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Fragile X-Associated Tremor /Ataxia Syndrome Need Guidelines For Diagnostic Tests

... numbers of patients are detected, according to an editorial published in the same issue of Neurology. A second study in Ireland examined a 70-year-old woman with mild ataxia and tremor that became severe after receiving chemotherapy to treat breast cancer. She had two sons with Fragile X syndrome. The rese...

Sleeping Less May be related to Weight Gain

Less sleep could make you fat. In an editorial published in the Jan. 10 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, two Northwestern University researchers stress the need //to better understand the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States by studying how loss of sleep alters the complex ...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

... in Rostock, Germany. Vaupel wrote an accompanying editorial that appears in the same issue of Science. "It used to be thought that you died from your whole life," he says. "It is certainly true that the damage done to your body by your whole life is of some importance, but surprisingly, it seems that current...

Treatment over a longer period for blood clotting

...ennsylvania School of Medicine, in an accompanying editorial said that though researchers claim short-term treatment reduces the risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism by up to 81 percent, doctors are continuing to walk a tightrope for dosing medicine for patients with venous thromboembolism. Although low-in...

New Cholesterol gene linked to Alzheimer's

...Medical Center in Maywood, said in an accompanying editorial that this and earlier studies suggest that inhibiting cholesterol breakdown in the brain might represent a viable treatment for Alzheimer's....

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer reappearance

... in Rochester, Minnesota, wrote in an accompanying editorial that the preliminary results show that radiation therapy does provide an additional benefit: radiation therapy reduced the risk of local recurrence even when administered to patients who underwent total mesorectal excision....

Radiation reduces cancer recurrence

... in Rochester, Minnesota, wrote in an accompanying editorial that the preliminary results show that radiation therapy does provide an additional benefit: radiation therapy reduced the risk of local recurrence even when administered to patients who underwent total mesorectal excision....

Gene researchers make Malaria-resistant mosquito

...ne if such an approach could work, according to an editorial by Gareth Lycett and Fotis Kafatos, of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. Lycett and Kafatos note that the researchers studied a type of parasite that causes malaria in rodents. And little is known about how such "trans...

High Levels of Protein Linked to Brain Shrinkage

...ad to mental decline, according to an accompanying editorial by Dr. James F. Toole of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Dr. Clifford R. Jack of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Still, the research is "exciting," Toole said in a news release, since it is possible to lower hom...

Healing a painful neck

...roup and 40 percent of the regular care group. An editorial accompanying the study suggests the need for additional studies to clarify these results. The author writes, "If better results are seen in this study then indeed due to effects specific to manual therapy, further studies should be done to determine ...

Heart Drug has grave side effects

... should be done on similar drugs. An accompanying editorial says the use of other drugs commonly used in worsening heart failure, dopamine and dobutamine, should be reconsidered given the milrinone findings, since all three drugs work similarly to strengthen the heartbeat. Heart failure, in which the heart ...

Too much coffee is too bad

...’s genetic predisposition toward osteoporosis. An editorial by Massey stresses that moderate caffeine ingestion-less than 16 ounces of brewed coffee per day or 32 ounces of brewed tea-is not associated with increased bone loss.Until it is practical to determine each person’s VDR genotype, physicians should re...

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer recurrence

... in Rochester, Minnesota, wrote in an accompanying editorial that the preliminary results show that radiation therapy does provide an additional benefit: radiation therapy reduced the risk of local recurrence even when administered to patients who underwent total mesorectal excision....

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...MassGeneral Hospital for Children and author of an editorial accompanying the study in the New England Journal ...bes' effect on hearing debated Perrin wrote in his editorial that the issue of surgery is an important one since it's often overused. A 1994 study found about on...

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