Tag: Internal Medicine

April 21, 2021

Pulmonary arterial hypertension occurs when blood vessels in the lungs are blocked or destroyed, which can cause the heart to ...

Blood pressure and hemorrhagic complication risk after renal transplant biopsy

2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting Scientific Electronic Exhibit found no statistically significant threshold for increased renal transplant biopsy risk based ...

Diagnostic yield of non-contrast pituitary MRI for pediatric pathologies

2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting Scientific Electronic Exhibit found non-contrast pituitary MRI for central precocious puberty, growth hormone deficiency, short ...

E-cigarette users in rural Appalachia develop more severe lung injuries

Credit: Zane Lacko/WVU Just as e-cigarette ingredients can vary from one region to another, the health effects of vaping can ...

Designing healthy diets – with computer analysis

Credit: Creative Commons A new mathematical model for the interaction of bacteria in the gut could help design new probiotics ...

American Roentgen Ray Society awards 2021 ARRS Gold Medal to entire membership

For valiant service selflessly rendered on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19, the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) symbolically ...

National report highlights benefit of collaborative care models for people with dementia

Research and implementation by Regenstrief research scientists cited in reportCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- A new report from the National ...

Can cirrhosis of the liver be treated with faeces transplantation?

Researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital replace sick intestinal bacteria with intestinal bacteria from healthy donors in a ...

Research sheds new light on pancreatic cancer metastasis

Credit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY -- With an overall survival rate of 9% for those diagnosed, pancreatic cancer remains exceedingly ...

An antibody-drug combo to combat cancer

April 16, 2021

Credit: Department of Biodefense Research,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Leukemias are debilitating cancers of the hematopoietic or blood-forming cells of the ...

$3M awarded to orthopedics researcher to study role of gut microbiome on osteoarthritis

Michael Zuscik, Ph.D., says the research could lead to the first disease-modifying treatment for patients with osteoarthritisCredit: Michael Zuscik, PhD ...

Lung cancer screening predicts risk of death from heart disease

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - A deep learning algorithm accurately predicts the risk of death ...

New benefits from anti-diabetic drug metformin

Metformin inhibits disease progression in non-diabetic chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD)Credit: Professor Hirofumi Kai Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found ...

Potential impact of pass/fail USMLE Step 1 scoring on radiology residency applications