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A Man with Back Pain and a Mass in the Lung
A 26-year-old man experienced the sudden onset of back pain. MRI disclosed a pathologic fracture of the T9 vertebral body. A chest radiograph and CT of the chest showed a mass in the upper lobe of the left lung.

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Connexin-43 upregulation promotes tumor cell adhesion
BMC Medicine 2008, 6:20
The gap junction protein connexin-43 is upregulated in cancer cells and enhances adhesion to lung endothelium, suggesting that it may play a role in tumor vasculogenesis and may serve as a marker for tumor micrometastases.

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Optimal switch strategies for antipsychotics
BMC Medicine 2008, 6:17
Changing patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders from olanzapine to risperidone is safe and more effective if a gradual withdrawal of olanzapine is combined with rapid initiation of the new medication.

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Humpback whales help pioneer new heart treatments

LONDON, United Kingdom (CNN) -- Medicine has much to learn from nature. There are literally millions of medical compounds out there that could cure diseases, help improve treatment and even protect us from...

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If you had salmonella poisoning, would you know?

Dan Kruse started to feel weak one day while hanging out with his friends in a park. The next day, the eighth-grader woke up completely jaundiced -- the whites of his eyes were yellow -- and he...