Title: More Evidence Links Fractures to Diabetes Drugs
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Created: 7/30/2010 11:22:00 AM
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Cancer cluster: A greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a period of time. The expected number of cancer cases is calculated and compared to the observed number of cancer cases. A cancer cluster is confirmed when the observed/expected ratio is greater than 1.0, and the difference is statistically significant.

What first appears to be a cancer cluster may not be one. Scrutiny of the situation may show that the number of cancer cases is within the expected range for the population.

Cancer cases are most likely to represent a cancer cluster if they involve: (1) one type of cancer, (2) a rare type of cancer, or (3) a type of cancer in a group not usually affected by that cancer. For example, a cancer normally seen in adults occurs in children.

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Title: Listening to Music While Working Hurts Performance
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Created: 7/29/2010 10:38:00 AM
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Favism: A condition characterized by hemolytic anemia
(breakup of red blood cells) after eating fava beans (Vicia fava) or being exposed to the
pollen of the fava plant. This dangerous reaction occurs exclusively in people with a
deficiency of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), an X-linked genetic
trait. However, not all G6PD-deficient families appear at risk for favism, indicating the
additional need for a single autosomal (not X-linked) gene to create the susceptibility to
favism of G6PD-deficient persons. The active hemolytic principle in fava beans is >
likely DOPA-quinone. Differences in susceptibility to favism may be related to differences
in the enzymatic system that converts L-DOPA to DOPA-quinone.

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Colonoscopy: A procedure in which a long flexible viewing tube (a colonoscope) is threaded up through the rectum for the purpose of inspecting the entire colon and rectum and, if there is an abnormality, taking a biopsy of it or removing it. The
colonoscopy procedure requires a thorough bowel cleansing to assure a clear view of the lining. Called also coloscopy.

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Title: Social Ties Can Add Years to Your Life
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Created: 7/28/2010 10:33:00 AM
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Title: Aggressive Treatment for Prostate Cancer Is the Norm
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Created: 7/27/2010 10:23:00 AM
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Coxsackievirus: A family of enteroviruses first found in the town Coxsackie south of Albany, New York. The Coxsackieviruses are separable into two groups: A and B. Type A viruses cause herpangina (sores in the throat) and hand, foot and mouth disease. Type B viruses cause epidemic pleurodynia. Both types A and B viruses can cause meningitis, myocarditis and pericarditis, and acute onset juvenile diabetes. Sometimes written Coxsackie virus. See also: Enterovirus.

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