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Hurricane and flood handbook provides tips on how to prepare before the storm

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins June 1 and runs for six months, is expected to have a near-average number of storms.

26 Aug 2017

Hospital enables young patients with cerebral palsy, disabilities to take part in therapeutic riding program

The Adaptive Sports Academy at Hospital for Special Surgery's Lerner Children's Pavilion is enabling young patients with cerebral palsy or another physical challenge to participate in activities they never dreamed possible.

26 Aug 2017

SLU-led project receives NIH funding for clinical trial on potential treatment for MDR-TB

Saint Louis University is leading a multi-national clinical trial of what could become a regimen for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) that does not require injectable medications. The project is funded by a $6.4 million task order from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

26 Aug 2017

Junk genes could one day offer framework for treating people with familial hypercholesterolemia

Scientists from UCLA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute successfully used a gene that suppresses cholesterol levels as part of a treatment to reduce plaque in mice with a disorder called familial hypercholesterolemia.

26 Aug 2017

LSU Health New Orleans receives $10 million grant to support research on virus-induced cancers

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $10 million grant over five years to support new basic research studies advancing the development new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for virus-induced cancers.

26 Aug 2017

ESCMID conference brings together renowned experts to address most pressing questions on vaccines

Registration is open for the 4th ESCMID Conference on Vaccines. New and old diseases in children and adults: unmet needs in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Friday 8 September to Sunday 10 September 2017. Registration for bona fide journalists is free.

26 Aug 2017

Study explores losses resulting from secondary effects of earthquakes

Earthquakes: Nature's most unpredictable and one of her most devastating natural disasters. When high intensity earthquakes strike they can cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damaged property.

26 Aug 2017

UC San Diego researchers receive $18.2 million grant for B cell cancer clinical trial

The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine today unanimously approved an $18.29 million grant to University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers to fund a phase Ib/IIa clinical trial of a novel combination drug therapy for B-cell cancers.

26 Aug 2017

ESC recommendations on management of patients with peripheral arterial diseases published

European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, developed in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), are published online today in European Heart Journal, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, and the ESC website.

26 Aug 2017

Underweight patients more likely to have worse outcomes after cardiac catheterization

Being underweight, and not overweight, has the highest mortality, cost, length of stay, and readmission rate for those undergoing cardiac catheterization, according to an analysis of more than one million patients presented at ESC Congress today.

26 Aug 2017

Women more often receive inadequate treatment to prevent cardiovascular events

Women at high risk of cardiovascular events are less likely to receive recommended statin doses for secondary prevention, according to results from the DYSIS study presented today at ESC Congress.

26 Aug 2017

Study: Gender gap in mortality from myocardial infarction has narrowed particularly in younger women

The gender gap in death from heart attack has reduced over the past two decades particularly in younger women, according to research presented today at ESC Congress. The study in over 50 000 patients found that overall in-hospital mortality for heart attack patients was halved during the 20 year period.

26 Aug 2017

UA College of Medicine - Tucson selected for NIH initiative to advance critical emergency medicine research

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is one of a team of six national institutions selected for the Strategies to Innovate EmeRgENcy Care Clinical Trials Network, a new initiative of the National Institutes of Health to advance critical emergency medicine research.

26 Aug 2017

New ESC Focused Update provides recommendations on DAPT in patients with coronary artery disease

The first ESC Focused Update on Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Coronary Artery Disease is published online today in European Heart Journal, and on the ESC website.

26 Aug 2017

Pfizer announces launch two new digital innovations to help people living with hemophilia

Pfizer Inc. today announced the launch of Hemocraft, a modification of the popular video game Minecraft, and the HemMobile Striiv Wearable, a custom wristband, to help people living with hemophilia better approach hemophilia education and activity tracking in the US.

26 Aug 2017

Insertable cardiac monitors reveal prevalence of undiagnosed atrial fibrillation in high risk patients

With the use of implanted cardiac monitors researchers found a substantial incidence (nearly 30 percent) of previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF) after 18 months in patients at high risk of both AF and stroke, according to a study published by JAMA Cardiology.

26 Aug 2017

High levels of microbes deprive host of essential nutrients, research suggests

"Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do," says Federico Rey, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Then we get their leftovers -- or their waste.

26 Aug 2017

New study compares experiences of women undergoing IVF either to become pregnant or for money

An individual's reason for undergoing a medical intervention -- be it to prevent or treat disease, earn money, or to have a child -- may result in variations in the bodily experience of the patient, Yale researchers have found.

26 Aug 2017

Research paves way for new drugs that may prevent tumor repopulation after radiation therapy

Whenever an organism is damaged, the cells surrounding the wound receive signals to proliferate more intensely so as to regenerate the injured tissue.

26 Aug 2017

Astex celebrates as breast cancer drug gets European marketing approval

Astex Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics for oncology and diseases of the central nervous system, announced today that its long-standing pharmaceutical collaborator, Novartis, has received marketing approval in Europe for Kisqali (ribociclib) plus an aromatase inhibitor as a first-line treatment in post-menopausal women with hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 negative (HR+/HER2-) locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

26 Aug 2017

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Hurricane and flood handbook provides tips on how to prepare before the storm

Hospital enables young patients with cerebral palsy, disabilities to take part in therapeutic riding program

SLU-led project receives NIH funding for clinical trial on potential treatment for MDR-TB

Junk genes could one day offer framework for treating people with familial hypercholesterolemia

LSU Health New Orleans receives $10 million grant to support research on virus-induced cancers

ESCMID conference brings together renowned experts to address most pressing questions on vaccines

Study explores losses resulting from secondary effects of earthquakes

UC San Diego researchers receive $18.2 million grant for B cell cancer clinical trial

ESC recommendations on management of patients with peripheral arterial diseases published

Underweight patients more likely to have worse outcomes after cardiac catheterization

Women more often receive inadequate treatment to prevent cardiovascular events

Study: Gender gap in mortality from myocardial infarction has narrowed particularly in younger women

UA College of Medicine - Tucson selected for NIH initiative to advance critical emergency medicine research

New ESC Focused Update provides recommendations on DAPT in patients with coronary artery disease

Pfizer announces launch two new digital innovations to help people living with hemophilia

Insertable cardiac monitors reveal prevalence of undiagnosed atrial fibrillation in high risk patients

High levels of microbes deprive host of essential nutrients, research suggests

New study compares experiences of women undergoing IVF either to become pregnant or for money

Research paves way for new drugs that may prevent tumor repopulation after radiation therapy

Astex celebrates as breast cancer drug gets European marketing approval

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