Julie Steenhuysen

                   

Discovery offers way of tracking cancer in blood

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tiny sacs released from tumour cells and circulating in the blood carry genetic information about the tumour, offering a new way to track and treat the cancer, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.

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Sharp-witted elderly shed insight on dementia

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CHICAGO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - People who manage to keep a razor-sharp memory well into their 80s appear to have fewer fiber-like tangles of a protein linked with Alzheimer's than those who age normally, U.S. researchers said on...

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Four drug combination helps in lung cancer: U.S. study (Reuters)

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13-Nov-2008 44 related
        

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Maggie Fox, Health And Science Editor – 38 mins ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Combining two chemotherapy drugs with two targeted therapies was safe and appeared to help patients with...

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Study yields clues to why some tumors spread

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13-Nov-2008 7 related
        

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A small fragment of genetic material may mean the difference between an easily treated local tumor and an aggressive cancer that spreads throughout the body, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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Risks seen in opposite-sex heart transplants

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12-Nov-2008 74 related
        

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Men and women who get heart transplants are more likely to die when the donor was of the opposite sex, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The cause is not clear but could be due to size...

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Fat hormone may help predict heart failure: study

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12-Nov-2008 12 related
        

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - High levels of a hormone made in fat cells may be a strong indicator of the onset of heart failure, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta wanted...

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Triglycerides the fat to watch: study

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12-Nov-2008 8 related
        

Wednesday, 12 November 2008 Julie Steenhuysen Reuters Danish researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that a blood test that does not require fasting showed a strong link between high triglyceride...

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Depressed? Your cardiologist might not ask

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11-Nov-2008 34 related
        

CHICAGO (Reuters) - While depression often follows a heart attack, a recent call for heart specialists to do routine depression screening may have been premature, a team of researchers said on Monday.

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Triglycerides may be blood fat to watch: studies

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11-Nov-2008 17 related
        

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - For people keeping track of their blood fats, triglycerides may be the new lipid to watch, researchers said on Tuesday. A study earlier this week found that the percentage of U.S. adults...

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Hardest-to-treat form of TB rare in U.S.: study

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11-Nov-2008 15 related
        

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The hardest-to-treat form of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat in many parts of the world, but remains quite rare in the United States, U.S. government health researchers said on Tuesday.

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