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Brain damage found in cognitively normal people with Alzheimer's marker
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked a potential indicator of Alzheimer's disease to brain damage in humans with no signs of mental impairment.
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Johns Hopkins leads first 12-patient, multicenter 'domino donor' kidney transplant
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City successfully completed Saturday the first six-way, multihospital, domino kidney transplant. ...
Silver is the key to reducing pneumonia associated with breathing tubes
Aug 19, 2008 |
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People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of the ...
4 out of 106 heart replacement valves from pig hearts failed
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Pig heart valves used to replace defective aortic valves in human patients failed much earlier and more often than expected, says a report from cardiac surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. This ...
New tool calculates risk of bleeding in heart attack patients
Apr 14, 2009 |
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With eight basic medical facts in hand, doctors can now estimate the risk of bleeding for a patient having a heart attack. Using clinical variables, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Duke ...
Md. doctor: Kidney transplant record achieved
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A transplant surgeon who completed an unprecedented eight-way kidney swap this week said Tuesday he believes such intricate, multistate exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting ...
Post-treatment PET scans can reassure cervical cancer patients
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Whole-body PET (positron emission tomography) scans done three months after completion of cervical cancer therapy can ensure that patients are disease-free or warn that further interventions are needed, according to a study ...
Rice sociologist looks at pediatric physicians' views on religion, spirituality
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current edition ...
Bright tumors, dim prospects
Sep 13, 2007 |
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It doesn't matter how small or large it is, if a cervical tumor glows brightly in a PET scan, it's apt to be more dangerous than dimmer tumors. That's the conclusion of a new study of cervical cancer patients at Washington ...
'Dolphin pads' help prevent bedsores
Apr 03, 2009 |
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They say dolphins are smart, and now people are borrowing a technology that was first used on the mammals.
Sleep loss linked to increase in Alzheimer's plaques
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease makes Alzheimer's brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report online this week ...
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