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Ginkgo Extract Offers Promise to Cut Stroke

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Posted by geri   
Sunday, 12 October 2008
Extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree offers promise to minimize brain damage caused by a stroke, scientists announced this week. The researchers said ginkgo may offer the same benefits in people -- which would be particularly important because not much can be done to protect the brain after a stroke.

They tested ginkgo as a preventive medicine by giving it before the stroke and saw protection, but the other surprise was the potential therapeutic application of ginkgo -- it was given after the stroke and the tests showed significant protection.

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13-year-old Tennis Ace Who 'Died' for 15 Minutes... and Survived

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Posted by bivvy   
Saturday, 11 October 2008
An elite 13-year-old athlete who dreamed of becoming the next Andy Murray died for 15 minutes but has miraculously survived. The healthy teenager is one of the youngest people in the UK to have suffered a heart attack and made a complete recovery. (Daily Mail online )
 

Computers Help Docs Spot Breast Cancer on X-rays

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Posted by geri   
Tuesday, 07 October 2008
mammo_breast_cancer.jpgA computer can safely replace a medical expert in a revolutionary way of interpreting a breast X-ray – according to a Cancer Research UK funded study.

A new study, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, has shown that a single trained expert plus a computer is just as effective at detecting breast cancer as the two experts who traditionally read a mammogram in the UK. In the United States and some other European countries only a single expert reads mammograms. This means that single readers using the computer aided detection program (CAD) will be even more effective at detecting breast cancer.
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2 Share Nobel Prize for Work on AIDS and Cancer

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Posted by Laura Schier   
Monday, 06 October 2008
nobel-prize.jpgThree European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases. They will share the prize money. (Associated Press via Yahoo news)
 

Celebrating Amazing Weight Loss

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Posted by geri   
Thursday, 02 October 2008
weightloss-red-carpet.jpgPatients of weight-loss surgeries celebrated their slimming success by throwing a red carpet party. Their success stories include more exercise, eating healthier, and diseases and symptoms subsiding. Amazing "before and after" photos... (on the video below)
 
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