Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Varicose veins keep some in long pants all year
(HealthDay) -- Varicose veins are a cosmetic issue for most people, but they can be a sign of a serious medical problem for others, an expert says.
Mar 18, 2012
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News tagged with invasive procedure
Surgery
New alternative to surgery lets doctors remove suspicious polyps, keep colon intact
Millions of people each year have polyps successfully removed during colonoscopies. But when a suspicious polyp is bigger than a marble or in a hard-to-reach location, patients are referred for surgery to remove a portion ...
Jun 17, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study examines platelet function testing for guiding antithrombotic treatment before PCI procedures
Among patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing a procedure such as angioplasty, those who received platelet function tests before receiving antithrombotic therapy to determine appropriate clopidogrel dosing and who ...
Sep 20, 2011
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Medical research
Animals in research: Zebrafish
Zebrafish are probably not the first creatures that come to mind when it comes to animals that are valuable for medical research.
May 10, 2013
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Cardiology
Battery-free, light-powered pacemaker may improve quality of life for heart disease patients
Atrial fibrillation—a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia—leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated that approximately 60 million ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Medical research
Programming cells to home to specific tissues may enable more effective cell-based therapies
Stem cell therapies hold enormous potential to address some of the most tragic illnesses, diseases, and tissue defects world-wide. However, the inability to target cells to tissues of interest poses a significant barrier ...
Oct 27, 2011
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Cardiology
Novel, noninvasive measurement a strong predictor for heart failure in general population
A new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and collaborators at various institutions, presented at the 2011 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, shows that ...
Nov 14, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
A new method for conducting a liquid biopsy for liver cancer
A combined team of researchers from Peking Union Medical College and Fanshengzi Clinical Laboratory, has developed a new method for conducting liquid biopsies for liver cancer. Their paper is published in the journal Science ...
Surgery
New study to revolutionise indications for knee surgery
Finnish researchers have shown that one of the most common surgical procedures in the Western world is unnecessary. Keyhole surgeries of the knee are useless for patients whose knee complaints are due to joint abnormalities ...
Dec 27, 2013
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Cardiology
A simple clip could increase quality of life for thousands of patients with a common heart problem
The interventional cardiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) recently conducted the first clinical procedure in Canada using the MitraClip system, which is designed to treat patients suffering from mitral valve ...
Dec 15, 2011
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