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Prehistoric predators with supersized teeth had beefier arm bones

January 4, 2012
Durham, NC The toothiest prehistoric predators also had beefier arm bones, finds a new fossil study. Sabertooth tigers may come to mind, but these extinct cats weren't the only animals with fearsome fangs. Take the false sabertooth cats also known as nimravids and their catlike ...

Eva Peron may have had secret lobotomy: researchers

December 24, 2011
Eva Peron, the glamorous first lady of Argentina in the 1940s and 50s, may have been given a secret lobotomy shortly before her death at age 33, scientific researchers said in a new report.

Hearing Devices More Apt to Fail in Children Who Had Meningitis

December 22, 2011
THURSDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) -- For children who have an implanted cochlear device, rates for replacement due to device failure are low. However, children who have hearing loss caused by bacterial meningitis before a device was implanted appear to be at increased risk for it to fail, ...

World’s first super predator had remarkable vision

December 7, 2011
South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of the earth's first food chain. This important story will be accompanied ...

Follow-up study finds prolonged fatigue for those who had chemotherapy for breast cancer

December 5, 2011
In a follow-up study, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that patients who receive chemotherapy for breast cancer might experience prolonged fatigue years after their therapy. The new study, published in the American Cancer Society's current issue of CANCER, is a follow-up to a study on fatigue ...

Follow-up study finds prolonged fatigue for those who had chemotherapy for breast cancer

December 5, 2011
(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a follow-up study, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that patients who receive chemotherapy for breast cancer might experience prolonged fatigue years after their therapy. The new study, published in the American Cancer Society's current issue of CANCER, ...

Breast Cancer Genetic Profiling Had Not Achieved Personalized Medicine Yet

November 20, 2011
Although ten years of genetic profiling has had an enormous impact on the understanding of breast cancer, progress on individualizing therapy has been rather limited, researchers from the UK and USA reported in The Lancet this week. Specifically, the authors refer to the prognostic and predictive factors associated with personalized ...

Finland vows care for narcolepsy kids who had swine flu shot

October 5, 2011
The Finnish government and major insurance companies announced Wednesday they will pay for lifetime medical care for children diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine.

Stroke Prevention Trial Reveals High-Risk Patients Without Stents Implanted Had Fewer Second Strokes

September 10, 2011
Specialists in Stony Brook University School of Medicine's Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery took part in a nationwide National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial, the results of which showed that patients at high risk for a second stroke had a lower risk of stroke and death when treated ...

Homo Erectus Had an Axe to Grind

August 31, 2011
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Hand axes, picks and other stone tools that are 1.8 million years old suggest that ancient humans were using advanced tool-making methods at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new study says. The tools found in East Africa are ...

Women Born After Great Depression Had More Children, Study Finds

August 11, 2011
THURSDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- American women born in 1935 had a higher average number of children than those born in 1910 or 1960, according to researchers who analyzed childbearing differences among three generations of women. Women born in 1935 had an average of three children per woman, ...

Blood Clot In Leg Risk Higher If Sibling Has Had One

August 9, 2011
If you have a sibling who had a life-threatening blood clot in the legs or pelvis - venous thromboembolism - your risk of suffering the same fate is twice as high compared to other people, researchers from Lund University, Sweden, reported in the journal Circulation. The authors say that ...