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The Young Female Athlete

Children's Hospital Boston primary care sports medicine physician Ellen Geminiani, MD, specializes in family, sports and dance medicine.

Value of Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising Oversold, Study Finds

In the first-ever controlled study measuring the effectiveness of pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), researchers found only a modest effect on drug sales. In some cases, DTCA had no effect at all.

Tracing Breast Cancer

The kidneys squeeze out more than a liter of urine each day. Over the past 13 years, Marsha Moses and her colleagues have been panning the amber liquid for proteins and other particles that might indicate the presence of cancer and other disease.

Scientists Unmask Brain's Hidden Potential

Previous research has found that when vision is lost, a person

Middle Eastern Families Yield intriguing Clues to Autism

Enuresis affects 10 to 20 percent of first-grade boys and 8 to 17 percent of first-grade girls. Diurnal enuresis (daytime incontinence) usually is not diagnosed until age 5 or 6.

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