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Existing CT scans estimate hardened fatty plaque deposits in the heart's largest blood vessels

Instead of special heart scans, physicians can use images of the chest captured months earlier, and for other reasons, to estimate patients' risk of heart attack or death during several kinds of major surgeries, a new study shows.

2 Mar 2023

Radar sensor can be used to predict fall accidents and cognitive illnesses

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method for predicting fall accidents and cognitive illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease by reading a person's walking pattern with the aid of a radar sensor.

2 Mar 2023

New research could greatly improve the quality of life for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from happening, according to new research from UTHealth Houston.

2 Mar 2023

Epigenetic changes in the regulation of key stress gene detected in kids with abusive injuries

Epigenetic changes in the regulation of a key gene in the body's stress response system were detected in babies and young children with abusive injuries, as opposed to accidental, according to a pilot study published in the journal Pediatric Research.

2 Mar 2023

Study examines parental concerns of their sexual and gender minority adolescents using PrEP

Since its approval in 2012, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, has shown promise in reducing HIV infection rates by preventing infection in high-risk HIV-negative people.

2 Mar 2023

Eighth annual Make March Matter campaign launched by CHLA

Children's Hospital Los Angeles launched its eighth annual Make March Matter campaign Wednesday. Academy Award nominated actress, author, advocate and longtime CHLA supporter Jamie Lee Curtis joined the hospital to kick off the campaign.

2 Mar 2023

A journey back to wellness after three kidney transplants and weight gain

Rowena Roque, 46, was having a problem that many people can relate to: doing everything in her power to lose weight and get healthy but never succeeding.

2 Mar 2023

Resistance exercise improves sleep and inflammatory status in sarcopenic older patients

Sarcopenia is the decline of skeletal muscle mass with age, leading to loss of muscle strength (to move objects, shake hands etc.) and performance (walking and making other routine movements effectively). It involves chronic inflammation and is associated with cognitive alterations, heart disease and respiratory disorders.

2 Mar 2023

Reprogrammed tumor cells could teach the body's immune system to fight cancer

Some cities fight gangs with ex-members who educate kids and starve gangs of new recruits. Stanford Medicine researchers have done something similar with cancer — altering cancer cells so that they teach the body's immune system to fight the very cancer the cells came from.

2 Mar 2023

Toolkit for treating obstetric hemorrhage saves lives, lowers health care costs

Measures used at California hospitals to stop excessive bleeding in childbirth are saving an average of almost $18 per birth, for statewide annual health care savings of $9 million, according to new research by scientists at Stanford Medicine and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.

2 Mar 2023

Youth overweight increases risk for blood clots later in life

Being overweight in childhood and in early adulthood are discrete risk factors for blood clots later in life, a University of Gothenburg study shows.

2 Mar 2023

Obesity level affects the prevalence of diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia in men and women differently

Obesity continues to become more common worldwide, despite the health risks and increased mortality posed by the diseases and conditions that accompany it (comorbidities).

2 Mar 2023

Study reveals a new pathway for how children and adults develop cardiomyopathy

Researchers have discovered how a gene that increases the risk of developing genetic heart disease functions, paving the way for new treatments.

2 Mar 2023

Regular physical activity associated with better mental health in adolescents

Regular physical activity can improve adolescents' mental health and help with behavioral difficulties, research suggests.

2 Mar 2023

Sleeping too little or too much may increase the risk of infection

A good night's sleep can solve all sorts of problems – but scientists have now discovered new evidence that sleeping well may make you less vulnerable to infection.

2 Mar 2023

Study unveils new insights into the importance of early-life factors on lung health

New insights into the importance of early-life factors on lung health have been unveiled in the most comprehensive study of its kind, led by the Universities of Essex and Bristol.

2 Mar 2023

Neutral or awkward behavior of mothers with infants linked to an epigenetic change in children

Adding evidence to the importance of early development, a new study links neutral maternal behavior toward infants with an epigenetic change in children related to stress response.

2 Mar 2023

Watch: Dental device at center of lawsuits was used on patients without FDA review

An unproven and unregulated dental device at the center of patient lawsuits has not been evaluated by the FDA, according to a months-long joint investigation by KHN and CBS News.

2 Mar 2023

Study finds higher mortality rate among Black men after elective surgery

Black men have a higher death rate within 30 days of surgery compared with any other subgroup of race and sex, finds a study of adults in the United States published in The BMJ.

2 Mar 2023

Wastewater-based monitoring is effective in detecting viral outbreaks in schools

Schools are among the most notable settings people associate with picking up viral infections such as the common cold, various types of the flu or other respiratory viruses.

2 Mar 2023

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Existing CT scans estimate hardened fatty plaque deposits in the heart's largest blood vessels

Radar sensor can be used to predict fall accidents and cognitive illnesses

New research could greatly improve the quality of life for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Epigenetic changes in the regulation of key stress gene detected in kids with abusive injuries

Study examines parental concerns of their sexual and gender minority adolescents using PrEP

Eighth annual Make March Matter campaign launched by CHLA

A journey back to wellness after three kidney transplants and weight gain

Resistance exercise improves sleep and inflammatory status in sarcopenic older patients

Reprogrammed tumor cells could teach the body's immune system to fight cancer

Toolkit for treating obstetric hemorrhage saves lives, lowers health care costs

Youth overweight increases risk for blood clots later in life

Obesity level affects the prevalence of diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia in men and women differently

Study reveals a new pathway for how children and adults develop cardiomyopathy

Regular physical activity associated with better mental health in adolescents

Sleeping too little or too much may increase the risk of infection

Study unveils new insights into the importance of early-life factors on lung health

Neutral or awkward behavior of mothers with infants linked to an epigenetic change in children

Watch: Dental device at center of lawsuits was used on patients without FDA review

Study finds higher mortality rate among Black men after elective surgery

Wastewater-based monitoring is effective in detecting viral outbreaks in schools

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