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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 2 (UPI) — Postmortem genetic testing — molecular autopsy — has been found to detect genetic defects that impair the heart's rhythm center, say U.S. researchers.
Conventional autopsies found no cause of death for 49 young people who died suddenly and inexplicably at an average age of 14, but using molecular […]

MADISON, N.J., Feb. 2 (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday expanded the labeling of Wyeth's anti-rejection drug Rapamune for high-risk kidney transplants.
The drug, sirolimus, also known as rapamycin, received an indication to treat high-risk kidney-transplant patients — individuals who are African-American, are repeat transplant patients or who are at risk due […]

LONDON, Feb. 2 (UPI) — More people are dying their hair, and more are experiencing an allergic reaction such as dermatitis and facial swelling, says a London dermatologist.
More than two-thirds of hair dyes currently contain para-phenylenediamine, or PPD, and other related agents; however, because of reactions it has been banned from hair dyes in […]

By ED SUSMAN UPI Medical Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 2 (UPI) — Along with efforts of interventional radiologists to snake catheters into smaller and smaller blood vessels, allowing for “Band-Aid” surgeries that replace major open operations, come new agents that make those procedures more effective.
Among those agents described at this week's International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy […]

By LIDIA WASOWICZ UPI Senior Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 (UPI) — Neuroscientists looking at faces from the brain's point of view are starting to see autism in a new light.
In one convention-crashing investigation, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington came up with evidence that suggests the brain may not have developed […]