Wednesday, June 13, 2012

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Dark chocolate cuts CV risk in metabolic syndrome

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Eating dark chocolate on a daily basis appears to decrease risk for cardiovascular events in patients with the metabolic syndrome, say researchers.

Tooth scaling reduces CV disease risk

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Taiwanese study results show that undergoing tooth scaling significantly reduces the risk for future myocardial infarction, stroke, and total cardiovascular events.

Laparoscopy technique lights up invisible metastases

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Fluorescence laparoscopy could be the way forward for cancer surgery and staging, say researchers writing in the Archives of Surgery.

Tooth scaling reduces CV disease risk

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Taiwanese study results show that undergoing tooth scaling significantly reduces the risk for future myocardial infarction, stroke, and total cardiovascular events.

Dark chocolate cuts CV risk in metabolic syndrome

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Eating dark chocolate on a daily basis appears to decrease risk for cardiovascular events in patients with the metabolic syndrome, say researchers.

Laparoscopy technique lights up invisible metastases

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Fluorescence laparoscopy could be the way forward for cancer surgery and staging, say researchers writing in the Archives of Surgery.

Prior chemotherapy extends postpalliative survival in pancreatic cancer

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer have a more favorable prognosis after palliative chemoradiotherapy if they have previously been treated with a gemcitabine-based therapy, say Danish researchers.

Preterm birth increases psychiatric disorder risk

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Individuals born preterm are at increased risk for a range of psychiatric disorders in young adulthood, researchers report.

Oxidative stress linked to NSS severity in schizophrenia

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

The severity of neurologic soft signs negatively correlates with antioxidant superoxide dismutase activity in patients with schizophrenia, research shows.

Inadequate information encoding linked to poor language ability

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Study findings suggest that the impaired ability to retain and repeat unfamiliar phoneme sequences in children with specific language impairment reflects inadequate encoding of phonologic information, rather than problems retaining encoded information.

Tooth scaling reduces CV disease risk

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Taiwanese study results show that undergoing tooth scaling significantly reduces the risk for future myocardial infarction, stroke, and total cardiovascular events.

Mixed picture for pulse pressure effect on surgical outcomes

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Two studies published in Anesthesia and Analgesia have muddied the water regarding the effect of preoperative pulse pressure on perioperative outcomes.

CAPOX-B shows promise for pre-surgery treatment in advanced rectal cancer patients

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL, USA: 1–5 June, 2012. Combined therapy with capecitabine, oxaliplatin, and bevacizumab is active and well tolerated for pre-surgical use in patients with stage II/III rectal cancer.

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