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The American College of Cardiology has partnered with Aga Khan Health Services to implement the CathPCI Registry in two hospitals ...

Under age 13, suicide rates are roughly double for black children vs. white children

Suicide rates in the United States have traditionally been higher among whites than blacks across all age groups. However, a ...

Indiana research institute receives $33 million grant to improve health with public participation

Credit: IU School of Medicine Indiana consistently lands near the bottom of the nation's health ranking lists, with too many ...

Report of interventional cardiology practice presented in first extensive survey

Paris, France - 22 May 2018: A report on interventional cardiology practice from an extensive survey is presented today at ...

What helps form long-term memory also drives the development of neurodegenerative disease

Dublin, Tuesday 22nd May, 2018 - Scientists have just discovered that a small region of a cellular protein that helps ...

‘Serendipitous’ use of antimalarial drug may have improved outcome for cancer patient

A cancer patient with advanced ovarian cancer had a "remarkable" journey to recovery that may be partially attributed to a ...

Link between tuberculosis and Parkinson’s disease discovered

Credit: Susanne Herbst, Francis Crick Institute The mechanism our immune cells use to clear bacterial infections like tuberculosis (TB) might ...

Physiology-stratified analysis of ORBITA

Paris, France, 22 May 2018. Invasive physiology data from 196 patients from the Objective Randomised Blinded Investigation with optimal medical ...

FFR-guided PCI vs. medical therapy to reduce cardiac death and myocardial infarction

Results from the first patient-level pooled analysis of all existing trials comparing FFR-guided PCI with contemporary stents versus medical therapy ...

SYNTAX III Revolution trial

Paris, France, 22 May 2018. Results from the innovative SYNTAX III Revolution trial underline the effectiveness of evolving non-invasive algorithms ...

Procedure plus medication is better than standard treatment for heart disease patients

TORONTO, May 22, 2018 - A non-surgical procedure, called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), along with prescribed medication, is better than ...

DNA-based vaccine treatment for colorectal cancer to undergo first human study

Washington, DC (May 22, 2018) -- For the first time in humans, researchers will test a two-pronged approach to treat ...

More patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis receiving liver transplants

Washington, DC (May 22, 2018) -- Increasingly, liver transplant centers are changing a long-standing practice of delaying potentially life-saving liver ...

Model estimates lifetime risk of Alzheimer’s dementia using biomarkers

Lifetime risks of developing Alzheimer's disease dementia vary considerably by age, gender and whether any signs or symptoms of dementia ...

New study sheds light on the opioid epidemic and challenges prevailing views about this public health crisis

Credit: American Journal of Preventive Medicine Ann Arbor, May 22, 2018 - A study published in the American Journal of ...

Blue dye tablet helps identify polyps during colonoscopy

Washington, D.C. (May 22, 2018) -- Ingestion of a blue dye tablet during bowel prep for colonoscopy could be a ...

Clues found to early lung transplant failure

Among organ transplant patients, those receiving new lungs face a higher rate of organ failure and death compared with people ...

Birds from different species recognize each other and cooperate

Credit: Allison Johnson Cooperation among different species of birds is common. Some birds build their nests near those of larger, ...

The chestnut gall wasp — The threat of an invasive species with clonal reproduction

Credit: University of Extremadura A molecular study carried out on the chestnut gall wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus, has revealed the absence ...

The vessel not taken: Understanding disproportionate blood flow