Archive: 04/03/2014

Study results confirm BMI is a direct cause of Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure

(Medical Xpress)—Using new genetic evidence, an international team of scientists led by experts at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has found that ...

Mar 4, 2014

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Using Google Glass in the operating room

At this point, only a few people are using Google Glass, Google's wearable eyeglasses-like computer. The device isn't yet commercially available.

Mar 4, 2014

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The promise of particle beam cancer therapy

Accelerator physicists are natural-born problem solvers, finding ever more powerful ways to generate and steer particle beams for research into the mysteries of physics, materials, and matter. And from the very beginning, ...

Mar 4, 2014

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Cigarette smoking may cause physical changes in brains of young smokers, study shows

(Medical Xpress)—The young, it turns out, smoke more than any other age group in America. Unfortunately, the period of life ranging from late adolescence to early adulthood is also a time when the brain is still developing.

Mar 4, 2014

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Study shows male hormones play an important role in female fertility

(Medical Xpress)—Several fertility clinics across the country are beginning to administer testosterone, either through a patch or a gel on the skin, to increase the number of eggs produced by certain women undergoing in ...

Mar 4, 2014

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Cancer drugs underprescribed in Wales compared to England

Patients suffering from cancer in England are up to seven times more likely to be prescribed expensive cancer drugs than fellow sufferers in Wales, a new study assessing the impact of the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) has revealed.

Mar 4, 2014

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Study identifies key protein that helps prevent lung cancer tumors from being destroyed

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have discovered a protein, Mcl-1, that helps enable one of the most common and deadly types of cancer to survive radiation and drug treatments.

Mar 4, 2014

Single-patient trials determine statin tolerability

(HealthDay)—In patients with statin-related myalgia, single-patient randomized trials of statin and placebo can determine whether the myalgia is actually due to the statin, according to a small study published in the March ...

Mar 4, 2014

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Change increases postpartum pertussis vaccination

(HealthDay)—Changing in-hospital ordering procedures increases the postpartum pertussis vaccination rate to 69 percent, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Mar 4, 2014

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Longer LOS for new heart failure in medicaid patients

(HealthDay)—Medicaid patients and patients with more comorbidities have a longer length of stay (LOS) for incident heart failure, compared to other hospitalized cases, according to a study published in the January/February ...

Mar 4, 2014

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