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Martin Salia, a doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, may be moved to the United States, becoming the tenth patient sent to the country. Salia is a native of Sierra Leone, who is currently living in Maryland.

Lemtrada, a drug manufactured by Genzyme for the treatment of MS has been approved for sale in the U.S. The drug, however, will come with a boxed warning.

Researchers at Western University are using cutting-edge genetic mutation-analysis software developed in their lab to interpret mutations in tumour genome that may provide insight into determining which breast cancer tum...

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(International Osteoporosis Foundation) Researchers from Australia, Hong Kong/China, Malaysia, and Singapore received the International Osteoporosis Foundation's Young Investigators Awards, presented at the IOF Regionals...

(International Osteoporosis Foundation) An epidemiological study presented at the 5th Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting is one of the first to project the immense and growing economic cost of osteoporotic fractures in Ch...

(The JAMA Network Journals) In patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, neither aspirin nor clonidine (a medication primarily used to treat high blood pressure) taken before and after surgery reduced the risk of acute kid...

(NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Using two drugs was no more effective than a single drug in slowing disease progression in people with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Among kidney transplant recipients, a 3-month course of the antibiotic levofloxacin following transplantation did not prevent the major complication known as BK virus from appearing in the uri...

(Mayo Clinic) A chemotherapy regimen consisting of procarbazine, CCNU, and vincristine administered following radiation therapy improved progression-free survival and overall survival in adults with low-grade gliomas, a ...

(American Society of Nephrology) The results of numerous high-impact clinical trials that could affect kidney-related medical care will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2014, Nov. 11-16 at the Pennsylvania Convention Cent...