Successful completion of 10,000 Ulsan Genomes Project
Credit: UNIST On April 26, UNIST and Ulsan City officially announced that their ambitious 10,000 Genome Project has finally reached ...
Tag: Mortality/Longevity
Care teams differ for Black, white surgical patients in the same hospitals
Could the makeup of medical teams help explain why Black patients are more likely than white patients to die after ...
Epilepsy discovery reveals why some seizures prove deadly
Credit: Courtesy Patel lab New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on the No. ...
Growth in home health care failing to keep up with surging demand, study finds
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Recent growth in the number of healthcare workers providing home care for Medicare patients ...
Pandemic led to profound changes in multiple sclerosis clinical practice
UC Riverside-led national survey of MS specialists finds nearly 10% had been redeployed to the front lines of COVID-19 patient ...
Researchers discover new way to monitor & prevent nerve cell deterioration after TBI
Potential mechanistic link shown between Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer's diseaseCredit: University Hospitals/The Pieper Lab Violent blows or jolts to ...
Family ties: Early cardiac events pose major and different risks in close relatives
Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University Family history of early cardiac events in first degree relatives such as a parent ...
Heart failure and stroke rising in men under 40
Credit: Photo: Cecilia Hedstrom Heart failure and stroke are unusual diagnoses among younger people. But they are now clearly on ...
Race and poverty appear to guide heart muscle DNA methylation in heart-failure patients
Differences in DNA methylation correlated with differences in heart-failure outcomes, as measured by two-year mortality.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Race ...
AGS honors Dr. Helen Fernandez for outstanding contributions to geriatrics education
Credit: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today announced that Helen Fernandez, MD, MPH, ...
US deaths normally change less than 2% each year; in 2020, they rose nearly 23%
Black Americans experienced highest per capita excess death rates, while regional surges contributed to higher excess death rates from COVID-19 ...
Stem cell transplants prevent relapses of most common childhood cancer
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for the most common childhood ...
Study: Race made no difference in ICU Outcomes of COVID-19 patients
Henry Ford Hospital researchers said patients of color had lower 28-day mortality than white patientsCredit: Henry Ford Health System DETROIT ...
Starting smoking cessation in hospitalized patients would reduce many premature deaths
Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University Smoking cigarettes causes 480,000 premature deaths each year in the United States, due mainly ...
Scientists reveal regenerative treatment path for diabetic foot ulcers
The approach also holds potential for repairing internal organs such as the heart, intestine and liver, which can become damaged ...
Maintaining body weight won’t save colorectal cancer survivors
Stable body weight may hide loss of muscle, 40 percent higher risk of premature deathCredit: Pennington Biomedical Research Center Colorectal ...
Chemical cocktail creates new avenues for generating muscle stem cells
The advance could lead to the development of stem cell-based therapies for muscle loss or damage due to injury, age ...
Second COVID-19 wave in Europe less lethal than first wave
Applied mathematics methods used to study mortality rates of multiple waves of COVID-19Credit: Nick James, Max Menzies, and Peter Radchenko ...
Pick up the pace!
New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19Credit: Getty images SLOW walkers are almost four ...
Accurate aging of wild animals thanks to first epigenetic clock for bats
UMD-led research identifies age-related changes to DNA and reveals longevity-related differences between bat speciesCredit: G. Wilkinson, G. Jones, S. Puechmaille, ...
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