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Osteoporosis, or porous bone, is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue, leading to bone fragility and an increased risk of fractures of the hip, spine, and wrist. Men as well as women are affected by osteoporosis. You can't "catch" osteoporosis or give it to someone else. Osteoporosis can be prevented and treated.
Treatment for back pain generally depends on what kind of pain you experience: acute or chronic.
It is important to understand that back pain is a symptom of a medical condition, not a diagnosis itself. Medical problems that can cause back pain include the following: mechanical problems, injuries, acquired conditions and diseases, infections and tumors.
Although anyone can have back pain, a number of factors increase your risk. They include: age, fitness level, diet, heredity, race, the presence of other diseases, occupational risk factors, cigarette smoking.
At some point, back pain affects an estimated 8 in 10 people. It is one of our society's most common medical problems.
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Material outside of a cell can move into cell nucleus more easily than previously believed.
How much and how often people drink — not just the average amount of alcohol they consume over time — independently influence the risk of death from several causes, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
Study improves our understanding of evolution by identifying steps in the evolution of a protein over the last 450 million years.
"Nurse cells" play an important role in deciding which developing infection-fighting cells, called T cells, live and which die.
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 Experimental technique safely differentiates patients with pancreatic cancer, precursor lesions and benign tumors.
... but will likely take a long time to prove it. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a clinical trial on 85 volunteers for a proprietary formulation of resveratrol developed by Sirtris Pharmaceuticals.
"For the first time, we've identified the chemical that triggers the events in the brain that cause this disorder. We believe these findings can be used to develop therapies that can actually stop or slow this process." (William J. Burke, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine)
Researchers from Stanford University and other institutions claim that they developed a non-invasive test that...
New imaging techniques could promote early detection of conditions such as multiple sclerosis.
Protein analysis may offer new therapeutic route
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English Edition. July 3, 2009
