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Only 40 per cent of patients with a fragility fracture are aware of their osteoporosis risk ...  Read more

Population and immigration are two key issues hotly debated in the current Australian election campaign.

While the conservatives hint unchecked immigration is the source of many evils bedeviling the country, business, their natural ally, ...  Read more

Invasive surgery has been further improved and simplified for kidney cancer patients by surgeons who limit the incisions only to the belly button.

"For advanced as well as localized kidney cancer, our surgical team has been able to ...  Read more

A particular prostate cell that researchers had hitherto not taken into account could be the trigger point of malignant prostate cancer, new studies reveal.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researcher Owen N. Witte and his ...  Read more

A UNC physician has authored an editorial on the cost-effectiveness study of colonoscopy versus computed tomographic colonography (CTC) while screening for colon cancer.

The cost effectiveness analysis concluded that CTC or "virtual" ...  Read more

BCX4208, a new gout drug, is showing promise. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc, US, developing the drug, reported significant reductions in uric acid blood levels. It also said there were no major safety issues on completion of the first phase of the ...  Read more

A natural molecule that occurs in the brain, GABA (?-Aminobutyric acid), could be the main factor in regulating how many new memories we can generate, say researchers at Tel Aviv University.

The new study by Dr. Inna Slutsky of the ...  Read more

Finding out how folds and creases disappear could help in understanding how human tissue folds and grows, researchers say.

In a pair of papers, scientists report how sharp folds can transition into smoother wrinkles, and how wrinkles ...  Read more

Snake venom, according to Japanese scientists who were studying the body's reactions to toxins, could hold potential cure for heart disease and cancer.

The researchers claimed that inhibiting a protein found on the surface of blood cells ...  Read more

Certain personality traits, demographic and work related factors increase the likelihood that doctors will develop mental illness or...  Read more

A group of surgeons in Taiwan have been studying the effects of electricity on penises by conducting the experiments on themselves. ...  Read more

Between elevated intrinsic (resting-state) brain connectivity and spontaneous pain intensity in patients with fibromyalgia (FM)there is a link, and evidence for this has been produced in a new study.

The study by researchers at ...  Read more

Sixty-seven percent of American adults said they drink on occasion with a preference for beer, followed by wine and liquor, according to a Gallup poll.

Drinking was most prevalent in 1976-1978, when 71 percent of Americans said they drank ...  Read more

Only 73% of Spaniards say they are Roman Catholic as compared to 80% eight years ago, a recent survey has revealed.

About 25 percent of all Spaniards now claim to be atheists or without a religion, compared to 17 percent in 2002, the ...  Read more

Well-known Spanish bullfighting entrepreneurs are vexed with the bullfighting ban and have vowed to take Catalonia's parliament to court.

"We are going to launch a huge battle" against this "outrageous" measure, promoter Luiz Alvarez, a ...  Read more

A British woman coughed up three thousand pounds on dental work after she bit a stone in a sandwich. ...  Read more

A 26-year-old scholar won an immensely popular Malaysian TV talent show for a top young Islamic leader.

The "Young Imam" programme has seen 10 finalists hit the prime-time stage to recite verses from the Koran, wash corpses and slaughter ...  Read more

Nursing mothers in Australia are not getting adequate advice on medication, new research shows. 

The new health reform law will benefit thirty million women over the next ten years by providing new or strengthened insurance coverage, states a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. ...  Read more

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection occurs in an estimated one quarter of HIV-infected persons in Europe, Australia, and the United States. ...  Read more

BPA (bisphenol A) containing plastic is undoubtedly dangerous to the environment but scientists have now discovered an eco-friendly way of decomposing the plastic waste.

Mukesh Doble and Trishul Artham pre-treated polycarbonate with ...  Read more

A report has revealed ten different ways of measuring alterations in the climate, and said that there is confirmed proof of the world getting warmer.

The ten indicators of climate change revealed by the Met Office and its US ...  Read more

Black teenagers with Vitamin D deficiency suffer from arterial stiffness that increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, states a new study on the subject.

"While we think of the sun as providing humans with most of our body's ...  Read more

If only standard diagnostic criteria, most often presence of a fever, is used to identify H1N1 infection, it may not be enough, warns a recent study.

It has, therefore, concluded that coughing or other respiratory symptoms are more ...  Read more

Australian workers are significantly affected by other people’s alcohol drinking and at a considerable cost, ...  Read more