The osteoporosis drug alendronate was linked with a reduced risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke in a Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study of patients with hip fractures. The association was seen for ...
May 11, 2018
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Clinical trials of new anti-cancer therapies have often excluded patients whose disease has spread to the brain or central nervous system (CNS) or, if such patients were allowed on trial, trials have often failed to clearly ...
Dec 30, 2017
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(HealthDay)—When applying evidence-based recommendations for mechanical ventilation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), clinicians should be aware of the mechanisms of ventilator-induced lung injury ...
Nov 1, 2017
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When children develop kidney disease, it can play out in dramatically different ways. They can experience relatively mild disorders that respond to existing treatments and only impact their lives for the short term. Children ...
Sep 27, 2017
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Research conducted by a team of Norton Thoracic Institute scientists on a novel therapeutic avenue for an aggressive and difficult to treat subgroup of lung cancer was published in the August 15, 2017 issue of Cancer Research. ...
Aug 16, 2017
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The chemotherapy docetaxel is widely accepted as a standard therapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. But 10-20 percent of patients will have adverse side effects that force discontinuation of treatment. ...
Aug 5, 2017
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Testing blood samples within the first two hours of injury could help predict which critically injured patients are more likely to develop multiple organ failure, according to an early study led by Queen Mary University of ...
Jul 17, 2017
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is commonly thought of as a movement disorder, but after years of living with PD approximately twenty five percent of patients also experience deficits in cognition that impair function. A newly developed ...
Jun 20, 2017
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Twenty-one of the world's leading pharmacologists have urged drugs companies and governments to help change the way that medication is dosed by signing up to a 'roadmap for change'.
Apr 26, 2017
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A little over a year ago, the NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins and the Director of NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, Dr. Janine Clayton expressed their concern about the stark imbalance in the sex of animals used ...
Oct 30, 2015
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