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  • Many babies with simple febrile seizures can avoid spinal tap
    News - 6 Jan 2009
    When babies develop a fever high enough or abrupt enough to cause a seizure, frightened parents often rush them to the emergency room, where their workup frequently includes a lumbar puncture (spinal...
  • Half-dose vaccination in healthy young individuals may be effective in times of vaccine shortage
    News - 8 Dec 2008
    Individuals younger than 50 who have been previously vaccinated do not appear to have a substantially different immune response to a half-dose of influenza vaccine than to a full dose, according to a...
  • Genetic tag team orchestrates the cell cycle
    News - 7 May 2008
    By surveying the activity of thousands of genes at several different time points, researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy have uncovered new evidence that a network of...
  • Climate change and human health
    News - 7 Apr 2008
    Scientists tell us that the evidence the Earth is warming is "unequivocal." Increases in global average air and sea temperature, ice melting and rising global sea levels all help us understand and...
  • What gives us fingertip dexterity?
    News - 8 Feb 2008
    Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone.
  • Elderly patients at greater risk for developing cognitive problems after surgery
    News - 3 Jan 2008
    Patients over the age of 60 who have elective surgeries such as joint replacements, hysterectomies and other non-emergency, inpatient procedures, are at an increased risk for long-term cognitive...
  • Poor self-esteem can trigger the primal fight-or-flight response
    News - 12 Oct 2007
    Few can tolerate such romantic or professional rebuffs as "It's not you, it's me" and "we regret to inform you that your application was not successful." But while a healthy dose of self-esteem can...
  • Age is important in HRT use
    News - 3 Aug 2007
    Five years ago this summer the National Institutes of Health's stopped early a major portion of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a large and ambitious study to address the most common causes of...
  • Debate on folic acid fortification
    News - 10 Jul 2007
    Since the institution of nationwide folic acid fortification of enriched grains in the mid 1990s, the number of infants born in the United States and Canada with neural tube defects has declined by 20...
  • When to stop resuscitation in cardiac arrest cases
    News - 3 Aug 2006
    According to a newly published report as many as two-thirds of cardiac arrest patients who are taken to hospitals by emergency medical technicians (EMT's) die despite efforts to revive them.

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