Medical research
Protein is potential new treatment target for adult pulmonary hypertension
A protein critical to development appears to have a grave impact on lungs exposed to smoking and air pollution, researchers report.
Oct 17, 2011
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Medical research
Everest expedition suggests nitric oxide benefits for intensive care patients
The latest results from an expedition to Mount Everest that looked at the body's response to low oxygen levels suggest that drugs or procedures that promote the body's production of a chemical compound called nitric oxide ...
Oct 6, 2011
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Cardiology
Newest screen for newborns will indicate heart problems
About 1 in every 120 babies are born with congenital heart disease (CHD), of which about 25 percent is critical, requiring special care early in life. CHD is responsible for more deaths in the first year of life than any ...
Aug 22, 2011
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Medical research
High sugar and fat diet 'may increase cell damage during sleep'
(Medical Xpress) -- Continuing sleepless nights can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and even death for sufferers of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) who regularly stop breathing during the night for brief periods ...
Jun 24, 2011
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Sleep disorders
Obstructive sleep apnea linked to cancer growth in mice
A new study links the intermittent interruption of breathing that occurs in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to enhanced proliferation of melanoma cancer cells and increased tumor growth in mice, according to researchers ...
May 17, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID can worsen quickly at home: When to call an ambulance
Most Australians diagnosed with COVID-19 recover at home, rather than in a quarantine facility or hospital. About 10% have required hospital treatment. However, a handful have had worsening symptoms, did not receive emergency ...
Sep 3, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Outpatient COVID-19 clues
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific literature and news reports have dedicated much attention to two groups of patients—those who develop critical disease and require intensive care and those who have ...
May 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Suffering, gasping': experts warn of oxygen shortages in poorer virus-threatened nations
As the coronavirus pandemic bears down on vulnerable nations in Africa and South Asia, experts say there are only weeks to help fill chronic shortages of what medics need to help people breathe.
Apr 22, 2020
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Health
Saving lives in poor countries is about adapting to what's already working there
Each year, 5.9 million children under the age of five die, mostly from preventable causes. That's more than 16,000 children every day – and more than 8,000 of these are deaths that could have been prevented with simple, ...
May 4, 2017
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Health
Why does the same exercise exert effects on individuals differently?
Selenoprotein P, a kind of hepatokine hormone secreted from the liver, has been found to cause so-called 'exercise resistance,' which prevents physical exercise. Research results now reveal this as one of the reasons that ...
Mar 28, 2017
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