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Low-birth-weight children should have their blood pressure checked, researchers find
Sep 04, 2008 |
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Blood pressure in low-birth-weight children younger than 3 years of age not only can be measured but should be, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The findings appear in the September ...
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Ventilation treatment in prone position for ARDS does not provide significant survival benefit
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Despite a current suggestion that patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome be positioned lying face down while receiving mechanical ventilation, study results indicate that this positioning does not significantly ...
CWRU to develop technologies for virtual coaching to help patient-doctor communications
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Millions of people suffer from chronic ailments like heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, and need critical information from their healthcare providers to manage those diseases.
Cataract surgery does not appear associated with worsening of age-related macular degeneration
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Age-related macular degeneration does not appear to progress at a higher rate among individuals who have had surgery to treat cataract, contrary to previous reports that treating one cause of vision loss worsens the other, ...
Researchers to develop novel drug detection technology using software that acts like a robotic scientist
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Every time a person snorts cocaine, it doesn’t just go to his or her head: It also provokes a response in the immune system, creating special biomolecules that may serve as a permanent record of each exposure.
Hundreds of genes distinguish patients likely to survive advanced melanoma
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Although the chances of surviving advanced melanoma aren't very good with current therapies, some patients can live for years with cancer that has spread beyond the skin to other organs. Now it may be possible to identify ...
New finding suggests prostate biopsy is not always necessary
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring ...
Blood test identifies women at risk from Alzheimer's
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Middle-aged women with high levels of a specific amino acid in their blood are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer's many years later, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ...
1930s drug slows tumor growth
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...
Kidney function decline increases risk of heart failure and premature death
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Declining kidney function is linked to a higher risk of heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and early death in individuals with or without kidney disease, according to a pair of studies appearing in ...
Small increases in phosphorus mean higher risk of heart disease
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Higher levels of phosphorus in the blood are linked to increased calcification of the coronary arteries— a key marker of heart disease risk, according to a study in an upcoming issue of Clinical Journal of the American So ...
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