Risk, benefit or cost: What stops patients from receiving a diagnostic test?
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Diagnostic tests can help identify disease and disease probability in patients. "We try, in the health care community,...
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Fighting the flu, year after year
Credit: NIAID WHAT: In a New England Journal of Medicine perspective, experts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the...
Penn medicine: Transplant centers often reject potential donor livers…
IMAGE: David Goldberg is an assistant professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA –...
Risk of international spread of yellow fever re-assessed in light of the ongoing outbreaks
ECDC has updated its rapid risk assessment on the outbreak of yellow fever with the latest developments, more comprehensive information on the current situation in...
Muscles can’t get any faster then this … a fundamental muscle speed limit
Credit: Lasse Jakobsen & Coen Elemans/SDU. When birds sing their elaborate songs, bats echolocate, rattlesnakes rattle and toadfish hum they use so-called superfast muscles, the...
Length of opioid prescription spell highest risk for misuse after surgery
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – With opioid overdoses now a leading cause of nonintentional death in the United States, data show most...
UTSW scientists identify protein central to immune response against…
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS, Jan. 11, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein that is central to the immune...
Hormones help tadpoles trade size for survival in a warming climate,…
Credit: University of Cincinnati Deep within aquatic ecosystems all over the world, certain toad species have managed to survive warmer and drier climate change. But...
Depression drug reduces joint pain for women with early stage breast cancer
Credit: Lynn Henry Portland, Oregon – A drug typically used to treat depression and anxiety can significantly reduce joint pain in postmenopausal women being treated...
Study: Only 1 in 5 US pancreatic cancer patients get this key blood test at diagnosis
NAPA, Calif. — Only 1 in 5 U.S. pancreatic cancer patients receive a widely available, inexpensive blood test at diagnosis that can help predict whether...
Andalusian experts discover new procedures for DNA stability
Credit: University of Seville Researchers from the University of Seville at the Andalusian Centre for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular...
The Ottawa hospital emergency surgery study
Credit: The Ottawa Hospital Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa are tackling the often-overlooked issue of delayed emergency surgeries. Emergency surgeries...
Screen to beam technology: The rise of haptic interfaces
Credit: Bruno et al. Haptic interfaces have been readily adopted because of their intuitive ease of use and convenience. Obvious examples are the screens for...
Does intracranial pressure monitoring improve outcomes in severe traumatic brain injury?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 15, 2017–A new study has shown that use of intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring in patients...
Slender face identified as novel marker for left-handedness
Credit: Courtesy of Philippe Hujoel Individuals with a slender lower face are about 25 percent more likely to be left-handed. This unexpected finding (abstract) was...
