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Sunday, February 26, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Health News

ScienceDaily: Top Health News


Training parents is good medicine for children with autism behavior problems, study suggests

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:43 PM PST

Children with autism spectrum disorders who also have serious behavioral problems responded better to medication combined with training for their parents than to treatment with medication alone, researchers report.

Significant state-by-state differences in black, white life expectancy

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:43 PM PST

A group of researchers tracing disparities in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the US has found that white males live about 7 years longer on average than African American men and that white women live more than 5 years longer than their black counterparts.

Advancing personalized medicine: Tailoring drugs to fit a patient's genetic predisposition

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:27 PM PST

Researchers are examining how drugs can be matched to a patient's genetic information through the study of single nucleotide polymorphisms.

Combined use of recommended heart failure therapies significantly boosts survival odds, study suggests

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:42 AM PST

A new study has found that a combination of several key guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure treatment resulted in an improvement of up to 90 percent in the odds of survival over two years.

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