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Wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI) report very high rates of wheelchair breakdowns - and the problem is getting worse, suggests a study in American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R), the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, AJPM&R is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolt ...

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Dramatic changes are needed in medical student education, including a substantial reduction in the number of traditional lectures, according to a perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine by two Stanford University professors... ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244928.php

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A paper published in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press describes the effects of brief prenatal exposure to plant estrogens on the mouse oviduct, modeling the effects of soy-based baby formula on human infants... ...

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We already know there are long-term health problems associated with pre-term birth, but what about babies born post-term? New research published in the International Journal of Epidemiology has found that post-term birth, defined as a birth after a pregnancy of 42 weeks, is associated with more behavioural and emotional problems in early childhood, ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244926.php

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According to a study conducted by the General Medical Council (GMC), approximately 1 in 20 prescriptions GPs in the UK write contain an error. The researchers found that although doctors take prescribing seriously, improvements need to be made in order to lower the rate of prescription errors... ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244967.php

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Abdominal tumors involving both roots of the celiac and superior mesenteric artery (SMA) are deemed unresectable by conventional surgical methods, as removal would cause necrosis of the organs that are supplied by those blood vessels... ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244869.php

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Large majorities of older Americans experience significant and troubling gaps in their primary care, according to a new national survey, "How Does It Feel? The Older Adult Health Care Experience," released by the John A. Hartford Foundation, a champion for improved geriatric care and longtime partner of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244895.php

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Experts from Durham University have identified a new gene that could help the development of fertility treatments in humans in the future. Scientists from Durham University, UK, and Osaka University, Japan, looking at fertility in mice, have discovered for the first time that the gene, which makes a protein called PDILT, enables sperm to bind to an ...

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Researchers studying multiple sclerosis (MS) have long been looking for the specific molecules in the body that cause lesions in myelin, the fatty, insulating cells that sheathe the nerves... ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244804.php

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