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Potential new heart attack biomarker uncovered

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Though they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms. In a study appearing in this month's Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, resear ...


Treating cluster headaches with high-flow oxygen appears effective

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with a cluster headache, which is characterized by bouts of excruciating pain usually near the eye or temple, were more likely to report being pain-free within 15 minutes of treatment with high-flow oxygen than patients ...


Cyber hacking could be a thing of the past

Cyber hacking could be a thing of the past

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- High-profile websites are constantly under threat from hackers attempting to paralyse their websites but new research could make such attacks computationally impossible. This research will ...


'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology

'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks ...


New computer model could lead to safer stents

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

After suffering heart attacks, patients often receive stents designed to hold their arteries open. Some of these stents release drugs that are meant to halt tissue growth in arteries, but can have life-threatening side effects ...


From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Almost a century after it was discovered in fruit flies with notches in their wings, the Notch signalling pathway may come to play an important role in the recovery from heart attacks. In a study published ...


Bone marrow cells may significantly reduce risk of second heart attack

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells from heart attack survivors' own bone marrow reduced the risk of death or another heart attack when they were infused into the affected artery after successful stent placement, according to research reported in the ...


CDC: About 1 in 6 Americans have had swine flu (Update)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday.


Study Results Suggest Adult Stem Cells May Help Repair Muscle Cells Damaged by Heart Attack

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study to be published in the December 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Resul ...


Study finds gender gap persists in cardiac care

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gender differences persist in the quality of cardiac care across Ontario, according to a health study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Ontario women who had ...



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