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Future strategies to address Alzheimer's disease hinge on the ability to improve early diagnosis. A new report suggests cognitive abilities other than memory, including visual-spatial skills needed to perceive relationships between objects, may decline years prior to a clinical diagnosis. 'Recent studies have ... ...

NHS dentistry has been left behind in the drive to improve the health service, dental leaders say.

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An expert network of doctors and research scientists is forming the world's first national centre for research into understanding pain in arthritis. Backed by medical research charity the Arthritis Research Campaign and The University of Nottingham, it will aim to improve treatments for arthritis - the most common cause of chronic pain - which affects more than ten million people in the UK. The charity has awarded funding of £2.

Children with functional abdominal pain who used audio recordings of guided imagery at home in addition to standard medical treatment were almost three times as likely to improve their pain problem, compared to children who received standard treatment alone. And those benefits were maintained six months after treatment ended, a new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University Medical Center researchers has found.

Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) hailed the support of Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) who have signed on as co-sponsors of a bill to establish the first ever multi-agency, comprehensive program targeted at lung cancer. Entitled Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2009, S.332 authorizes a five year program to reduce the mortality rate of lung cancer which continues to be the number one cause of cancer deaths both nationally and in New York State. Lung cancer causes more deaths each year than breast, prostate, colon, kidney, melanoma and liver cancers combined. 'Lung cancer affects millions of men and women everyday and we must do everything we can to fund ways to combat this deadly disease,' said Senator Schumer. 'I am proud to sign onto this legislation to help promote earlier detection and better disease management to improve cancer survival rates in New York State and across the country.' . . . To insure accountability, the bill requires an annua

U.S. Citizens Deserve Improved Foreign Assistance Program 'Bureaucratic sprawl has sapped the strength of many of [U.S.] aid programs. Our government's global development policies and programs are scattered across 12 departments, 25 different agencies and nearly 60 government offices.

A Seattle-based study has found an improved way to trim teen smoking. That improvement is small, but significant.