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Researchers assess impact of sleep apnea treatment on diabetes management

For adults with diabetes, managing the disease is a day-in, day-out effort to control the factors that affect blood sugar levels.

7 Jun 2018

Practicing with fake organs helps surgeon to perform complex cancer surgery

Anthony Camnetar remembers the first time he was told that he had von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.

7 Jun 2018

Collaborative research team seeks to collapse a tiny pocket between cardiac cells

A collaborative research team is on a quest to collapse a tiny pocket between cardiac cells that can cause big problems. Called the perinexus, the structure spans only tenths of a millimeter -- all the space it needs to disrupt a person's heartbeat.

7 Jun 2018

Mobile health technology has potential to transform prevention, management of heart disease

Mobile health technology has the potential to transform the way we prevent and manage heart disease, but there are unanswered questions about how to optimize this technology and maintain engagement with patients, according to a review of randomized clinical trials published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.

7 Jun 2018

Study finds high insurance denial rates for life-saving hepatitis C drugs in the U.S.

The number of insurance denials for life-saving hepatitis C drugs among patients with both private and public insurers remains high across the United States, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reported in a new study published in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

7 Jun 2018

Emergency physicians seek to correct myths, misinformation surrounding 'dry drowning'

Parents have been reading - and sharing - alarming reports of children who died or nearly died due to "dry drowning" over the past year. However, the use of that incorrect, nonmedical term has contributed to confusion about the true dangers of drowning in children and led to serious and fatal conditions being ignored after a "dry drowning" diagnosis was made, according to a special report in the June issue of Emergency Medicine News, published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

7 Jun 2018

Web-based salt education program helps reduce salt intake among children

Consuming excessive salt during childhood is associated with cardiovascular health risk factors, yet the effectiveness of education- and behavior-based strategies to lower salt usage among children has not been fully researched.

7 Jun 2018

Researchers urge medical community to take closer look at AFib burden

More than 2.5 million Americans are living with Atrial Fibrillation. AFib is an irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications.

7 Jun 2018

Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks linked to drug addiction behaviors

Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks during drug cue exposure, decision-making, inhibitory control, and social-emotional processing are associated with drug addiction behaviors, according to a systematic review of more than 100 published neuroimaging studies by experts at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published Wednesday, June 6 in the journal Neuron.

7 Jun 2018

Overload of zinc in muscles leads to cachexia in cancer patients

It's estimated that nearly one-third of all cancer deaths are caused not by the cancer itself but by cachexia - a debilitating muscle-wasting syndrome that affects an estimated 80 percent of advanced cancer patients. Cachexia is linked to reduced tolerance for cancer therapy, poor quality of life, and accelerated death, but there are no effective treatments and its cause is still largely unknown.

6 Jun 2018

Study findings may lead to new approaches for treating inflammatory diseases

In the body, the immune system often begins its response to various attackers in the same way: the body activates immune cells, so-called phagocytes, which migrate to sites of inflammation caused by, for example, foreign pathogens or damaged tissue.

6 Jun 2018

New cell-based technologies could help improve understanding of muscle-wasting disease

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed new cell-based technologies which could help improve understanding of the muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and test potential drugs for the disease.

6 Jun 2018

Depression in type-1 diabetes patients linked with higher levels of inflammatory protein

Depression in type-1 diabetes patients is associated with higher levels of the inflammatory protein galectin-3, according to research published in Endocrine Connections.

6 Jun 2018

Study: Maternal fatty acid balance critical for reducing obesity in children

The balance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in the tissues of female mammals, which previous research has suggested can impact the incidence of obesity in their offspring, appears to do so through its effect on the microbial population of the infant's gastrointestinal tract.

6 Jun 2018

Price check on drug ads: Would revealing costs help patients control spending?

President Donald Trump wants to control spending on drugs. One of his big ideas: include prices in advertisements, just like warnings about side effects.

6 Jun 2018

Classifying heart failure patients based on redox status may help personalize treatment

For more than six decades, oxidative stress has been linked to heart failure, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle that can lead to death. While antioxidant supplements such as vitamin C, vitamin B and beta-carotene have been widely used in heart failure, they often prove ineffective.

6 Jun 2018

Faeces donors do it out of willingness not money - study

Healthy adults who have a good constitution and have a healthy heart are being called forth to donate samples of their faeces to science. The donors would be screened rigorously before they can be included and would be compensated modestly for their donations say researchers.

6 Jun 2018

People with type 1 diabetes for decades show signs of mild drop in cognitive abilities

People who live with type 1 diabetes for very long duration show signs of mild decreases in cognitive abilities, primarily in memory, compared to those who don't have the disease, Joslin Diabetes Center researchers have shown.

5 Jun 2018

Patients diagnosed with high-sensitivity troponin test have lower risk of future heart attack

The newer high-sensitivity troponin test discovers smaller amounts of heart-specific proteins, troponins, than the older troponin test and thus identifies more myocardial infarction patients than before.

5 Jun 2018

New WHO Global Action Plan for Physical Activity holds potential to protect millions of people from NCDs

The NCD Alliance has welcomed More Active People for a Healthier World, the new WHO Global Action Plan for Physical Activity 2018-2030, launched today in Lisbon, saying it has the potential to prevent huge numbers of deaths and disability from noncommunicable diseases across the globe.

5 Jun 2018

Cardiology News and Research

Latest Cardiology News and Research

Researchers assess impact of sleep apnea treatment on diabetes management

Practicing with fake organs helps surgeon to perform complex cancer surgery

Collaborative research team seeks to collapse a tiny pocket between cardiac cells

Mobile health technology has potential to transform prevention, management of heart disease

Study finds high insurance denial rates for life-saving hepatitis C drugs in the U.S.

Emergency physicians seek to correct myths, misinformation surrounding 'dry drowning'

Web-based salt education program helps reduce salt intake among children

Researchers urge medical community to take closer look at AFib burden

Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks linked to drug addiction behaviors

Overload of zinc in muscles leads to cachexia in cancer patients

Study findings may lead to new approaches for treating inflammatory diseases

New cell-based technologies could help improve understanding of muscle-wasting disease

Depression in type-1 diabetes patients linked with higher levels of inflammatory protein

Study: Maternal fatty acid balance critical for reducing obesity in children

Price check on drug ads: Would revealing costs help patients control spending?

Classifying heart failure patients based on redox status may help personalize treatment

Faeces donors do it out of willingness not money - study

People with type 1 diabetes for decades show signs of mild drop in cognitive abilities

Patients diagnosed with high-sensitivity troponin test have lower risk of future heart attack

New WHO Global Action Plan for Physical Activity holds potential to protect millions of people from NCDs

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