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Today's News Flashes
3/19/08
Early
Sign of Kidney Disease: Uric Acid
According to the National Kidney Foundation, about 30 percent of patients
with type 1 diabetes will eventually suffer from kidney failure.
Aggressive
Breast Cancer: Watch Your BMI
A woman’s height to weight ratio -- commonly known as her BMI (body mass
index) -- could reflect more than her physical appearance.
Fighting
Uterine Fibroids
For women with multiple uterine fibroids, an interventional radiation
technique could be the answer to a prayer.
Treating
Macular Degeneration
Vascular eye disease is the leading cause of blindness in the United States,
but a protein called Robo4 could reverse or even prevent it.
Frostbite
Treatment Saves Limbs
It’s a chilling thought -- long exposure to extreme cold can freeze skin
tissue, causing the gangrene and amputation in some cases.
FREE
VIDEO: Alzheimer's Vaccine?
Alzheimer's disease is the seventh leading cause of death in the United
States. There are drugs to treat the symptoms, but none to target the cause.
Now, researchers believe they may be one step closer to stopping the disease in
its tracks and saving millions of lives.