Archive: 09/09/2019

Zika diagnostic test granted market authorization by FDA

Zika virus can cause babies to be born with devastating brain damage. But the signs of Zika infection in adults—rash, fever, headache and body aches—are nonspecific, so a pregnant woman who develops such symptoms can't ...

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How salt increases blood pressure

Salt-sensitive hypertension affects about half of people with high blood pressure, but the precise mechanism of how dietary salt contributes to blood pressure elevation, kidney injury and cardiovascular disease remains unclear.

Sep 9, 2019

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Zebrafish aid effort to regenerate damaged retinas

The tiny zebrafish may hold the secret to regenerating damaged retinas in humans, Vanderbilt University researchers reported last week in the journal Cell Reports.

Sep 9, 2019

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The birth of vision from the retina to the brain

How is the retina formed? And how do neurons differentiate to become individual components of the visual system? By focusing on the early stages of this complex process, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, ...

Sep 9, 2019

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Reversing muscular dystrophy

A new technology has brought researchers one step closer to a future cure for congenital muscular dystrophy type1A, a devastating muscle disease that affects children.

Sep 9, 2019

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Researchers lead new national guidance on how to stay fit and healthy

Guidance on how the UK population can stay fit and healthy has been updated thanks to a major review led by the University of Bristol.

Sep 9, 2019

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Years later, cancer cases linger over 9/11 anniversary

Jacquelin Febrillet was 26 years old on September 11, 2001 when jihadist hijackers flew two passenger jets into the World Trade Center just two blocks from where she worked.

Sep 9, 2019

9 Florida students hospitalized for eating 'THC-laced candy'

Authorities say nine students from a Florida charter school ate marijuana-infused candy and were hospitalized with stomach pains.

Sep 9, 2019

Scottish study shows that autoantibody test followed by CT imaging may reduce lung cancer mortality

A combination of the EarlyCDT-Lung Test followed by CT imaging in Scottish patients at risk for lung cancer resulted in a significant decrease in late stage diagnosis of lung cancer and may decrease lung cancer specific mortality, ...

Sep 9, 2019

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Video assisted lung surgery reduces complications and hospital stays compared to open surgery

Video-assisted thoracic surgery is associated with lower in-hospital complications and shorter length of stay compared with open surgery among British patients who were diagnosed at an early stage of lung cancer, according ...

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Archive: 09/09/2019

Zika diagnostic test granted market authorization by FDA

How salt increases blood pressure

Zebrafish aid effort to regenerate damaged retinas

The birth of vision from the retina to the brain

Reversing muscular dystrophy

Researchers lead new national guidance on how to stay fit and healthy

Years later, cancer cases linger over 9/11 anniversary

9 Florida students hospitalized for eating 'THC-laced candy'

Scottish study shows that autoantibody test followed by CT imaging may reduce lung cancer mortality

Video assisted lung surgery reduces complications and hospital stays compared to open surgery

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