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One in four Americans lacks timely access to optimal care during time-sensitive medical emergencies

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PHILADELPHIA) - Although most Americans live close to some type of emergency room, as many as one in four Americans are more than an hour away from the type of hospital that's most prepared to save their life during a time-sensitive ...





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Next: the pill bottle cap with a cell phone

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- IPhones aren't the only cutting-edge devices on AT&T Inc.'s wireless network. A startup is set to announce that it's making pill-bottle caps that use Ma Bell's network to remind you to take your medicine.


Patients with renal disease under-treated after myocardial infarction

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- People with kidney disease undergo balloon dilation treatment after myocardial infarction less frequently, and therefore have a poorer prognosis. This according to new clinical research published in the journal ...


Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a ...


Neurodegeneration study reveals targets of destruction, UCSF, Stanford study shows

Neurodegeneration study reveals targets of destruction

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists are reporting the strongest evidence to date that neurodegenerative diseases target and progress along distinct neural networks that normally support healthy brain function. The discovery could ...


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Researchers make stem cell breakthrough

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (33) | comments 10

In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells that could lead to possible cures for devastating diseases including spinal ...


Treating even mild gestational diabetes reduces birth complications (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treating pregnant women for mild gestational diabetes resulted in fewer cesarean sections and other serious birthing problems associated with larger than average babies, according to a study conducted in part at the University ...


PMH finding may help some tonsil cancer patients avoid chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinical researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) have confirmed that patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer ("tonsil cancer") harbour a common type of human papilloma virus (HPV16), but also that such cancers ...


Researchers help unlock the secrets of gene regulatory networks

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created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A quartet of studies by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) highlight a special feature on gene regulatory networks recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ...


Flu surveillance boosts control, treatment options (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Because pandemics unfold in unpredictable ways, surveillance of travel-related illness is among the most powerful tools health officials and doctors can use to detect and respond to new pathogens like the novel H1N1 influenza, ...


Modified Bluetooth speeds up telemedicine

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data, such as medical images from patient to the healthcare provider's mobile device for patient assessment almost ...



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