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Electrical stimulation improves depression in trial
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPeople with otherwise untreatable depression improved in a small clinical trial after receiving electrical stimulation of a part of the brain that scientists believe regulates sadness. A report this week in the journal Biological Psychiatry said 12 of 20...Tags: Illnesses, Trials, Diseases, Mental Illness, Pharmaceuticals
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Breast cancer?
In addition to blocking testosterone formation, the new drug abiraterone blocks estrogen production, leading researchers to test it for the treatment of breast cancer. But no results have been released.Tags: Diseases, Cancer
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Madame 'X' almost pulls it off
Chicago Tribune criticMovie stardom isn't in the eye of the beholder, it's in the percentages demanded and received by the movie star. We're talking about a state of fiscal grace, not a state of glamor or mystique. By that measure Gillian Anderson is not a movie star. Yet...Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Music Industry, Cinema Industry, Chris Carter, Billy Connolly
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NJ lawmaker who fought child porn faces own battle
Associated Press WriterThe veteran Democratic assemblyman under investigation for alleged child pornography possession on his legislative office computer once hailed making it easier to report computer crimes. "Fraud, piracy, stalking and trafficking in child pornography...Tags: Pornography, Law Enforcement, Essex (Middlesex, Connecticut), Computer Crime, Parliament
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New hope on prostate cancer
Tribune NewspapersAn experimental cancer drug shrank prostate tumors dramatically and more than doubled survival in 70 percent to 80 percent of patients with aggressive cancers, researchers report. Although the study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology...Tags: Medicine, University of Michigan, Diseases, Cancer, Western Medicines
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Assemblyman Neil Cohen
NAME: Neil Cohen. OCCUPATION: Attorney at Gill and Cohen law firm in Montclair. POLITICS: Union County freeholder 1988-90, New Jersey Assembly 1990-91 and 1994 to present. Deputy Assembly Speaker from 2006 to present. PARTY: Democrat. IN THE NEWS:...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Child Abuse, Church and State Relations, Medical Specialization, Genetics
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Abducted By Mediocrity
Chicago TribuneMovie stardom isn't in the eye of the beholder, it's in the percentages demanded and received by the movie star. We're talking about a state of fiscal grace, not a state of glamour or mystique. By that measure, Gillian Anderson is not a movie star. Yet...Tags: X-Files: I Want to Believe, Cinema Industry, Chris Carter, Celebrity, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Disease attacking Florida's state tree
MIAMI The sabal palm, Florida's state tree, is under attack by a microscopic killer that has scientists stumped. An unknown but growing number of sabal palms in the Tampa Bay area have died from a mysterious disease that researchers are struggling to...Tags: University of Florida, Florida Keys Vacations, Diseases, Plant Diseases
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'Father of medical genetics' dies at 86
Sun ReporterDr. Victor A. McKusick, a Johns Hopkins professor who pioneered the study of medical genetics and spent his career exploring how patients' genes predisposed them to medical disorders, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in Towson. He was 86. Often...Tags: Medicine, Medical Staff, Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Natural Science
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Research links gene to statin side effects
Associated PressScientists may have found a way to test for and possibly avoid the most serious side effect of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, one of the top-selling medicines in the world. In rare cases, statins - such as Lipitor - can cause muscle pain and...Tags: Medicine, Health Treatments, Diseases, Heart Disease, Prescription Drugs
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