Cardiology

Women more likely to die from myocardial infarction than men

Women are more likely to die from a myocardial infarction than men, according to research presented at the Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2012. The gender gap in mortality was independent of patient characteristics, revascularisation ...

Cardiology

CT measures can accurately identify stroke onset

(HealthDay)—Computed tomography (CT) can measure brain water uptake, which can be used to identify stroke patients with symptom onset within 4.5 hours, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in the Annals of Neurology.

Cardiology

Delay in breaking up blood clots means worse stroke outcome

Every 30-minute delay in breaking up a blood clot from a stroke was associated with a 10 percent decrease in the probability of a good outcome, regardless of other factors such as stroke severity, according to late-breaking ...

Medications

COVID-19 therapies are better in combination than alone

There is a steadily growing arsenal of drugs for COVID-19. Researchers from Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and Freie Universität (FU) Berlin have studied the mechanisms ...

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