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Medical research

Fat cells originating from bone marrow found in humans

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that fat cells produced by stem cells from the bone marrow may be linked to chronic illnesses like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers study palliative care preferences of Latinos on dialysis

The cultural values of Latinos have a major impact on their palliative care preferences and healthcare providers should be sensitive to their perspectives, according to a research letter by physicians at the University of ...

Medications

Researchers find new risk posed by opioid pain medication

Patients with no recent history of taking opioid pain medication had a 25 percent higher risk of chronically using the drugs if they received them when discharged from the hospital, according to researchers at the University ...

Oncology & Cancer

CK5 marks cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer shows that protein cytokeratin 5 (CK5), known to be a marker of poor prognosis in breast cancer, also marks ...

Surgery

Researcher contributes to study on safety of anesthesia

An international team of researchers that includes a pediatric anesthesiologist from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado is reporting that limited use of general anesthesia with ...

Oncology & Cancer

Study combats 'anxiety' as barrier to breast cancer screening

Recent American Cancer Society (ACS) breast cancer screening guidelines consider the anxiety created by false-positive mammography an "important but not critical outcome" when deciding who should be screened. In other words, ...

Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes patients find exercise more difficult, study says

Women with Type 2 diabetes experience a barrier to physical activity that threatens to make them more sedentary and cause their health to worsen, according to a new study by Amy Huebschmann, MD, MS of the University of Colorado ...

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