More deaths, strokes seen with perioperative beta blocker one year after surgery
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- During the 12 months after undergoing noncardiac surgery, patients with or at risk for heart...
Near infrared chemical imaging can help maintain the safety of pharmaceutical tablets
Credit: Credit: Himmat Dalvi, Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre, Jean-Maxime Guay, Nicolas Abatzoglou and Ryan Gosselin Process Analytical Technology (PAT) has been of...
Trial for gout drug meets primary endpoint, raises safety
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- Febuxostat, a gout drug that has been in use for nearly a decade, was found...
Canakinumab doesn’t prevent prediabetes from progressing to diabetes
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- The anti-inflammatory drug canakinumab had no effect on rates of newly diagnosed diabetes in people...
Why some older people are rejecting digital technologies
Fear of making mistakes and wider concerns about their social responsibility are among reasons why older people are rejecting digital...
Study identifies shortcomings young patients with type 2 diabetes transition to adult care
Youth-onset type 2 diabetes is increasing globally as a result of pediatric obesity. A new study in Diabetic Medicine shows...
Smoking heightens risk of psychoses
Credit: Jouko Miettunen, [email protected], tel. +358 40 716 7261 Smoking at least ten cigarettes a day is linked to a...
Heart attack risk increases with six-month dual antiplatelet therapy
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- The combined rate of death from any cause, heart attack or stroke within 18 months...
Trial bolsters evidence in favor of closing hole in heart after stroke
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- Among people with a type of hole in the heart, known as patent foramen ovale...
Critical limb ischemia treatment shows no improvement at three months
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- Patients with foot ulcers or gangrene who received the experimental drug JVS-100 did not show...
Would you pay for an Ebola vaccine? Most say yes.
Credit: George Mason University The 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak was the deadliest in history, infecting more than 28,000 people...
Study identifies 76 quality indicators essential for emergency care systems in Africa
NEW YORK (March 12, 2018)-- The need for emergency care in low-income and middle-income countries has never been greater, but...
Drug stops dangerous bleeding in patients taking factor Xa inhibitors
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- The experimental drug andexanet was associated with control of serious bleeding in patients taking a...
GW researcher awarded $2.4 million to study the role of the brain in obesity-induced hypertension
WASHINGTON (March 12, 2018) -- Obesity is a problem that affects about 30 percent of the population in the United...
Study tackles neuroscience claims to have disproved ‘free will’
For several decades, some researchers have argued that neuroscience studies prove human actions are driven by external stimuli -- that...
Study finds flatfoot reconstruction effective for older patients
When someone develops adult-acquired flatfoot deformity (AAFD), they are offered either a reconstruction or foot fusion depending on the severity...
Blood thinner significantly reduces the risk of death after non-cardiac surgery
Hamilton, ON - Researchers in Hamilton have discovered that a blood-thinning drug, dabigatran, significantly reduces the risk of death, heart...
Study yields more than a million new cyclic compounds, some with pharmaceutical potential
Credit: Photo by Don Hamerman CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers say they can now produce a vast library of unique cyclic...
Oncotarget To be indexed in highly esteemed meta database
Oncotarget announced that its peer-reviewed research publications will be indexed in Meta, a world-renowned database of scientific literature, alongside other...
Precision oncology in advanced cancer patients improves overall survival
Credit: Lincoln D. Nadauld, email: [email protected] The use of advanced molecular diagnostic technologies, such as Next-Generation Sequencing based gene panel...
