By University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have addressed the prevalence and cost of critical care therapies provided in intensive care units (ICU) that were perceived by physicians as "futile."
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By University of California - Davis Health System
The degeneration of a small, wishbone-shaped structure deep inside the brain may provide the earliest clues to future cognitive decline, long before healthy older people exhibit clinical symptoms of memory loss or dementia.
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By Boston Children's Hospital
Employing a unique quality improvement methodology, physicians have demonstrated that chest pain in children, rarely caused by heart disease, can be effectively evaluated in the ambulatory setting using minimal resources, even across a diverse patient pop
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By European Lung Foundation
Researchers have developed a new strategy for prescribing antibiotics that could reduce patient harm and help combat the rise in antibiotic resistance.
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By Nationwide Children's Hospital
Studies of a therapy designed to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) suggest that the treatment dramatically slows onset and progression of the deadly disease, one of the most common neuromuscular disorders in the world. The researchers found a surv
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By Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University
A little STING could go a long way in helping treat or even avoid autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, Type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, researchers report.
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By New York University
Researchers have developed a synthetic molecule, "protein domain mimetic," which targets the interaction between two proteins at the point where intracellular signaling cascade converges resulting in an up-regulation of genes that promote tumor
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By University Health Network
Clinical researchers have discovered why multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow, persistently escapes cure by an initially effective treatment that can keep the disease at bay for up to several years.
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By Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO)
Mutations in a specific gene has been found consistently in regulatory elements at early development stages of urinary bladder tumors, suggesting the analysis of this gene in urine samples may be a diagnostic marker for this type of tumor.
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By St. Michael's Hospital
According to a recently published ten-year study, men are more likely to develop a physical illness than women.
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By Rice University
Scientists are placing bismuth in nanotubes to tag stem cells for efficient tracking with CT scanners.
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By BMJ-British Medical Journal
A political drive, led by the UK and US, to screen older people for minor memory changes (often called mild cognitive impairment or pre-dementia) is leading to unnecessary investigation and potentially harmful treatment for what is arguably an inevitable
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By European Lung Foundation
An electronic decision support tool has helped to reduce deaths from pneumonia in four hospital emergency departments.
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By University of Edinburgh
Women with ectopic pregnancies could be spared surgery if they are treated with a lung cancer drug, a study suggests. Researchers treated ectopic pregnancies -- where an embryo implants inside the Fallopian tube -- by combining an existing treatment with
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By University of California - Irvine
By studying how memories are made, neurobiologists created new, specific memories by direct manipulation of the brain, which could prove key to understanding and potentially resolving learning and memory disorders.
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By American Chemical Society (ACS)
The first study under realistic field conditions has found reassuringly low levels of chemicals from pharmaceuticals and personal care products in crops irrigated with recycled sewage water, scientists have reported.
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By American Medical Association (AMA)
Undervaccination with the diptheria, tetanus toxoids and acelluar pertussis (DTaP) vaccine appears to be associated with an increased risk of pertussis (whooping cough) in children 3 to 36 months of age, according to a new study.
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By Yale University
Researchers have discovered a protein that is the missing link in the complicated chain of events that lead to Alzheimer's disease, they report in the Sept. 4 issue of the journal Neuron. Researchers also found that blocking the protein with an existing d
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By American Chemical Society (ACS)
The vision for a new branch of medicine, inspired by the ancient field that began with peg legs and hand hooks has been named “molecular prosthetics.” Scientists have described advances toward making molecular prosthetics a reality, in
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By University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Researchers have discovered that transplanting stem cells into the rat brain -- into a center called the hippocampus -- restored functions that are abnormal in schizophrenia.
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