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Study suggests that stiff arteries alone enough to cause high BP in "virtual human"

High blood pressure is highly age-related and affects more than 1 billion people worldwide. But doctors can't fully explain the cause of 90 per cent of all cases. A computer model of a "virtual human" suggests that stiff arteries alone are enough to cause high blood pressure.

27 May 2014

Nationwide Insurance Foundation donates $10M to Nationwide Children's Hospital

Nationwide Children's Hospital today announced that it has received a $10 million gift from the Nationwide Insurance Foundation.

27 May 2014

Wolters Kluwer Health launches UpToDate Anywhere mobile app in the UK

Today, Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today the UK launch of UpToDate® Anywhere, enabling hospitals and healthcare organisations to provide clinicians with access to its acclaimed clinical decision support resource anytime, anywhere via mobile app and electronic patient record (EPR).

27 May 2014

Health Ethics Australia aims at improving literacy, compassion around death

Knowledge and information empowers people facing a terminal diagnosis or end of life, delegates heard at the National Medicines Symposium in Brisbane last week.

27 May 2014

Study gives hints about male versus female risk for certain psychiatric disorders

Puberty is the defining process of adolescent development, beginning a cascade of changes throughout the body, including the brain.

27 May 2014

Estrogen therapy and venlafaxine treatment effective for hot flashes, night sweats

A new research study from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) that compares low-dose oral estrogen and low-dose non-hormonal venlafaxine hydrochloride extended release (XR) to placebo were both found effective in reducing the number of hot flashes and night sweats reported by menopausal women.

27 May 2014

Study shows positive effects of using hypertonic saline on infants with bronchiolitis

A team of researchers, led by physicians from Children's Hospital Los Angeles, have found that infants with bronchiolitis who were treated with inhaled hypertonic saline in the emergency department (ED) were less likely to require admission to the hospital compared to infants treated with normal saline.

26 May 2014

Research to better understand cell defect that contributes to cancer

A research team from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has received funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for research to better understand a cell defect that contributes to diseases such as cancer.

26 May 2014

International study provides hope to patients with advanced prostate cancer

An international study carried out with involvement of the MedUni Vienna is giving hope to patients with advanced prostate cancer. In just a few years' time, Ipilumumab could be approved as a treatment for the world's third-most common type of cancer.

26 May 2014

Study reveals high demand for costly cancer treatment among refugees from Iraq, Syria

A study published in The Lancet Oncology journal reveals a high demand for costly cancer treatment among refugees from the recent conflicts in Iraq and Syria, with host countries struggling to find the money and the medicine to treat their new patients.

26 May 2014

Peptide antibodies hit immune-response-stifling MDSCs without harming other vital cells

Scientists have found a way to target elusive cells that suppress immune response, depleting them with peptides that spare other important cells and shrink tumors in preclinical experiments, according to a paper published online by Nature Medicine.

26 May 2014

Researchers discover signaling pathway in cancer cells that invades nearby tissues

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls their ability to invade nearby tissues in a finely orchestrated manner.

26 May 2014

Researchers identify mutated gene common to rare form of pancreatic cancer

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a mutated gene common to adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) tumors - the first known unique molecular signature for this rare, but particularly virulent, form of pancreatic cancer.

26 May 2014

Study: Sufficient copies of SMN1 gene extend survival in animals with spinal muscular atrophy

To make up for insufficient amounts of SMN protein, the cause of the inherited neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), researchers have successfully delivered a replacement SMN1 gene directly to the spinal cords of animal models of SMA.

23 May 2014

Longer looks: How doctors treat patients; myths about Obamacare; curing cancer

Many years ago I spent a lunch hour in a doctors' dining room eavesdropping on two white-coated men of a certain age idly discussing a colleague who worked at the city hospital next door.

23 May 2014

Research reveals pattern of neurocognitive risks in children with cochlear implants

Children with profound deafness who receive a cochlear implant had as much as five times the risk of having delays in areas of working memory, controlled attention, planning and conceptual learning as children with normal hearing, according to Indiana University research published May 22 in the Journal of the American Medical Association Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery.

23 May 2014

Immucor's PreciseType HEA test receives FDA approval to predict blood compatibility

Immucor, Inc., a global leader in transfusion and transplantation diagnostics, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the company's PreciseType HEA test.

23 May 2014

Viewpoints: It's past time to move on VA's problems; administration should report new health law numbers

When America sends men and women to fight, it owes them an enduring debt, starting with competent and timely health care and disability benefits when they leave active duty. President Obama expressed outrage on Wednesday at recent charges of wrongdoing in the Department of Veterans Affairs' health care system.

23 May 2014

EMA's CHMP gives positive opinion for PTC Therapeutics' Translarna

PTC Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that following its request for re-examination, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a positive opinion regarding the company's application for a conditional marketing authorization of Translarna (ataluren) for the treatment of nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy (nmDMD) in ambulatory patients aged five years and older.

23 May 2014

Researchers identify chemical signals that promote breast cancer metastasis

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have identified chemical signals that certain breast cancers use to recruit two types of normal cells needed for the cancers' spread.

23 May 2014

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Study suggests that stiff arteries alone enough to cause high BP in "virtual human"

Nationwide Insurance Foundation donates $10M to Nationwide Children's Hospital

Wolters Kluwer Health launches UpToDate Anywhere mobile app in the UK

Health Ethics Australia aims at improving literacy, compassion around death

Study gives hints about male versus female risk for certain psychiatric disorders

Estrogen therapy and venlafaxine treatment effective for hot flashes, night sweats

Study shows positive effects of using hypertonic saline on infants with bronchiolitis

Research to better understand cell defect that contributes to cancer

International study provides hope to patients with advanced prostate cancer

Study reveals high demand for costly cancer treatment among refugees from Iraq, Syria

Peptide antibodies hit immune-response-stifling MDSCs without harming other vital cells

Researchers discover signaling pathway in cancer cells that invades nearby tissues

Researchers identify mutated gene common to rare form of pancreatic cancer

Study: Sufficient copies of SMN1 gene extend survival in animals with spinal muscular atrophy

Longer looks: How doctors treat patients; myths about Obamacare; curing cancer

Research reveals pattern of neurocognitive risks in children with cochlear implants

Immucor's PreciseType HEA test receives FDA approval to predict blood compatibility

Viewpoints: It's past time to move on VA's problems; administration should report new health law numbers

EMA's CHMP gives positive opinion for PTC Therapeutics' Translarna

Researchers identify chemical signals that promote breast cancer metastasis

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