Archive: 09/09/2011
Researchers use new tool to counter multiple myeloma drug resistance
Moffitt Cancer Center researchers, and colleagues, are pioneering promising research utilizing a monitoring technology that could provide a better understanding of acquired drug resistance and assist in clinical decision-making ...
Cancer
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Birth control pills affect memory, study finds
Women who use contraceptives like birth control pills experience memory changes, according to new UC Irvine research. Their ability to remember the gist of an emotional event improves, while women not using the contraceptives ...
Neuroscience
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Stanford Hospital privacy breach puts data online
(AP) -- Stanford Hospital in California is blaming a subcontractor used by an outside vendor for a privacy breach that led to the posting online of medical information for thousands of emergency room patients.
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Study tests use of warm-heart transplants
Rob Evans, a 61-year-old social worker from Apache Junction, Ariz., got the good news on Father's Day: After 3.5 years, doctors had found him a heart and were preparing to bring it to the University of California-Los Angeles, ...
Cardiology
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Patients should know if their doctors get paid by drug firms
Your doctor gives you an expensive new drug to control your cholesterol, or recommends a certain brand of artificial hip, or says you need a stent to open a clogged artery.
Health
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Whole-parasite malaria vaccine shows promise in clinical trial
For the first time, a malaria vaccine that uses the entire malaria parasite has proven safe and shown promise to produce a strong immune response in a clinical trial, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at ...
Medical research
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Novel approach scores first success against elusive cancer gene
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have successfully disrupted the function of a cancer gene involved in the formation of most human tumors by tampering with the gene's "on" switch and growth signals, rather than targeting ...
Cancer
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Study finds hospitals of last resort deliver lower quality of lung cancer care
A new study finds that lung cancer patients treated in hospitals that care for a high percentage of uninsured and Medicaid-insured patients, so-called "high safety-net burden facilities," were significantly less likely to ...
Cancer
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Changes to distribution of livers for transplant proposed
Transplantation specialists have proposed changes to the allocation and distribution of organs used for liver transplants. The recommended policy modifications take into account the scarcity of available organs, ensuring ...
Other
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Body clock found to regulate platelet function
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have demonstrated that the circadian system, the body's internal clock, regulates human platelet function and causes a peak in platelet activation corresponding to the known ...
Cardiology
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Emotional impact of 9/11 attacks seen in brain's response to negative visual images
In the wake of the 10th Anniversary of the September 11th attacks, research published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress reveals how the attacks impacted the psychological processes of those not directly exposed to the at ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Rhythm is it: Ion channels ensure the heart keeps time
The heartbeat is the result of rhythmic contractions of the heart muscle, which are in turn regulated by electrical signals called action potentials. Action potentials result from the controlled flow of ions into heart muscle ...
Cardiology
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Telepsychiatry initiative shows promising results
A statewide telepsychiatry initiative in South Carolina is changing the way that emergency psychiatric patients are treated, and preliminary results are encouraging.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Popular flu medication's neurologic side effects in children studied
Oseltamivir is the weapon of choice for preventing influenza infection from taking hold, but like any other drug, it also has the potential for adverse effects. Children in particular are susceptible ...
Medical research
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Researchers work to develop screening method for superbug
A team of researchers from the University of Houston (UH) and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (SLEH) are working to develop improved screening methods to detect a potentially lethal, drug-resistant superbug ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 09, 2011 |
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