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No Benefit of Evening Primrose Oil for Treating Eczema, Review Suggests
April 29, 2013 — Research into the complementary therapies evening primrose oil and borage oil shows little, if any, benefit for people with eczema compared with placebo, according to a new systematic review. The ... > full story -
Targeting Prescribers Can Reduce Excessive Use of Antibiotics in Hospitals
April 29, 2013 — Giving prescribers access to education and advice or imposing restrictions on use can curb overuse or inappropriate use of antibiotics in hospitals, according to a new Cochrane systematic review. ... > full story -
Smoking Prevention in Schools: Does It Work?
April 29, 2013 — Smoking prevention in schools reduces the number of young people who will later become smokers, according to a new systematic review. For young people who have never smoked, these programs appear to ... > full story -
Identification of Gene Variants Affecting Fertility Offers New Treatment Possibility
April 29, 2013 — Identification of genetic variations in the genes coding for the hormone FSH may provide new treatments for male and female infertility, according to new work. Scientists have characterized gene ... > full story -
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Microglia Can Be Derived from Patient-Specific Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and May Help Modulate the Course of Central Nervous System Diseases
April 29, 2013 — Overall importance of microglia in various brain and spinal cord diseases surprises researchers, who find patient-specific stem cells can be turned into microglia, which could be very useful in ... > full story -
Scientists Discover How a Protein Finds Its Way
April 29, 2013 — Scientists have uncovered how an enzyme co-factor can bestow specificity on a class of proteins with otherwise nonspecific biochemical activity. Proteins can have more than one function, but they ... > full story -
How We Decode 'Noisy' Language in Daily Life: How People Rationally Interpret Linguistic Input
April 29, 2013 — Suppose you hear someone say, "The man gave the ice cream the child." Does that sentence seem plausible? Or do you assume it is missing a word? Such as: "The man gave the ice cream to the child." ... > full story -
Frequently Used Biologic Agents Might Cause Acute Liver Injury
April 29, 2013 — A commonly used class of biologic response modifying drugs can cause acute liver injury with elevated liver enzymes, according to a new ... > full story -
Retirement Expert: Medicare Already Means-Tested
April 29, 2013 — The Obama administration's controversial proposal to means-test Medicare recipients has one small problem -- the Medicare program is already means-tested, says an expert on retirement ... > full story -
Rare, Lethal Childhood Disease Tracked to Protein
April 29, 2013 — Scientists have identified how a defective protein plays a central role in a rare, lethal childhood disease known as giant axonal neuropathy, or GAN. GAN is an extremely rare and untreatable genetic ... > full story
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