Archive: 08/31/2011
Potatoes reduce blood pressure in people with obesity and high blood pressure
The potato's stereotype as a fattening food for health-conscious folks to avoid is getting another revision today as scientists report that just a couple servings of spuds a day reduces blood pressure almost as much as oatmeal ...
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BUSM professor outlines best practices for treating victims of sexual assault
Judith A. Linden, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and vice chair for education in the department of emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has written ...
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Researchers find a new culprit in Alzheimer's disease: Too many blood vessels
University of British Columbia scientists may have uncovered a new explanation for how Alzheimer's disease destroys the brain – a profusion of blood vessels.
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Prolonging CPR doesn't help heart patients: study
A study involving nearly 10,000 cardiac arrest patients from 10 North American regions has shown that extending the period of initial cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by paramedics and firefighters from one to three minutes ...
Cardiology
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Insomnia affects 23 percent of US workers: study
Insomnia affects around 23 percent of US workers, and brings a national cost for the sleeping disorder at $63.2 billion, a study showed Wednesday.
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Choice of seizure drug for brain tumor patients may affect survival
New research suggests brain tumor patients who take the seizure drug valproic acid on top of standard treatment may live longer than people who take other kinds of epilepsy medications to control seizures. The research is ...
Neuroscience
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Adjuvant therapy perhaps not necessary for older breast cancer patients
Breast cancer patients over the age of 60 with early-stage, hormone-responsive small tumors who forego adjuvant endocrine, also called hormonal therapy, are not at an increased risk of mortality compared to women of the same ...
Cancer
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Medicinal chemists modify sea bacteria byproduct for use as potential cancer drug
University of Florida researchers have modified a toxic chemical produced by tiny marine microbes and successfully deployed it against laboratory models of colon cancer.
Cancer
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Trust in your neighbors could benefit your health, study shows
Here's an easy way to improve your health: trust your neighbors. A new study from the University of Missouri shows that increasing trust in neighbors is associated with better self-reported health.
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Scientists reveal how white blood cell promotes growth and spread of cancer
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown that a particular white blood cell plays a direct role in the development and spread of cancerous tumors. Their work sheds new light on the development of the disease ...
Cancer
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US man survives pruning shears in eye socket
An 86-year-old American has made a stunning recovery after a gardening accident left him with a pair of pruning shears impaled through an eye socket deep into his skull.
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Commonly used defibrillators raise risk of problems
When it comes to defibrillators, simpler may be safer, even though more complex machines are used on a majority of patients.
Cardiology
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Computer model for testing heart-disease drugs developed
UC Davis researchers have developed an accurate computer model to test the effects of medications for arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm, before they are used in patients.
Medical research
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Dangerous arrhythmia analyzed in a heartbeat
Just one second, one heartbeat. That's what is needed for a new, noninvasive functional imaging technology to record data for locating the source in the heart of a dangerous cardiac arrhythmia called ventricular ...
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Research gives new hope to those with rare vascular cancer
A specific genetic alteration has been discovered as a defining feature of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE), a rare but devastating vascular cancer. These findings have also been used to develop a new diagnostic test ...
Cancer
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