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Genetics e Rare diseases
A novel gene called rumi regulates Notch signaling by adding a glucose molecule to the part of the Notch protein that extends outside a cell.
Baylor College of Medicine - Wed, 30 January 2008
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General medicine
Employment arrangements in which the worker has a nontraditional relationship with the work-site employer have come to be grouped together in recent years as "contingent" work.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Wed, 30 January 2008
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Pediatrics
Exploring a person's genome will enable clinicians to characterize health and disease states by molecular fingerprints, elucidate mechanistic pathways, and develop new preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic strategies.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Wed, 30 January 2008
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Toxicology
Evidence of the effectiveness of cannabinoids is strong for treating cancer, central pain, and spasticity related pain; the evidence is mixed for treating acute pain and weak for treating peripheral neuropathic pain.
British Medical Journal - Wed, 30 January 2008
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Nephrology
Pregnant women with chronic renal disease adapt poorly to a gestational increase in renal blood flow. This may accelerate their decline in renal function and lead to a poor pregnancy outcome.
British Medical Journal - Wed, 30 January 2008
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Diabetology
A randomized controlled trial shows that during usual care visits, a brief physician intervention to promote discussion of behavioral goals leads to increased physical activity and weight loss.
Medscape - Wed, 30 January 2008
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Oncology
A bladder sparing protocol is feasible in a selected population of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who decline radical surgery, Italian researchers report in the January issue of Cancer.
Medscape - Wed, 30 January 2008
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Cardiology
New research indicates that the plasma level of NT-proBNP is a better prognostic indictor than the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) estimated with standard equations in patients with advanced heart failure.
Medscape - Wed, 30 January 2008
http://www.medscape.com
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Allergology
Those who suffer from allergic asthma, rhinitis, conjunctivitis or stinging insect allergies may be good candidates to receive immunotherapy, also known as "allergy shots".
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - Wed, 30 January 2008
http://www.aaaai.org
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Psychiatry
Though conditioned fear has long been acknowledged as an important etiologic mechanism in social anxiety disorder, past psychophysiological experiments have found no differences in general conditionability among social anxiety patients using generally aversive but socially nonspecific unconditioned stimuli.
American Journal of Psychiatry - Wed, 30 January 2008
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/