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Scientists develop new technology to better study liver transplantation in pre-clinical setting

A team of scientists, physicians, and engineers from the Center for Engineering in Medicine and the Transplant Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA reported the development of a new technology that enables researchers to better study liver transplantation in a pre-clinical setting.

29 Nov 2017

NICE releases the latest asthma management standards

In 2016 in England and Wales alone, a shocking 1,237 people died from an asthma attack2.

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More doctors in the U.S. now focus on nursing home care, study finds

The number of doctors and advance practitioners in the United States who focus on nursing home care rose by more than a third between 2012 and 2015, according to a new study published today in JAMA from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

29 Nov 2017

Older adults do not get enough help to make sure multiple drugs mix safely, new poll finds

Most older Americans take multiple medicines every day. But a new poll suggests they don't get – or seek – enough help to make sure those medicines actually mix safely.

29 Nov 2017

UT Southwestern researchers take early step toward personalized care for breast cancer

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have developed a method to map protein changes that occur in different subtypes of breast cancer cells in response to DNA damage from a new class of chemotherapy drugs.

29 Nov 2017

Patients rate physicians less positively if they have their requests denied

People who ask their doctors for specialist referrals and certain tests or medications, but then don’t receive them, tend to report less satisfaction with their doctors than people who have their requests fulfilled, research shows.

29 Nov 2017

Teaching teens the perils of pot as marketplace grows

After Yarly Raygoza attended the drug prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club here last year, she used what she learned to talk a few friends out of using marijuana.

29 Nov 2017

Doctors make big money testing urine for drugs, then ignore abnormal results

In April 2014, state and federal drug agents raided Jeffrey Campbell's medical clinic in Jeffersonville, Ind. Police cars blocked the parking lot as bewildered patients scattered and the agents carted off boxes of records from the doctor's office.

29 Nov 2017

Powerful digital model replicates biological activity that precedes sudden cardiac death

Some heart disease patients face a higher risk of sudden cardiac death, which can happen when an arrhythmia -- an irregular heartbeat-- disrupts the normal electrical activity in the heart and causes the organ to stop pumping.

29 Nov 2017

New pluripotent stem cell technology provides insights into neuropsychiatric disorders

Studying the genetic code allows researchers to know whether some patients with neuropsychiatric disorders either have extra copies of the CHRNA7 gene or are missing copies. However, little was known about the functional consequences of this genetic imbalance in brain cells.

29 Nov 2017

New strategy offers therapeutic alternative to prevent excessive clotting in kidney disease patients

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have discovered a potential treatment target to prevent chronic kidney disease patients from developing blood clots without causing bleeding complications - an unwanted and perplexing side effect.

29 Nov 2017

USC researchers propose rules for making ribs

Scientists from the USC Stem Cell lab of Francesca Mariani recently shared a recipe for ribs, and it doesn't even require barbecue sauce.

29 Nov 2017

Pediatric submersion score helps identify children at low risk for submersion-related injury

A risk score can identify children at low risk for submersion-related injury who can be safely discharged from the ED after observation.

29 Nov 2017

CGMs may help minimize burden of hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes

Continuous glucose monitors can protect individuals who have had type 1 diabetes for years and are at risk of experiencing dangerously low blood sugar by increasing their awareness of the symptoms, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

29 Nov 2017

Study takes deeper look on outcomes of cardiac arrest patients with supraglottic airways

With the adjustment of postresuscitation variables, as well as prehospital and resuscitation variables, the prehospital use of supraglottic airway (SGA) is associated with good neurologic outcome in cardiac arrest victims, particularly in those who receive CPR.

29 Nov 2017

Immediate ART treatment following HIV diagnosis increases retention in care, study suggests

Starting antiretroviral therapy immediately following an HIV diagnosis dramatically improves retention in clinical HIV care, according to a study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher.

29 Nov 2017

Study provides potential explanation for increased prevalence of asthma in adult women

In childhood, asthma is more common in boys than girls. But around the time of puberty, that picture reverses. By midlife women are twice as likely as men to have asthma.

29 Nov 2017

Prenatal maternal stress affects size of the baby, study finds

A new study has been published that suggests babies are physically affected by the stress level of their mother during pregnancy. It has been previously found that adversity in the womb enhances or hampers offspring development and performance.

29 Nov 2017

HCI researchers observe how breast cancer tumors evolve over time

A new study by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah observed how breast cancer tumors evolve over time and demonstrated how changes within tumors may contribute to the process by which cancers no longer respond to treatment.

29 Nov 2017

Synthetic cannabis-like drug found to be safe and effective in treating sleep apnea

A synthetic cannabis-like drug in a pill was safe and effective in treating obstructive sleep apnea in the first large multi-site study of a drug for apnea funded by the National Institutes of Health. The study was conducted at Northwestern Medicine and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

28 Nov 2017

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Scientists develop new technology to better study liver transplantation in pre-clinical setting

NICE releases the latest asthma management standards

More doctors in the U.S. now focus on nursing home care, study finds

Older adults do not get enough help to make sure multiple drugs mix safely, new poll finds

UT Southwestern researchers take early step toward personalized care for breast cancer

Patients rate physicians less positively if they have their requests denied

Teaching teens the perils of pot as marketplace grows

Doctors make big money testing urine for drugs, then ignore abnormal results

Powerful digital model replicates biological activity that precedes sudden cardiac death

New pluripotent stem cell technology provides insights into neuropsychiatric disorders

New strategy offers therapeutic alternative to prevent excessive clotting in kidney disease patients

USC researchers propose rules for making ribs

Pediatric submersion score helps identify children at low risk for submersion-related injury

CGMs may help minimize burden of hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes

Study takes deeper look on outcomes of cardiac arrest patients with supraglottic airways

Immediate ART treatment following HIV diagnosis increases retention in care, study suggests

Study provides potential explanation for increased prevalence of asthma in adult women

Prenatal maternal stress affects size of the baby, study finds

HCI researchers observe how breast cancer tumors evolve over time

Synthetic cannabis-like drug found to be safe and effective in treating sleep apnea

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