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(MedPage Today) -- Rats fed a sugary diet forgot how to run a maze they had previously mastered, but the effect was countered by omega-3 fatty acid supplements. Also this week: new hope for Fanconi anemia. (Fri, 18 May 2012 17:08:07 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- Having the results of a personalized genetic test did not drive patients to utilize potentially costly follow-up healthcare services, a study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found. (Fri, 18 May 2012 16:43:27 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- This week's topics include stress testing after heart procedures, coffee and mortality, air pollution and markers of inflammation, and laxative-free colonoscopy. (Fri, 18 May 2012 16:27:43 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- The next generation of drug-eluting stents that do a disappearing act, whether with a biodegradable polymer or an entirely bioabsorbable platform, appears to be holding up to conventional stents over the short term. (Fri, 18 May 2012 16:17:22 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- Targeting the various aspects of the metabolic syndrome may provide a means for preventing the development of diabetic neuropathy, authors of a review suggested. (Fri, 18 May 2012 15:23:48 -0400)
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PARIS (MedPage Today) -- A percutaneous device that walls off part of the left ventricle to help failing hearts appears to have a big impact on outcomes, pilot study results showed. (Fri, 18 May 2012 14:56:23 -0400)
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CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- British patients followed after starting on glitazone drugs for type 2 diabetes were significantly more likely to develop bladder cancer than those taking sulfonylurea agents. (Fri, 18 May 2012 14:45:46 -0400)
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ATLANTA (MedPage Today) -- With "baby boomers" believed to account for 75% of the hepatitis C infected population in the U.S. -- the CDC wants everyone ages 47 to 67 be tested for infection. (Fri, 18 May 2012 13:41:48 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- Catheter-based renal nerve ablation helps lower resistant hypertension, but now researchers have found that it works as well in those with chronic kidney disease, a pilot study showed. (Fri, 18 May 2012 13:25:06 -0400)
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PARIS (MedPage Today) -- More dramatic blood pressure reductions may be on the horizon for patients with resistant hypertension given the phalanx of renal denervation systems under development. (Fri, 18 May 2012 12:28:19 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- Two new studies have implicated smoking in ?the development of psoriatic arthritis and inflammatory back pain. (Fri, 18 May 2012 12:19:24 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- Children with epilepsy and their parents reported suffering from sleep problems, researchers found. (Fri, 18 May 2012 11:31:15 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- For a second time this week, a study has shown the BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib to be active and safe in advanced melanoma, with positive results in patients with brain metastases. (Fri, 18 May 2012 11:17:10 -0400)
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NEW YORK CITY (MedPage Today) -- Hypertension specialists will take a closer look at the connection between high blood pressure and the cardiovascular system at this year's meeting of the American Society of Hypertension here, according to the chair of the scientific program committee. (Fri, 18 May 2012 10:33:55 -0400)
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?WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- It doesn't cost any more to eat healthy food than it does to eat junk food, a government study found, casting doubt on the popular belief that many people can't afford healthful foods. (Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00:00 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- Large randomized trials are needed to determine whether vitamin D can prevent or treat cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other nonskeletal disorders, according to the Endocrine Society. (Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- ?A calorie-controlled diet to reduce excess weight gain during pregnancy is not only safe for mother and baby but also can improve pregnancy outcomes compared with exercise alone or a combination of the two, a meta-analysis showed. (Thu, 17 May 2012 18:30:00 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- For patients with impaired renal function, performing CABG off-pump rather than on-pump appears to improve outcomes, a retrospective study showed. (Thu, 17 May 2012 17:00:00 -0400)
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PARIS (MedPage Today) -- Statin treatment before percutaneous coronary intervention reduces? cardiac injury from the procedure and boosts longer- term outcomes, Italian researchers affirmed. (Thu, 17 May 2012 16:41:11 -0400)
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(MedPage Today) -- Ten generic versions of the anti-clotting drug clopidogrel (Plavix) were approved en masse by the FDA on Thursday, coinciding with the expiration of a key patent on the drug. (Thu, 17 May 2012 15:56:20 -0400)
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