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Latitude and cancer rates in US states: Aaron Blaisdell’s intuition confirmed
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4:00 AM
In the comments section of my previous post on cancer rates in the US states ( ) my friend Aaron Blaisdell noted that: …comparing states t...
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Aging and cancer: The importance of taking a hard look at the numbers
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The table below is from a study by Hayat and colleagues ( ). It illustrates one common trend regarding cancer – it increases dramatically i...
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New type of artificial knee, designed for individual patients, is being implanted at St. Joseph East in Lexington
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2:24 PM
Saint Joseph East hospital in Lexington is Kentucky's first hospital to offer a customized total knee replacement system in which each ...
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UK team gets $1.5 million NIH grant to continue success with cell-level study of Alzheimer's disease factor
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3:20 PM
University of Kentucky researchers have provided the first direct evidence that activated astrocytes could play a harmful role in Alzheimer...
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