Archive for September, 2007
Baby boomers who have it all, including custom clothes and sports equipment, are now beating the physical signs of old age with custom body parts, including knees. Patients with degenerative knee conditions can now benefit from custom-fit knee replacements that are tailored to an individual’s unique body mechanics, size and gender variations. Dr. [click link for full article]
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If you’re among the estimated 10 million Americans who have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the knee, take heart in knowing that several nonsurgical options, pharmacologic and otherwise, are available for easing the pain of an arthritic knee, according to Cleveland Clinic’s Arthritis Advisor. [click link for full article]
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Eli Lilly on Friday announced that it has received FDA approval for its bone-strengthening drug raloxifene, sold under the brand-name Evista, to reduce the risk of breast cancer for postmenopausal women at high risk of the disease and postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, the Wall Street Journal reports (Wall Street Journal, 9/15). [click link for full article]
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An unmanned Foton spacecraft, carrying a payload of more than 40 ESA experiments, has been successfully launched. The Soyuz-U launcher lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.Nearly 9 minutes later, the Russian Foton-M3 spacecraft separated from the rocket’s upper stage and was inserted into a 300 km orbit that will carry it around the Earth once every 90 minutes. [click link for full article]
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Evista (raloxifene HCl), a drug aimed at reducing invasive breast cancer risk for both postmenopausal women with osteoporosis and postmenopausal women with a invasive breast cancer risk has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for both groups of women. Gwen Krivi, Ph.D., VP, Lilly Research Laboratories “The FDA’s decision marks a major milestone. [click link for full article]
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Celiac Disease, celiac sprue or gluten sensitive enteropathy is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestines. In our bodies, the small intestine is responsible for the absorption of the foods we eat. When someone with Celiac Disease ingests foods that contain gluten, the body produces antibodies that attack the small intestines and in particularly the villi.
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Even though you may not have heard of it, endimetriosis is a very common medical condition that affects around 89 million women around the world. I had certainly never been aware of it, that is until I was diagnosed with the condition. With endimetriosis, the tissue that lines the uterus (normally shed during the menstrual flow) begins to grow on the outside of the womb. As a result, the tissues still detach and bleed but isn’t able to exit the body as it normally would. Inte…
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Millions of Americans suffer from abdominal pain each year, although the kind of pain depends on the underlying cause.
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Help stop getting yeast infections by discovering what they are and the most common causes of them.
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Article is about various allergies causing asthma
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