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Management of mitral regurgitation in a patient contemplating pregnancy
In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Volume 2, Number 4, 2018, pp 439-446(8); DOI: https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2017.0027, researchers Yee-Ping...
Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that anesthesia in young children lowers intelligence
ROCHESTER, Minn. - A Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that children given anesthesia before their third birthdays have lower...
World-first research into injury rates among people released from prison
Centre for Mental Health Research Fellow Mr Jesse Young led a study that identified hospital records for 1307 people released...
University of Delaware professor receives $2.3 million grant to study Achilles injuries
Credit: University of Delaware/ Aaron Davis University of Delaware assistant professor Karin Gravare Silbernagel (Physical Therapy) received a five-year, $2.3...
Ischemic mitral regurgitation
In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Volume 2, Number 4, 2018, pp 435-437(3); DOI: https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2017.0018, researchers Marc...
Active young adults with Type 1 diabetes have muscle complications: Study
Credit: York University News Toronto, ON (April 18, 2018) - A new study from McMaster and York universities has found...
NIH funds a research consortium to address firearm deaths among US children and teens
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Among children in the United States, firearm-related fatalities are the second leading cause...
An asymptomatic patient with severe mitral regurgitation
In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Volume 2, Number 4, 2018, pp 431-434(4); DOI: https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2017.0034, researcher Blase...
Overcoming bias about music takes work
Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and...
Jeffrey H. Samet, M.D., F.A.C.P., honored with national award from American College of Physicians
Philadelphia, 2017 -- Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH, FACP, has been awarded the American College of Physicians (ACP) Richard...
Standard Bariatrics closes Series A round of financing
Credit: Bruce Crippen for Standard Bariatrics (Cincinnati, OH-- April 18, 2018) Standard Bariatrics, Inc., an innovator of bariatric surgical devices,...
Casey Strale Foundation tops $150,000 in gifts to TGen
Credit: Photo courtesy of TGen NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- April 17, 2018 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an...
Engineering a better device to capture — and release — circulating tumor cells
Credit: iDreamMachine For years, bioengineer Yaling Liu has been in pursuit of the deadly tumor cell. Liu has been perfecting...
Development of a quantitative pharmacodynamic assay for apoptosis in fixed tumor tissue
Credit: Oncotarget Existing microscopy-based methods of detecting apoptosis, such as TUNEL (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick-end labeling), have limited quantitative...
Having fully stocked cart to treat malignant hyperthermia during labor not cost-beneficial
CHICAGO - Maintaining a stocked cart, with a full supply of the life-saving drug dantrolene, to treat malignant hyperthermia, a...
Insilico to present the advances in Artificial Intelligence for African pharmaceutical industry
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, April 118th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of...
Direct electrical current used to preferentially inhibit pain-transmitting neurons
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Using computer models and laboratory rats, Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that "direct electrical current" can...
Safety measures could save 250,000 lives a year in low- and middle-income countries
Interventions such as speeding enforcement and formal swimming lessons for young children could potentially save more than 250,000 lives a...
Water dynamics indicate tumor status
How aggressive is a tumor? To measure the tumor status without taking tissue samples, Italian researchers have developed a method...
Obesity linked with higher chance of developing rapid, irregular heart rate
HERSHEY, Pa. -- People with obesity are more likely to develop a rapid and irregular heart rate, called atrial fibrillation,...
