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Cardiac arrest patients resuscitated with new breathing tube more likely to survive, finds study

When paramedics resuscitated cardiac arrest patients with a new type of breathing tube, their patients were more likely to survive, according to a University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston-led study in today's JAMA.

29 Aug 2018

Scientists develop three-pronged model to predict ARDS in burn patients

For the first time, researchers have devised a model to predict burn patients who are most likely to develop life-threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome.

28 Aug 2018

Scientists introduce bioinspired enzyme model with redox switch

Coupled oxygen transfer and electron transfer reactions that use cofactors are enzymatic reactions of crucial significance to all lifeforms from bacteria to vertebrates. In the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, scientists have introduced a model for the enzyme sulfite oxidase.

28 Aug 2018

Neanderthals could have died out due to climate change

It has been long speculated that humans or Homo sapiens are the reason why Neanderthals are extinct. A new study that was published this week has negated this idea stating that it could be climate change that wiped out the Neanderthals and not humans.

27 Aug 2018

Drug overdose continues to be a significant cause of death in Australia

A new report has come up with alarming numbers of deaths due to drug overdose among Australians. The report states that common sedatives and sleeping pills may be responsible for over 142 deaths each month due to their overdose.

27 Aug 2018

$Study: Microvascular dysfunction can be major cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction$

Study: Microvascular dysfunction can be major cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Microvascular dysfunction, or small vessel disease, can be an important cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (preserved pumping capacity), an international team including researchers from Karolinska Institutet and AstraZeneca report in a study published in The European Heart Journal.

27 Aug 2018

Additional inhibitor could be key to helping anti-VEGF therapies overcome resistance in glioblastoma

Adding another inhibitor to therapies that cut off a tumor's access to blood vessels could be the key to helping those therapies overcome resistance in glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

27 Aug 2018

Antiplatelet monotherapy appears to be safer but does not reduce risk of heart attack

Long-term antiplatelet monotherapy after stenting is safe but does not reduce the risk of death or heart attack compared to standard dual antiplatelet therapy, according to late breaking results from the GLOBAL LEADERS trial presented today in a Hot Line Session at ESC Congress 2018 and published in The Lancet.

27 Aug 2018

Discovery will allow scientists to target hypoxia in cancer

Researchers have discovered a new GPCR that will allow them to target hypoxia in cancer, offering a new, less harmful treatment for patients.

27 Aug 2018

Researchers investigate ability of Masimo Ori to show oxygenation trends during moderate hyperoxia

Masimo announced today the findings of a study recently published in Anesthesia & Analgesia in which researchers at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Ghent University, Belgium, investigated the ability of Masimo ORi to show trends in oxygenation in the moderate hyperoxic region.

27 Aug 2018

Oxygen therapy does not prevent development of heart failure in patients with heart attack

Oxygen therapy does not prevent the development of heart failure. Neither does it reduce the long-term risk of dying for patients with suspected heart attack.

27 Aug 2018

New guidelines help decide if open heart surgery or stent is better after heart attack

New advice on the choice between open heart surgery and inserting a stent via a catheter after a heart attack is launched today.

25 Aug 2018

New guidance helps clear up confusion over how to diagnose heart attack

Confusion over how to diagnose a heart attack is set to be cleared up with new guidance launched today. The 2018 Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction is published online in European Heart Journal, and on the ESC website.

25 Aug 2018

Researchers design nanotubes that can align water molecules into a square rod

First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod.

25 Aug 2018

Surgeons test new device that keeps the liver warm and circulates blood during transport

Since the first liver transplant in 1963, donated livers have been immersed in an icy cold fluid in a cold storage system for transport, similar in principle to ice chests used for picnics and trips to the beach.

25 Aug 2018

Cardio exercise and strength training have diverse effects on hormones

Every day a lot of people cycle to and from work or visit the gym to lift heavy weights. Regardless of the form of training they choose, almost everyone does it to improve their health. But we actually know surprisingly little about exactly how different forms of training affect our health.

24 Aug 2018

Researchers take major step in eliminating cancer without harming healthy tissue

A major advance towards targeting cancer without harming healthy tissue has been discovered by University of Bristol researchers.

24 Aug 2018

UAB receives NIH grant to continue evaluation of new medication for IPF

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health totaling $8.9 million to fund a multiyear program evaluating the role of a new medication in a clinical trial for patients suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

24 Aug 2018

A late-life surprise: Taking care of frail, aging parents

"This won't go on for very long," Sharon Hall said to herself when she invited her elderly mother, who'd suffered several small strokes, to live with her.

23 Aug 2018

Scientists work towards solving mystery of incurable blood diseases

Scientists may be on the road to solving the mystery of a group of mostly incurable blood diseases called myelodysplastic syndromes, which cause people to have immature, malfunctioning bone marrow cells that fuel a diverse set of health problems and can lead to leukemia.

23 Aug 2018

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Cardiac arrest patients resuscitated with new breathing tube more likely to survive, finds study

Scientists develop three-pronged model to predict ARDS in burn patients

Scientists introduce bioinspired enzyme model with redox switch

Neanderthals could have died out due to climate change

Drug overdose continues to be a significant cause of death in Australia

Study: Microvascular dysfunction can be major cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Additional inhibitor could be key to helping anti-VEGF therapies overcome resistance in glioblastoma

Antiplatelet monotherapy appears to be safer but does not reduce risk of heart attack

Discovery will allow scientists to target hypoxia in cancer

Researchers investigate ability of Masimo Ori to show oxygenation trends during moderate hyperoxia

Oxygen therapy does not prevent development of heart failure in patients with heart attack

New guidelines help decide if open heart surgery or stent is better after heart attack

New guidance helps clear up confusion over how to diagnose heart attack

Researchers design nanotubes that can align water molecules into a square rod

Surgeons test new device that keeps the liver warm and circulates blood during transport

Cardio exercise and strength training have diverse effects on hormones

Researchers take major step in eliminating cancer without harming healthy tissue

UAB receives NIH grant to continue evaluation of new medication for IPF

A late-life surprise: Taking care of frail, aging parents

Scientists work towards solving mystery of incurable blood diseases

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