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Thrill Rides May Be Mysterious Cause Of Neurological Symptoms
With the advent of amusement park rides reaching G-forces that exceed those experienced by astronauts on the space shuttle, emergency physicians may be seeing a significant increase in head, neck and back trauma, warned an article in the January 2002 Annals of Emergency Medicine. (Amusement Park Injuries and Death) more
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Physically Abused Women Report Poor Health Status
Women who have experienced intimate partner violence are more likely to be in poorer health than women who are not involved in violent relationships, according to a new study published in the January 2002 Annals of Emergency Medicine. (Health Status and Intimate Partner Violence: A Cross-Sectional Study) more
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Significant Incidence Of Medical Complications Among Body-Pierced Students
A survey of university undergraduate students revealed that more than one-half had some type of body piercing and 17 percent suffered a medical complication from the piercing, the authors report in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. more
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Researchers Invent First Technique To Image Alzheimer's Onset
UCLA scientists have created the first technique to image the earliest evidence of Alzheimer's disease in the living brain - before the disorder begins attacking brain cells. more
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Defects In Gene, GNAS1, Responsible For Progressive Osseus Heteroplasia -- Disease Causes Rice-Size Bone Fragments To Form Under Skin And Inside Internal Organs
Scientists at Johns Hopkins and three other centers have found that defects in GNAS1, a hormone sensitivity gene, are responsible for progressive osseus heteroplasia (POH), a disease that causes rice-size bone fragments to spontaneously form under the skin and inside internal organs. The finding, reported in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, also represents a major step forward in identifying the genes responsible for normal bone formation in children and adults, a process that has largely mystified scientists. more
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