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The chief of hematology and medical oncology has broken the world record for dribbling a basketball while running over a 24-hour period. Tulane medical students are holding an event called Bounce for Life to support research in Curiel's lab.

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While many researchers continue to work on an effective vaccine that will prevent AIDS, a group of scientists is taking a new approach - focusing on specific tissues.

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Researchers report that people with metabolic syndrome (Syndrome X) are nearly 2.5 times more likely to suffer from chronic kidney disease.

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Increases in HIV infection rates often follow in the wake of civil strife, and Haiti is no exception, says an infectious disease expert who has been working in Haiti to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their newborns.

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The higher systolic blood pressure is in children, the more likely they are to have hardened arteries in their late 30s and 40s, say researchers. The study shows shows the importance of checking children's blood pressure, says lead author Shengxu Li.

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One in four people in China may suffer from high blood pressure, but barely half of them know they have hypertension. Of those who know, 63 percent have it under control. Only half of those who knew they had hypertension had changed diet or exercise habits to try to control it.

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Researchers have confirmed several genes that determine the inheritance of obesity. This is the first study of longitudinal data to link body mass measurements taken over several decades to specific genes located on chromosomes.

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Senator John Breaux, a leader in national politics who has served Louisiana in Congress for 32 years, will deliver the commencement address to approximately 2000 graduates on May 22 at 9:30 a.m. in the Louisiana Superdome.

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Researchers have published results from the first study to intensively examine high-risk young children and to look at how reliable and valid diagnosis of an attachment disorder might be.

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That children are heavier on average today than children were a decade ago may now be common knowledge. The rise in weight appears to be accompanied by a significant increase in blood pressure among children between the ages of 8 and 17, say epidemiologists.