Researchers have found that most children become infected with warts through direct contact with family members or classmates,contrary to the popular belief that they are more likely to get them from public places. Warts have a rough texture and are caused by viruses,particularly one of several kinds of HPV (human papillomavirus)…Dermatology News [...]
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 | A guest post by Wendy White,Founder &President of Siren Interactive Each year Rare Disease Day is celebrated worldwide on the last day of February. This year is even more special because it’s the 30th anniversary of the Orphan Drug Act,which provides incentives to encourage companies to develop rare disease therapies,and the [...] After several years of incremental study,researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine,University of Pennsylvania have been able to piece together important steps in how Parkinson’s disease (PD) spreads from cell to cell and leads to nerve cell death. Penn Medicine News [...] Understanding how any disease progresses is one of the first and most important steps towards finding treatments to stop it. This has been the case for such brain-degenerating conditions as Alzheimer’s disease. Now,after several years of incremental study,researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine,University of Pennsylvania have been able to piece together [...] TUESDAY,May 15 —Researchers have identified gene variants that speed the progression of Parkinson’s disease,and they say their findings could help identify patients who would benefit most from early treatment. The researchers,from the… Drugs.com –Daily MedNews [...] Controversial research about a strain of avian flu that could potentially spread between humans has been published in Nature. It had been withheld from publication for five months after US advisers… Latest headlines from BMJ [...] A single gene that promotes initial development of the most common form of lung cancer and its lethal metastases has been identified by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida. Mayo Clinic Research News and Discovery’s Edge Richard S. Irwin,Nicki Augustyn,Cynthia T. French,Jean Rice,Stephen J. Welch,on behalf of the Editorial Leadership TeamJan 1,2012;141:1-4 Chest:Most-Read Full-Text Articles Richard S. Irwin,Nicki Augustyn,Cynthia T. French,Jean Rice,Stephen J. Welch,on behalf of the Editorial Leadership TeamJan 1,2012;141:1-4 Chest:Most-Read Full-Text Articles Increasingly hospitals are enforcing “bare below the elbow” policies,so wrist watches are heading out.1Mobile phone usage has been destigmatised in hospitals. Several “apps” have been developed for smart phones to replace the traditional handbook that would once have been tucked into white coat pockets. Smart phone usage is likely to increase,not least because [...] |
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