Medical research
Pause paunch and halt hair loss
A new discovery showing how hair growth activated fat tissue growth in the skin below the hair follicle could lead to the development of a cream to dissolve fat.
Apr 1, 2014
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Medical research
Does cell therapy treatment prolong the lives of heart attack patients?
One of the world's largest clinical cell therapy trials has begun to enroll 3,000 heart attack patients, some of whom will have bone marrow cells extracted with a needle from their hip and fed into their heart using a catheter ...
Feb 28, 2014
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Cardiology
Help for a scarred heart: Scarring cells turned to beating muscle
Poets and physicians know that a scarred heart cannot beat the way it used to, but the science of reprogramming cells offers hope—for the physical heart, at least.
Feb 12, 2014
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Medical research
Filling me softly: New study shows implant stiffness is a major cause of foreign body reactions
Surgical implants are widely used in modern medicine but their effectiveness is often compromised by how our bodies react to them. Now, scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that implant stiffness is a ...
Feb 12, 2014
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Surgery
Clinical trial shows 'stress shield' device reduces appearance of revised scars
A small clinical trial of a device invented by researchers at the School of Medicine has shown that it can help reduce the size of existing scars when used after scar-revision surgery.
Feb 10, 2014
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Cardiology
Study shows potential usefulness of non-invasive measure of heart tissue scarring
Scarring of tissue in the upper chamber of the heart (atrium) was associated with recurrent rhythm disorder after treatment, according to a study in the February 5 issue of JAMA.
Feb 4, 2014
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Cardiology
MRIs help predict which atrial fibrillation patients will benefit from catheter ablation
A new type of contrast MRI can predict which heart patients with atrial fibrillation are most likely to benefit from a treatment called catheter ablation, according to a landmark multi-center study published in the Journal ...
Feb 4, 2014
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Medical research
Study finds axon regeneration after Schwann cell graft to injured spinal cord
A study carried out at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine for "The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis" has found that transplanting self-donated Schwann cells (SCs, the principal ensheathing cells of the nervous ...
Dec 23, 2013
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Medications
FDA approves first drug for rare erection disorder
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat an unusual condition that causes painful, curved erections in men.
Dec 6, 2013
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Cardiology
Bone marrow mononuclear stem cells show no new gains in heart function, says TIME study
New data reported by the Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network (CCTRN) at the 2013 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association in Dallas showed that the use of bone marrow mononuclear stem cells (BMCs) did ...
Nov 18, 2013
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