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Prolific plant hunters provide insight in strategy for collecting undiscovered plant species

Today's alarmingly high rate of plant extinction necessitates an increased understanding of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 15 to 30 percent of the world's flowering plants have yet to be discovered, making efficiency ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exercise can improve the health and wellbeing of cancer patients

Exercise can improve the health of cancer patients who have completed their main cancer-related treatment finds a study published in the British Medical Journal.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Duration of RBC storage does not affect short-term pulmonary, immunologic, or coagulation status

There is no difference in early measures of pulmonary function, immunologic status or coagulation status after fresh versus standard issue single-unit red blood cell (RBC) transfusion, according to a new study from the Mayo ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to lung transplantation

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support in awake, non-intubated patients may be an effective strategy for bridging patients to lung transplantation, according to a new study from Germany.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drug helps maintain platelet inhibition and anti-clotting levels prior to cardiac surgery

Patients who discontinued use of an antiplatelet agent such as clopidogrel prior to undergoing cardiac surgery to lower their bleeding risk and received intravenously the platelet inhibitor cangrelor achieved a higher rate ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Findings suggest that severe sepsis can lead to impairment of immune system

An analysis of lung and spleen tissue from patients who died of sepsis revealed certain biochemical, cellular and histological findings that were consistent with immunosuppression, according to a study in the December 21 ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chronic pain in children and adolescents becoming more common

Children who suffer from persistent or recurring chronic pain may miss school, withdraw from social activities, and are at risk of developing internalizing symptoms such as anxiety, in response to their pain. In the first ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Urinary retention due to benign enlarged prostate treated differently in 15 countries

Men who experience a sudden inability to pass urine because of a non-cancerous enlarged prostate are hospitalised and treated differently depending on where they live, according to an international study published online ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early, intensive therapy for type 1 diabetes prevented kidney disease in long-term study

Maintaining good glucose control early in the course of type 1 diabetes could lessen the long-term risk of kidney disease, as measured by a common test of kidney function.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study identifies factors linked with better medication response for treatment of juvenile arthritis

Among patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) who initiated treatment with the drug etanercept, one-third achieved an excellent response, and this response was associated with low measures of disability at study ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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