Diets bad for the teeth are also bad for the body

Dental disease may be a wake-up call that your diet is harming your body. "The five-alarm fire bell of a tooth ache is difficult to ignore," says Dr. Philippe P. Hujoel, professor of dental public health sciences at the University of Washington (UW) School of Dentistry in Seattle. Beyond the i...

Popular Jellyfish Sting Treatment Also Proven Effective on Stings From Portuguese Man-of-War

SAVANNAH, Ga., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Jellyfish Squish(TM), an FDA compliant solution that works within minutes to relieve the pain of jellyfish stings, was recently proved to be effective on stings caused by the Portuguese man-of-war. Jellyfish Squish(TM) is produced by Coastal Solutions, Inc. ...

Miracle Treatment for Burn Scars as Seen on Today Show Will Also Be Featured on The Insider Tonight

NEW YORK, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the feature of the UltraPulse CO2 fractional laser as a Miracle Treatment for Burn Scars on The Today Show , The Insider will also be featuring the treatment tonight, check your local listings for the time. Chandra, Jordan and Trae Berns were int...

Common migraine pain condition also prevalent in cluster headache

(PHILADELPHIA) A pain condition common in people with migraines also has a high prevalence in patients with cluster headache, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Jefferson Headache Center at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience. Approximately half of a group of patients with clu...

Too-Low Blood Pressure Can Also Bring Danger

What's OK for the kidney and brain may not be best for the heart, expert says THURSDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- While too-high blood pressure is a clear hazard for most people, too-low pressure can apparently be a threat in some cases as well. A new study of 10,001 people with cor...

Bertram Receives Organizational Innovation Award at AONE Conference -- Award Sponsor B. E. Smith Also Announces Funding for Three Seed Grants

At the American Organization of Nurse Executives' annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, the newest recipient of the AONE's Organizational Innovation for Nurse Executive Award was revealed: Donna L. Bertram, RN, MBA, NEA-BC, FAAN, vice president and chief nursing officer at Texas Health Arlingt...

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Teeth and Gums Also Benefit from the Healing Power of Aloe Vera

CHICAGO, July 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The aloe vera plant has a long history of healing power. Its ability to heal burns and cuts and soothe pain has been documented as far back as the 10th century. Recently, aloe vera has gained some popularity as an active ingredient in toot...

Delcath Updates Phase III Patient Enrollment as Pivotal Trial Accelerates, Durable Tumor Responses In Phase II Study Also Cited

NEW YORK, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delcath Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTH ) announced that Richard Taney, President and Chief Executive Officer, provided an update on enrollment numbers in the Company's pivotal Phase III clinical trial today at a gathering of financial and healthcare ind...

Annual Conference on Vaccine Research to Highlight Not Only Health Benefits But Also Economic Gains

BETHESDA, Md., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaccines don't just keep children healthy, they also lead to more productive adult workers who can earn higher wages and save more money, according to Dr. David E. Bloom, a labor economist at the Harvard School of Public Health. Bloom, who has studied the...

Tiny Cup Attached to Eye Improves Drug Delivery For Retinal Diseases

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Regular Yoga Practice Is Associated With Mindful Eating

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Sanofi Pasteur Submits Supplemental Application for A(H1N1) Pandemic Vaccine to U.S. FDA

...t vaccine through clinical trials in the U.S., which began August 6. The planned clinical trials will consist of approximately 2,000 subjects and will also evaluate the safety and potential benefits of adding an adjuvant to the pandemic vaccine. More information on the influenza A(H1N1) 2009 vaccine clini...

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Allopathic medicine

... by critics of conventional medicine 4 See also 5 References 6 External links ...edical dictionaries and general usage dictionaries also give varying accounts of the meaning of allopathy...[5] Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary also defines it as a "term applied to that system of th...

Angor animi

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American Dietetic Association

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Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program

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Anterior mediastinal mass

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Arterial stiffness

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Imperforate anus

.... Its cause is unknown. Imperforate anus occurs in about 1 in 5000 births and its cause is unknown. Children who have imperforate anus may also have other congenital anomalies. ... Imperforate anus is congenital (present from birth) defect in which the opening ... Imperforate an...

Glaucoma

...s well as a chat support group. Glaucoma , one of the leading causes of blindness, is estimated to affect 1 of every 50 adults. ... Glaucoma is also more likely to develop in persons who are ... Glaucoma is a group of disorders leading to progressive damage to the optic nerve, and is characte...

Zygote

...te) is a term in Developmental biology used to describe the first stage of a new unique organism when it consists of just a single cell. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the group of cells formed by the first few cell divisions, although... The diploid zygote undergoes repeated...

Zoster

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Zinc

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Yellow Fever

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Oncogenes are genes that when mutated or expressed in high concentrations can cause normal cells to become cancerous. Now research from Tel Aviv University is demonstrating that Ras, one of the first oncogenes discovered, has the power to heal as well as harm. Ph.D. student Oded Rechavi and hi...

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Protein identified as critical to insulating the body's wiring could also become treatment target

AUGUSTA, Ga. - A new protein identified as critical to insulating the wiring that connects the brain and body could one day be a treatment target for divergent diseases, from rare ones that lower the pain threshold to cancer, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. They report this week in ...

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Arizona Pain Specialists Contend Recent Vertebroplasty Studies are Misleading

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Volcano Corporation Presentation At Canaccord Adams Conference To Be Webcast

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SCOLR Pharma, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

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Abiogenesis

...ligious criticism of the theory 3 References 4 External links History of abiogenesis hypotheses Aristotelian abiogenesis , also known as spontaneous generation , (and, in older texts, Generatio aequivoca, Generatio primaria, archegenesis, autogenesis, and archebiosis ), was...

Absorption spectrum

... particular elements, and allows for identification of elements present in stars and other gaseous objects that cannot be measured directly. See also Fraunhofer lines spectrometry densitometry compare with emission spectrum External links Solar absorption spectrum ...

Coenzyme A

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Actin

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Acrosome

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Acrosome

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Zygotene

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Zoology

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Zygote

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Zona pellucida

...sperm to the zona pellucida is a receptor-ligand interaction with a ... The same zona pellucida protein that serves as a sperm receptor also stimulates ... The zona pellucida binding assay assesses the ability of ... to spermatozoa on subsequent sperm– zona pellucida bind ... that...

Z-DNA

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Zinc finger

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