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PET imaging visualizes hard-to-diagnose cardiac amyloidosis
Credit: W. Phillip Law/Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Reston, Virginia - Researchers at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, have demonstrated...
Hospital for Special Surgery survey defines need for health outreach programs
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), which has an Outpatient Center in Stamford, plans to increase...
Two antibiotics fight bacteria differently than thought
Credit: Alexander Mankin, UIC Two widely prescribed antibiotics -- chloramphenicol and linezolid -- may fight bacteria in a different way...
New drug combination has potential to significantly improve chemotherapy success
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia researchers have found a way to enhance chemotherapy's cancer-killing powers, bringing science...
Researchers identify new drug target for gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic provide the...
There’s money in your wearable fitness tracker
Your wearable fitness tracker is great at counting the number of steps you took today, but it could also provide...
Hospital readmission history a valid measure of skilled nursing quality
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --When an elderly loved one is discharged from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the family's...
Brown researchers developing new interactive sleep app
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There are plenty of cellphone apps on the market designed to help people monitor their sleep patterns....
Study finds mild exercise helps decrease pain and improve activity level in older adults
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery It's never too late to reap the benefits of exercise, and that includes older adults...
Moving toward a gold standard in patient handoff protocols
You're in the hospital under around-the-clock care for whatever it is that ails you. During any 24-hour period, your physicians...
Could a cannabinoid pill treat concussion?
Credit: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine The goal of finding a treatment for concussion may be one step...
New discovery could help oral medicines work better
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (11/01/16) -- A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and The Dow Chemical Company have discovered...
Scientists prove how genetics change behavior by studying worms’ foraging strategies
Credit: Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at The Rockefeller University/Nature "Organisms pay attention to what other members of their...
Results from the PARTNER I FIVE YEAR ECHO study presented at TCT 2016
WASHINGTON - November 2, 2016 - A substudy of the PARTNER I Trial and Continued Access Registry found that hemodynamic...
US Food and Drug Administration awards Critical Path Institute three grants, one contract
Tucson, November 1, 2016--The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded Critical Path Institute (C-Path) three grants to develop...
Fruits and vegetables may slow ALS
October 31, 2016--New research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health reveals that foods like fruits and vegetables that...
TCT 2016 first reports examine potential for novel bioresorbable stent technologies
NEW YORK - October 31, 2016 - The 28th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the annual scientific symposium of the...
Food supply — not ‘live fast, die young’ mentality — makes male crickets chirpy
Credit: Tom Houslay / University of Exeter Shedding a few pounds might be a good strategy in the human dating...
Survey: Majority under 35 think e-cigs are safer, research studies aim to find out
Credit: The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Most Americans under age 35 think that using electronic...
Is shotgun marriage dead?
Credit: Credit - Duke Center for Child and Family Policy DURHAM, N.C. -- Shotgun marriages have faded in popularity overall,...
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