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Level Of Spinal Defect Linked With Need For Shunt In Spina Bifida
Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have completed the first study comparing the
location on the spine of the birth defect spina bifida with the rate of shunting -- the surgical placement of a drainage tube. The
research showed that infants with spina bifida are more likely to require a shunt when the birth defect is located higher on the
spine. The shunt carries excess spinal fluid away from the child's brain to prevent a life-threatening buildup of
pressure. more
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Hopkins Physicians Find Hidden Tumors in Rare Bone Disease
People with the rare bone disease oncogenic osteomalacia have the worst of both worlds. It may take
years before their condition -- marked by tiny, noncancerous tumors that hide out and wreak havoc on the skeletal system -- is
correctly diagnosed. Then more years can go by before physicians can precisely locate the tumors and remove them.
Meanwhile, patients suffer debilitating bone pain, fractures and muscle weakness. more
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Brazil Combats One Of Worst Outbreaks In Its History
Brazil's army has been mobilized to help fight one of the worst outbreaks of dengue fever in the
country's history,with victims in the country believed to number 430,000. Figures reveal that almost 10 percent of the work
force in Rio de Janeiro has contracted the disease. more
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UK: Bowel Cancer Deaths Plummet
The number of people dying from bowel cancer has fallen to a 10-year low, but increasing numbers
are being diagnosed with the disease. Figures from the charity Cancer Research UK show the number of people in Britain has
fallen from more than 19,000 per year in the late 1980s and early 1990s to 15,800 in 2000. more
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Information For Patients: Colorectal Cancer Prevention
Doctors can not always explain why one person gets cancer and another does not. However, scientists
have studied general patterns of cancer in the population to learn what things around us and what things we do in our lives may
increase our chance of developing cancer. more
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