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Color-coding, rearranging food products improves healthy choices in hospital cafeteria

A simple program involving color-coded food labeling and adjusting the way food items are positioned in display cases was successful in encouraging more healthful food choices in a large hospital cafeteria. ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newly identified type of immune cell may be important protector against sepsis

Investigators in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Systems Biology have discovered a previously unknown type of immune cell, a B cell that can produce the important growth factor GM-CSF, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New class of antiangiogenesis drugs identified

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have discovered the first of an entirely new class of antiangiogenesis drugs – agents that interfere with the development of blood vessels. In a report in Proceedings of ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stroke therapy window might be extended past nine hours for some

Some patients who suffer a stroke as a result of a blockage in an artery in the brain may benefit from a clot-busting drug nine or more hours after the onset of symptoms. The findings are published in the online edition of ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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




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Researchers find clues to common birth defect in gene expression data

Researchers at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), The Jackson Laboratory and other institutes have uncovered 27 new candidate genes for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a common and often deadly birth defect.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blood test accurately distinguishes depressed patients from healthy controls

The initial assessment of a blood test to help diagnose major depressive disorder indicates it may become a useful clinical tool. In a paper published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, a team including Massachusetts Genera ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study defines a new genetic subtype of lung cancer

A report from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center has defined the role of a recently identified gene abnormality in a deadly form of lung cancer. Tumors driven by rearrangements in the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Novel gene mutations associated with bile duct cancer

Investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have identified a new genetic signature associated with bile duct cancer, a usually deadly tumor for which effective treatment currently is limited. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find novel way to prevent drug-induced liver injury

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel strategy to protect the liver from drug-induced injury and improve associated drug safety. In their report receiving advance online publication in ...

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created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing what's inside a tumor

Gliomas, the most common types of brain tumor, are also among the deadliest cancers: Their mortality rate is nearly 100 percent, in part because there are very few treatments available. 

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Participating in marathons, half-marathons not found to increase risk of cardiac arrest

Participation in marathon and half-marathon races is at an all-time high, but numerous reports of race-related cardiac arrests have called the safety of this activity into question. A new study finds that participating in ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How can pediatric HIV be eliminated in Zimbabwe?

Eliminating new infant HIV infections in Zimbabwe will require not only improved access to antiretroviral medications but also support to help HIV-infected mothers continue taking their medication and safely reduce or eliminate ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Experimental vaccine partially protects monkeys from HIV-like infection

Results from a recent study show that novel vaccine combinations can provide partial protection against infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys. In addition, in the animals that became infected, ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

What makes patients complex? Ask their primary care physicians

As Americans live longer with multiple medical conditions, managing their care is becoming increasingly challenging. Being able to define and measure patient complexity has important implications for how care is organized, ...

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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