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When it comes to shedding pounds, it pays to think big

When it comes to shedding pounds, it pays to think big, according to new research by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

14 Aug 2018

NIH grant for Mount Sinai to study use of inhaled corticosteroids for treatment of sickle cell disease

The Departments of Emergency Medicine and Hematology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health toward further study of inhaled corticosteroids to treat sickle cell disease in individuals who do not have asthma.

14 Aug 2018

Keck Medicine of USC's hospitals ranked among nation's best for the 10th consecutive year

For the 10th consecutive year, Keck Medicine of USC's hospitals have been ranked among the country's Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.

14 Aug 2018

Mono-antiplatelet therapy after aortic heart valve replacements may work as well as two drugs

Current treatment guidelines say patients who undergo minimally invasive aortic heart valve replacements should receive two antiplatelet drugs to reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots.

14 Aug 2018

New method provides a 'big picture' of genetic influences on traits and diseases

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a powerful method for characterizing the broad patterns of genetic contributions to traits and diseases. The new method provides a "big picture" of genetic influences that should be particularly helpful in designing future genetic studies and understanding potential for genetic risk prediction.

14 Aug 2018

Switching anti-psychotic drugs in first-episode schizophrenia patients does not improve clinical outcomes

Switching anti-psychotic medications does not improve clinical outcomes in patients with first-episode schizophrenia who haven't responded to treatment, Mount Sinai researchers have shown for the first time.

14 Aug 2018

Neural stem cells are the key to tail regeneration

Cut off a salamander's tail and, in a few weeks, a near-perfect replacement grows. Do the same to a lizard and a new tail will regrow, but it won't be the same as the original. By comparing tail regeneration between the two animals, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that stem cells in the spinal cord are the ultimate limiting factor.

14 Aug 2018

University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center launches new CAR-T therapy trial

University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center launched a new clinical trial for CAR-T, joining a select group of hospitals offering the therapy and a smaller group of hospitals manufacturing the CAR-T cells.

14 Aug 2018

Rethinking fundamental rule of stroke care: 'Time is brain!'

In 1993, neurologist Camilo R. Gomez, MD, coined a phrase that for a quarter century has been a fundamental rule of stroke care: "Time is brain!"

14 Aug 2018

OncoThira and NDSU enter into license agreement to develop, market cancer compounds

The NDSU Research Foundation and OncoThira have entered into a license agreement involving technology developed at North Dakota State University.

14 Aug 2018

Google's DeepMind AI could soon be diagnosing eye conditions

London-based DeepMind which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is coming up with Artificial Intelligence based devices that can help diagnose eye conditions accurately.

14 Aug 2018

AI platform identifies acute neurological illnesses faster than human diagnosis

An artificial intelligence platform designed to identify a broad range of acute neurological illnesses, such as stroke, hemorrhage, and hydrocephalus, was shown to identify disease in CT scans in 1.2 seconds, faster than human diagnosis, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published today in the journal Nature Medicine.

14 Aug 2018

Simple score helps predict which hospitalized heart attack patients are at high risk of readmissions

Tracking just seven factors of heart attack patients when they are first admitted to the hospital can help flag those most at risk for 30-day readmission, researchers from UT Southwestern found.

13 Aug 2018

New genome analysis could identify people at higher risk of common deadly diseases

A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School reports a new kind of genome analysis that could identify large fractions of the population who have a much higher risk of developing serious common diseases, including coronary artery disease, breast cancer, or type 2 diabetes.

13 Aug 2018

New test predicts the risk of serious disease months before symptoms appear

Researchers have developed a new genetic test that can identify people who are at an increased risk of serious disease, long before they develop any symptoms.

13 Aug 2018

Researchers find link between common 'harmless' virus and cardiovascular damage

Researchers from Brighton and Sussex Medical School have found an unexpectedly close link between a herpes virus and the occurrence of immune cells damaging cardiovascular tissue.

13 Aug 2018

Lighter sedation fails to reduce risk of postoperative delirium in older patients

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say a study designed to see if reducing the amount of anesthesia reduces the risk of postoperative delirium in older patients surprisingly found that lighter sedation failed to do so in severely ill people undergoing hip fracture repair.

13 Aug 2018

Grip strength of children predicts future cardiometabolic health

While other studies have shown that muscle weakness as measured by grip strength is a predictor of unhealthy outcomes -- including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, disability and even early mortality -- this is the first to do so for adolescent health over time, a Baylor University researcher said.

13 Aug 2018

Researchers discover epigenetic mechanism underlying ischemic cardiomyopathy

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have shed light on an epigenetic reprogramming mechanism that underlies the development of ischemic cardiomyopathy.

13 Aug 2018

Advances in treating hep C lead to new option for transplant patients

After her kidneys failed from the same illness that took the lives of her mother and brother, Anne Rupp went on dialysis in May 2016, spending three hours a day, three times a week undergoing the blood-cleaning procedure. She hated it.

13 Aug 2018

Heart Disease News and Research

Latest Heart Disease News and Research

When it comes to shedding pounds, it pays to think big

NIH grant for Mount Sinai to study use of inhaled corticosteroids for treatment of sickle cell disease

Keck Medicine of USC's hospitals ranked among nation's best for the 10th consecutive year

Mono-antiplatelet therapy after aortic heart valve replacements may work as well as two drugs

New method provides a 'big picture' of genetic influences on traits and diseases

Switching anti-psychotic drugs in first-episode schizophrenia patients does not improve clinical outcomes

Neural stem cells are the key to tail regeneration

University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center launches new CAR-T therapy trial

Rethinking fundamental rule of stroke care: 'Time is brain!'

OncoThira and NDSU enter into license agreement to develop, market cancer compounds

Google's DeepMind AI could soon be diagnosing eye conditions

AI platform identifies acute neurological illnesses faster than human diagnosis

Simple score helps predict which hospitalized heart attack patients are at high risk of readmissions

New genome analysis could identify people at higher risk of common deadly diseases

New test predicts the risk of serious disease months before symptoms appear

Researchers find link between common 'harmless' virus and cardiovascular damage

Lighter sedation fails to reduce risk of postoperative delirium in older patients

Grip strength of children predicts future cardiometabolic health

Researchers discover epigenetic mechanism underlying ischemic cardiomyopathy

Advances in treating hep C lead to new option for transplant patients

Advances in cardiometabolic research and clinical trial design eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Heart Disease News and Research

Latest Heart Disease News and Research

Advances in cardiometabolic research and clinical trial design eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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