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		<title>A family of troublemakers known as XMRV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A long-delayed paper on the connection between chronic fatigue syndrome and XMRV (xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) finally surfaced last week in PNAS. Astute readers may recall that XMRV has also been linked to prostate cancer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=3036</link>
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		<title>NASCAR weekend full of health care success stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend's slate of racing at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, including the marquee Emory Healthcare 500  NASCAR Sprint Cup race Sunday night, will have a uniquely Emory flavor that exceeds far beyond just the naming rights for the event that will be watched by millions of fans around the country. Emory Healthcare is the official healthcare partner for the Atlanta Motor Speedway and this year’s Emory Healthcare 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=3046</link>
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		<title>A concussion is more than just a headache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To ensure better management of sports concussions, physicians at Emory Sports Medicine Center have incorporated Immediate Post-concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT) into their program for high school athletes. Concussions occur in about 10 percent of all athletes in contact sports. They are caused by sudden and violent rocking of the brain inside the skull [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=3024</link>
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		<title>First of its kind neurosurgery boot camp held at Emory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emory’s Department of Neurosurgery recently hosted a two-day boot camp for first-year neurosurgery residents. The unique event was part of a new national course launched by the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) in Atlanta and five other cities including Boston, Portland and Chicago. The course focused on fundamental skills, patient safety, professionalism and communications. Day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=3003</link>
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		<title>When bone marrow goes bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sagar Lonial, MD, an oncologist at Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, treats people with multiple myeloma. The prognosis  for people with this type of cancer is poor; however, researchers are gaining on the disease. Twenty years ago, the survival rate was two to three years; now, it’s four to five.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=2982</link>
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		<title>Stem cell research center gets NSF support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $3 million to Georgia Tech to fund a center  that will develop engineering methods for stem cell production. The program's co-leaders are Todd McDevitt, PhD, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering and Robert Nerem, director of the Emory/Georgia Tech Center for Regenerative Medicine (GTEC), which will administer the award.]]></description>
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		<title>New technology enables precision in jaw reconstruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people have misaligned jaws where the upper and lower teeth don’t match, the functional impact ranges from articulation and speech problems to problems with eating. When jaw reconstruction is required, the outcome must be precise. The way people eat and bite is a very sensitive mechanism, and teeth have to meet in a certain way in order to bite and chew correctly. Planning the surgery is the key.  A new system being used by Emory oral and maxillofacial surgeons helps them reach a level of preoperative planning that they had not been able to achieve before.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=2944</link>
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		<title>Welcome to the heat: Alzheimer&#8217;s Breakthrough Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Kukar, a new Emory faculty member in pharmacology, is participating in a charity bicycle ride for Alzheimer's disease research called the Alzheimer's Breakthrough Ride.  On Thursday and Friday, he will be riding from Oklahoma City, OK to Wichita, KS. Tomorrow's ride is 100 miles, and it's supposed to be 97°F in Wichita.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=2949</link>
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		<title>New drug strategy against fragile X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even as clinical trials examining potential treatments for fragile X syndrome gain momentum, Emory scientists have identified a new strategy for treating the neurodevelopmental disorder.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=2923</link>
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		<title>Little eyes &#8211; big research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having a newborn and managing all that comes with caring for that new little one is a big job. Add to that frequent trips to the ophthalmologist following a cataract surgery—yes, cataract surgery on a baby—and you might have highly stressed parents. But the parents of little James and slightly older M.J. seem unfazed by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=2866</link>
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