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Ned Shelley communicates on Thursday about the art sale he is holding to raise money for Parkinsons disease research. Shelley, who has Parkinsons disease, also lost his voice. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Sunset man to sell hundreds of his works for research on Parkinson's disease

Last updated Friday, April 27, 2012 - 5:43am

SUNSET -- His paintings of old barns and country landscapes reveal that Ned Shelley once could hold a paintbrush with no difficulty.

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Antibody found to shrink cancer cells

Victoria Colliver San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 1:33pm

In a potential breakthrough for cancer research, Stanford University immunologists discovered they can shrink or even get rid of a wide range of human cancers by treating them with a single antibody.

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Researchers find rare fungal infection in Arizona

Contributed The Arizona Republic

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 9:45am

PHOENIX -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic say a rare fungal infection that can lead to a cancer-like mass in the intestinal region has surfaced in Arizona and other desert regions.

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Utah at high end for autism rates

Mike Stobbe The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 4:28pm

ATLANTA — One child out of 88 in the U.S. is believed to have autism or a related disorder, an increase in the rate attributed largely to wider screening.

Advocacy groups seized on the new number as further evidence that autism research and services should get more attention.

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USU researchers recognized for work on dementia

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 10:44pm

LOGAN — Researchers at Utah State University who are part of the internationally recognized Cache County Study on Memory in Aging have been recognized by the Utah Alzheimer’s Association.

The group, involving researchers in USU’s Colleges of Education and Human Services, Agriculture and Science, received the ALEXA “A Lifetime of Exceptional Achievement” Award at a gala chaired by Lt. Gov. Greg Bell.

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Measuring in at 8-feet-3 inches, Sultan Kosen of Turkey is listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records at the tallest living man.

World's tallest man stops growing

Contributed Richmond Times-Dispatch

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 9:33am

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Thanks to treatment by researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center, the world's tallest man may have reached his peak.

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$University of Utah mathematicians Chris Remien and Fred Adler with some of the calculus equations that are part of a new method they developed and tested to make it easier for doctors to save Tylenol overdose patients by quickly determining if they can be saved with an antidote or will require a liver transplant to survive. Photo Credit: Lee J. Siegel$

U of U research shows how math can save overdose patients

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 10:54am

SALT LAKE CITY -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a set of calculus equations to make it easier for doctors to save Tylenol overdose patients by quickly estimating how much painkiller they took, when they consumed it and whether they will require a liver transplant to survive.

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Plastic surgery does make you look younger, study finds

Eryn Brown Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:37pm

It turns out plastic surgery really does make you look younger, one study has found -- on average, in the case of one Canadian doctor's patients, 7.2 years younger.

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Cancer Center designing patient-specific treatments

Jennifer Garza The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 7:56am

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The scan, Dr. David Gandara said, looked really good. Romeo Topacio nodded. He has stage four lung cancer -- the deadliest of cancers -- and for a moment he sat quietly, taking in the doctor's words.

Gandara continued, saying the tumor was responding to the targeted treatment. He held a paper with more test results, showing that Topacio's cancer is likely to be responsive to another drug as well.

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Cesarean section, induced labor not always best choice

Shari Roan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 3:37pm

Cesarean sections are often performed when a baby is going to be born early. Likewise, sometimes labor is induced when a woman's water breaks too early in the pregnancy. However, two new studies suggest that these common practices may, in fact, not benefit babies.

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In this Jan. 13, 2012 photo, heart patient Tammy Collins, right, goes through her cardio rehabiltaion workout while being monitored by nurse Julie Walsh at The Ohio State University CarePoint East facility in Columbus, Ohio. After suffering a heart attack and then healing she was apprehensive about how to safely return to her sex life. The American Heart Association says having sex only slightly increase the chance for having a heart attack. And that's true for patients with and without heart disease. (AP Photo/Mike Munden)

Sex safe for most heart patients

Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 5:04pm

CHICAGO -- Good news: Sex is safe for most heart patients. If you're healthy enough to walk up two flights of stairs without chest pain or gasping for breath, you can have a love life.

That advice from a leading doctors' group on Thursday addresses one of the most pressing, least discussed issues facing survivors of heart attacks and other heart patients.

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New colorectal cancer drug shows promise in study

Shari Roan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 2:27pm

LOS ANGELES -- A medication for people with advanced colorectal cancer who have exhausted all other treatment options appears to slow tumor growth and extend life, according to new data.

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Brains show evidence of injury after you eat fat

Carol M. Ostrom The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, December 30, 2011 - 4:20pm

You've heard "a minute on the lips, years on the hips," or some variation. But did it make you put down that frosted butter cookie?

No? OK, here's another bit of research to snack on: After humans and rodents eat a high-fat diet, their brains begin to show evidence of injuries in just 24 hours. If they keep eating that yummy fatty stuff continuously, the area of their brains that regulates weight -- the hypothalamus -- will show evidence of serious inflammation and structural damage.

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Computer brain implants may help paralyzed move again

Erin Allday San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 2:12pm

It sounds like science fiction, but scientists around the world are getting tantalizingly close to building the mind-controlled prosthetic arms, computer cursors and mechanical wheelchairs of the future.

Researchers already have implanted devices into primate brains that let them reach for objects with robotic arms. They've made sensors that attach to a human brain and allow paralyzed people to control a cursor by thinking about it.

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Human organs can now be grown, one cell at a time

Sam Boykin News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 12:59pm

Luke Masella was born with spina bifida, and after 10 years it was getting the best of him.

The congenital disorder affects the development of the nerves and vertebrae along the spinal cord, and can result in paralysis, neurological complications and organ damage.

In Masella's case, his bladder was failing and he spent much of his early childhood in the hospital. He was plagued by aches and pains, and often was too tired and lethargic to get out of bed. Because his bladder didn't work properly, his kidneys were shutting down.

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