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UTHealth CATCH Program Helps Communities, Teachers and Children Fight Obesity
Gone are the days when a child's weight problems could be brushed off as "baby fat." Child obesity has more than tripled over the last 30 years, according to the...
Eating chocolate cuts risk of heart disease
(Medical Xpress) -- The researchers compiled a systematic review of seven studies using data from 114,000 patients and found that people who consumed the most chocolate had a 37 per...
Rural areas at higher risk of dengue fever than cities
In dengue-endemic areas such as South-East Asia, in contrast to conventional thinking, rural areas rather than cities may bear the highest burden of dengue fever -- a viral infection that...
World Briefing | ASIA: Taiwan: 5 Get Organs With H.I.V.
One of Taiwan’s best-regarded hospitals said H.I.V.-infected organs were mistakenly transplanted into five patients after a staff member misheard the donor’s test results over the telephone.
New Phase-Changing Gel Method Repairs Severed Blood Vessels Better than Stitches
Human Artery Cross-Section Wikimedia Commons A new heat-sensitive gel and glue combo is a major step forward for cardiovascular surgery, enabling blood vessels to be reconnected without puncturing them with a needle and...
Research aims to starve breast cancer cells
The most common breast cancer uses the most efficient, powerful food delivery system known in human cells and blocking that system kills it, researchers report. This method of starving cancer...
Inhibition of microRNAs can stimulate the growth of new blood vessels
This is the result of a recent experimental study carried out at the University Hospital Freiburg in Germany and funded by the German Research Foundation. In an animal model of...
The Homburg Cream and Sugar study
The Homburg Cream and Sugar (HCS) study was designed to determine whether the measurement of postprandial triglyceride in addition to the assessment of glucose tolerance and traditional risk factors might...
Colchicine proves 'safe and effective' in the prevention of recurrent pericarditis
Colchicine, when given in addition to conventional therapy, was more effective than placebo in reducing the incidence of recurrence and the persistence of symptoms of pericarditis in a randomised controlled...
Atherosclerosis is not limited to the heart
For cardiologists, coronary artery disease is the most important presentation of atherosclerosis. Patients with coronary artery disease may also have symptomatic or asymptomatic atherosclerosis in other vascular areas (peripheral artery...
Huge gaps in use of simple, cheap and proven drugs worldwide
A global study in 17 countries led by McMaster University researchers has found too few patients are using drugs proven to give significant benefits in warding off a heart attack...
Free Radicals Crucial To Suppressing Appetite
Obesity is growing at alarming rates worldwide, and the biggest culprit is overeating. In a study of brain circuits that control hunger and satiety, Yale School of Medicine researchers have...
Mother delivers baby in the middle of earthquake
Baby's head had just appeared when the temblor began"We've had babies in other storms that Mother Nature has brought us," spokesman Michael Schwartzberg said. "As far as I know, this...
Study tests if a warm heart makes a better transplant
'Fresh is always better than frozen,' one optimistic recipient says after surgery at UCLA.Rob Evans, a 61-year-old social worker from Apache Junction, Ariz., got the good news on Father's Day:...
For Some Medical Evacuees, Seeking Safety Brought Its Own Difficulties
The city’s effort to get the elderly and infirm out of harm’s way did not always proceed smoothly.
Dr. Charles C. Edwards, Influential F.D.A. Commissioner, Dies at 87
Dr. Edwards ordered that a message be inserted in each package of birth control pills discussing the benefits and hazards.
Research from Everest: Can leucine help burn fat and spare muscle tissue during exercise?
Research on Mt. Everest climbers is adding to the evidence that an amino acid called leucine -- found in foods, dietary supplements, energy bars and other products -- may help...
Controlling cells' environments: A step toward building much-needed tissues and organs
With stem cells so fickle and indecisive that they make Shakespeare's Hamlet pale by comparison, scientists have described an advance in encouraging stem cells to make decisions about their fate....
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and type II diabetes: New way to target shape-shifting proteins
A molecule which can stop the formation of long protein strands, known as amyloid fibrils, that cause joint pain in kidney dialysis patients has been identified. The discovery could lead...
Genetic link to mesothelioma discovered
Scientists have found that individuals who carry a mutation in a gene called BAP1 are susceptible to developing two forms of cancer -- mesothelioma, and melanoma of the eye. Additionally,...
Clinical importance of leukemia stem cells validated by new study
New research focuses on patients and shows that acute myeloid leukemia (AML) contains rare cells with stem cell properties, called leukemia stem cells (LSC), that are better at predicting clinical...
Leslie Le Quesne obituary
Professor of surgery at the Middlesex hospitalSurgeons in the 1960s tended to be concerned with the technique of operations rather than their outcome. The bitter jibe – "the operation was successful but the...
Statins reduce deaths from infection and respiratory illness, eight years on from trial
The death rate among patients prescribed a statin in a major trial that ended in 2003 is still lower than those given a placebo, even though most participants in both...
Worse postoperative outcomes for critically ill patients bridged to urgent heart transplantation with VADs than with conventional therapy, study suggests
Postoperative outcomes of severe heart failure patients bridged with short-term VADs to urgent (~ status UNOS 1A) heart transplantation are significantly worse than those of patients bridged with conventional support,...
Efficacy and safety of apixaban compared to warfarin for prevention of stroke and systemic embolism
A large-scale trial finds that apixaban, a new anticoagulant drug, is superior to the standard drug warfarin for preventing stroke and systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation. Moreover, apixaban...
Patients are living longer with ICDs, but pacing impacts survival rates
The adverse effect of right ventricular pacing on implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patient survival is sustained long-term; however, the impact appears to be mitigated by cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), based on...
Trial Shows Blockbuster Potential for Blood Clot Pill Eliquis
The pill, Eliquis, exceeded expectations as a better therapy for millions of people with atrial fibrillation, according to final results of a worldwide study released Sunday.
Restaurant review: Manchurian Legends
Chinatown's latest eaterie has a menu that is white hot – just avoid mixing with polite society afterwards…12 Macclesfield Street, London W1 (020 7437 8785) Meal for two, including wine and service, £70The...