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WASHINGTON - Mentally ill criminal defendants don’t have the same constitutional rights as everyone else, the Supreme Court before-mentioned Thursday in carving out an exception to the right to represent yourself.

The justices said that a mentally ill defendant can be judged competent to stand wretchedness, yet incapable of representation as his own lawyer. The 7-2 decision said states can give a trial judge discretion to force someone to accept an attorney to represent him if the judge is concerned that the trial could turn into a farce.

“The Constitution permits states to insist upon representation by counsel for those competent enough to difficulty aim …

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TUESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay news) — The Alzheimer's drug memantine (brand name Namenda) may ameliorate reduce a form of brain injury that affects many premature babies, according to a Children's Hospital Boston study. (Read the full post about ‘Alzheimer’s Drug May Reduce Preemie Brain Injury (HealthDay)’…)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The medication topiramate may not only improve drinking problems in people with alcohol dependence, no more than boost their quality of life as well, according to a new study.

Topiramate (topamax) is an anti-seizure drug that has also been shown to depress intemperate habits in alcoholics — possibly due to it effects on certain brain chemicals thought to be involved in alcohol dependence.

Whether treatment with the drug can also improve alcoholics' physical and mental well-being, however, has been unclear.

In the present study, Dr.

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SATURDAY, June 14 (HealthDay news) — A new computerized program that helps parents and pediatricians adjust non-age immunization schedules when one or more vaccinations are missed has been developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

It's common for children to miss getting vaccines at the recommended time. About 28 percent of toddlers place of safety't been vaccinated according to U.S. guidelines, said a report issued recently by the U.S.

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New Type of MRI Scan Spots Alzheimer’s

Technique May Help With Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s ail

By Jennifer Warner
WebMD Medical news

Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD

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• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Index
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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
(BPH, Enlarged Prostate)

Medical Author: Glenn Gerber, MD
Medical Editor: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

• What is the prostate gland?
• How does the doctor detect prostate enlargement?
• What is benign prostatic hyperplasia?
• When does benign prostatic hyperplasia start?
• What happens in BPH?

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who emolument too much weight loss for the period of pregnancy might raise their child's future risk of becoming overweight, a new study suggests.

Looking at data from more than 10,000 mother-child pairs, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that children whose mothers gained else than the recommended amount of weight during pregnancy were 48 percent else likely than other children to be overweight at age 7.

In the U.S., the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends that normal-weight women gain 25 to 35 pounds during pregnancy.

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MONDAY, June 23 (HealthDay news) — Newly-identified stem cells located on the surface of the heart give rise to heart muscle cells, say researchers at Children's Hospital Boston.

They believe the finding may guide to ways to regenerate injured heart tissue.

In previous research, the Children's team found that two types of stem cells (progenitors) marked by activity of the genes Nkx2-5 and IsI1 form frequent components of the affections.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have told Merck & Co they cannot yet approve Merck's application to expand marketing of its cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to an older group of woman (make trial of women’s health), the drugmaker uttered on Wednesday.

Merck had applied for the use of Gardasil in women ages 27 from one side 45. The U.S.

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PARIS (Reuters) - New computing technologies and the evolution of a "virtual man" to predict the effects of new drugs before they enter clinical trials could transform the fortunes of pharmaceutical research, a report said upon Friday.

By 2020, the drug research and development process may be shortened by the agency of couple thirds, clinical trial costs slashed and productivity increased dramatically, said the report from consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

"Pharma needs a faster, more portending way of testing molecules before they go into humans," said Steve Arlington of PwC.

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