Johns Hopkins University
Study: Anti-clotting drugs rarely needed in children with big-bone fractures
(Medical Xpress) -- Children with pelvic and thigh fractures develop dangerous blood clots so rarely that anti-clotting therapy should be given only to those with underlying conditions that increase clotting risk, according ...
Pediatrics
May 22, 2012 |
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Death risk for marathoners remains low during or soon after race
Even though hundreds of thousands more people finished grueling 26.2 mile marathons in the United States in 2009 compared to a decade earlier, a runner’s risk of dying during or soon after the race has remained very ...
Health
May 16, 2012 |
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Getting a grip on memories
(Medical Xpress) -- Having a fat head may not be a bad thing, according to new findings at The Johns Hopkins University. As reported in the February 9 issue of Neuron, Hopkins researchers have made a significant discovery as to ...
Neuroscience
May 08, 2012 |
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Skin cancer increasingly common in teens and young adults
(Medical Xpress) -- With summer just around the corner, pediatricians at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center are sounding the alarm on a disturbing trend: A growing number of teenagers and young adults diagnosed with skin ...
Cancer
May 07, 2012 |
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IOM report recommends US expand drug safety monitoring after approval
Pharmaceutical drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but later re-called from the market—such as the antidiabetic drug Avandia and pain-reliever Vioxx—were the impetus for an Institute of Medicine ...
Medications
May 02, 2012 |
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Big doses of vitamin C may lower blood pressure
(Medical Xpress) -- Taking large doses of vitamin C may moderately reduce blood pressure, according to an analysis of years of research by Johns Hopkins scientists. But the researchers stopped short of suggesting people load ...
Health
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Johns Hopkins cardiologists advocate statin use for primary prevention of heart disease in JAMA's first viewpoint featur
(Medical Xpress) -- Writing the first commentary for a new feature in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), called Viewpoint, Johns Hopkins cardiologists make the case for why a 55-year-old man with a 10 ...
Cardiology
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Risk of blood loss in childhood back surgery varies with cause of spine deformity
(Medical Xpress) -- The relative risk of blood loss during corrective spine surgery in children appears linked to the underlying condition causing the spinal deformity, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Children’s ...
Surgery
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Detectable pancreatic lesions common in people at high risk for hereditary pancreatic cancer
(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins researchers have found that more than four in 10 people considered at high risk for hereditary pancreatic cancer have small pancreatic lesions long before they ...
Cancer
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Early warning system for seizures could cut false alarms
Epilepsy affects 50 million people worldwide, but in a third of these cases, medication cannot keep seizures from occurring. One solution is to shoot a short pulse of electricity to the brain to stamp out ...
Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2012 |
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Genetic risk, stressful early infancy join to increase risk for schizophrenia
Working with genetically engineered mice and the genomes of thousands of people with schizophrenia, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they now better understand how both nature and nurture can affect one’s ...
Medical research
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery can perform non-emergency angioplasty safely and effectively
(Medical Xpress) -- Patients who have non-emergency angioplasty to open blocked heart vessels have no greater risk of death or complications when they have the procedure at hospitals without cardiac surgery backup. That is ...
Cardiology
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Pediatricians Sound Alarm On Overuse Sports Injuries
(Medical Xpress) -- Baseball shoulder, gymnast wrist, runner’s knee. These are just a few of the labels sports medicine specialists use to describe the increasing number of repetitive-use injuries they see in young children.
Health
Mar 22, 2012 |
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New and comprehensive study of diabetes care in Trinidad and Tobago released
The most current and comprehensive study in almost a decade of people with diabetes and the health care services they receive in Trinidad and Tobago has been completed by a team of experts from the Trinidad and Tobago Health ...
Diabetes
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Brain cancer blood vessels not substantially tumor-derived
(Medical Xpress) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have published laboratory data refuting studies that suggest blood vessels that form within brain cancers are largely made up of cancer cells. The theory of cancer-based ...
Cancer
Mar 09, 2012 |
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