THE GOOD NEWS
-- Breast cancer may not be so strongly hereditary as people think. A new study shows that having a mother or sister with the disease seems only to double a woman's risk of getting it herself, rather than tripling it, as earlier studies had suggested.
-- High levels of uric acid are usually evidence of gout but have now also been found in some cases of otherwise symptomless high blood pressure. The discovery may give doctors a new diagnostic tool.
-- Paralyzed dogs have walked again after having minute electric currents passed over their damaged spines. The current...
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