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Main Category: Radiology / Nuclear medicine Also Included In: Women's health / Gynecology ; Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 24 Jun 2008 - 0:00 PDT rate article Four characteristics of mammography facilities ...

Most people don't like taking asthma medicine, even if they know it is helping them. I know I don't. After all, asthma medicine is expensive and it seems 'unnatural' to...

Standard neurological exams of older adults are good predictors of future brain health and quality of life. These tests should become part of the physician's routine examination of older adults say faculty from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research in an editorial in the June 23, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal medicine.

An association between winter months and an increase in heart failure has been confirmed by Sally Inglis, a PhD student at The University of Queensland's School's of medicine and Nursing.

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for REYATAZ® (atazanavir sulphate 300mg once daily), administered with ritonavir 100 mg once daily and taken in combination with other antiretroviral medicinal products, in antiretroviral treatment-naïve human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infected adults.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) University of Pennsylvania School of medicine physicians and bioethicists are calling for a new, more standardized way for patients in need of organ transplants to be informed of the risks they face. If adopted, their policy recommendations -- outlined in the June 26 issue of the New England Journal of medicine -- could promote greater equity in how organs are allocated while restricting patients' abilities to 'cherry-pick' the best organs.

White people are more likely than blacks and Hispanics to undergoscreening for colorectal cancer, according to a study published in theJune 23 issue of Archives of Internal medicine.Anthony F. Jerant, M.D. (University of California Davis School ofMedicine, Sacramento) and colleagues point to barriers related tosocioeconomic status, health care access, and language as reasons forthis racial discrepancy.

About 20% of heart attack patients experience angina (chest pain) oneyear after the major cardiac event, according to researchers who havepublished a new study in the June 23 issue of Archives ofInternal medicine. In both inpatient and outpatient settings, a primary goal of care aftermyocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as heart attack, is to theepisodic chest pain known as angina.

(American Institute of Physics) Sound has a long history in medicine, from the stethoscopes doctors have used since the early 19th century to listen to the internal sounds of the human body to the obstetric ultrasound images so familiar to expectant parents. Now scientists are finding many more advanced applications of sound in medicine.

(University of Copenhagen) The end of dangerous chemical compounds in our homes? Cheap and environment friendly production of biofuel? Efficient design of medicines against cancer, Alzheimer's and AIDS? The solution to these challenges has come one step closer after researchers at the University of Copenhagen have solved an important piece of the puzzle behind how proteins are shaped. This research is now published in the renowned American scientific journal PNAS.