who plays one of the main characters in the highly successful “Harry Potter” film franchise, has recently recovered from a bout of it, as his rep confirms for People magazine. Grint has now fully recovered and will be ... |
6 July 2009
05:16 GMT |
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40-year-old singer and DJ Sonique, real name Sonia Clarke, has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is now receiving emergency treatment and undergoing surgery at a clinic in London, her publicist has confirmed for The Independent. The singer reportedly received the shock diagnosis the other day and has decided, upo... |
16 June 2009
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A new study shows that people with mothers having Alzheimer's may themselves be predisposed to the disease, suggesting that the condition could be related to an unbalance in the way the brain handles sugar, which is most likely genetically inherited. "Overall, these findings show that their brains are not workin... |
31 July 2008
04:26 GMT |
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As you've probably heard, Google has recently launched a new utility which lets you check the malware status of a certain domain and find out if the website hosts or hosted malware in the past. However, the diagnosis service provides at least surprising information when checking famous Internet pages. And the be... |
26 May 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Lab-on-a-chip devices, a relatively new technology in the world of portable diagnostic tools, promise both mobility and accurate microfluid analysis. The problem is that they cannot be mass produced since they are made out of expensive materials such as silicon, glass or plastics, and are extremely hard to manufactur... |
15 May 2008
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Unfortunately, the news about beloved 80s actor Patrick Swayze being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is true. The sad story was on every news channel and Internet news site by yesterday evening, and despite the overwhelming evidence I was still hoping someone would come out and infirm the story, branding it as a mal... |
6 March 2008
03:27 GMT |
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There are people who love their cars more than they love their wives. They only want what's best for them and even tend to the car's every need. They wash them, wax them and vacuum every bit of dust. They even vacuum the dust that's not there. Chinese company Kingtec has a special device for them with ... |
30 May 2007
05:38 GMT |
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A peer-reviewed study of the American Cancer Society revealed the deadly triad for female breast cancer: African American or Hispanic, younger than 40 years, and lower socioeconomic status (SES). This triad of the breast cancers and tumors does not respond to any of three significant tumor markers, are aggressive, de... |
26 March 2007
09:40 GMT |
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If your PC gets into the water, after that you can throw it to trash. But the future philosophy of making computers may be based on a watery support. Plain nitrogen bubbles, directing the flow of liquid through networks of microscopic microfluidic tubes, could act as computer bits by sending liquid in one way or anot... |
9 March 2007
05:13 GMT |
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