News tagged with wake forest

Researchers disprove long-standing belief about HIV treatment

Jul 25, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have disproved a long-standing clinical belief that the hepatitis C virus slows or stunts the immune system's ability to restore itself after HIV patients are treated ...

Study shows emergency physicians have good first instincts in diagnosing heart attacks

Medicine & Health / Other

Jul 24, 2008 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

A study out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrates emergency room doctors are correctly identifying patients who are having a heart attack, even when laboratory tests haven't yet confirmed it.

Researchers say popular fish contains potentially dangerous fatty acid combination

Medicine & Health / Research

Jul 08, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (38) | 1

Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake ...