Advancements in techniques and treatment have transformed care for patients with cardiovascular disease over the last decade, and national and state-wide initiatives have been put in place to help close disparity gaps and ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Despite having benefits for information exchange and patient safety, electronic health records (EHR) have had drawbacks for daily practice and the physician experience. Some studies suggest that physicians practicing in solo ...
Apr 21, 2022
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Elevated blood pressure can cause a condition known as perivascular fibrosis, where the outside wall of a blood vessel thickens due to connective tissue build-up. Although recent data has suggested that the thickening is ...
Apr 21, 2022
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Inside brain cells, errors in DNA can accumulate as we age. But in patients with Alzheimer's disease, these errors—known as somatic mutations—may build up at a faster rate. A new study by investigators from Brigham and ...
Apr 20, 2022
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A person's risk of developing diseases such as type 2 diabetes or breast cancer may be influenced by thousands of genetic differences. Looking at a single DNA difference that has a small effect on risk may not be clinically ...
Apr 18, 2022
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Clinical trials represent one the largest investments of collective resources in science. These studies, which recruit participants and rigorously evaluate new interventions and therapeutics, aim to advance scientific knowledge ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital have found that administering the medication combination of mifepristone and misoprostol as early as possible can be done safely and can also help a patient determine whether ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Researchers who studied care provided to more than one million Medicare beneficiaries being treated with chemotherapy for cancer found that on average and in most practices, Black patients had higher rates of chemotherapy-related ...
Apr 7, 2022
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MicroRNA-10b (miR-10b) is a regulatory molecule that is silenced in normal cells of the brain but becomes abundant in more than 90 percent of high-grade gliomas. Glioblastomas (GBM) — the highest grade of glioma — appear ...
Apr 6, 2022
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Headaches such as migraine are among the leading causes of morbidity worldwide, but most treatments provide only partial relief. While scientists know that migraine and related headaches are caused by activity in a part of ...
Mar 28, 2022
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