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Stenting To Prop Open Blocked Arteries: Will That Be Through An Arm Or A Leg?
When it comes to stenting -- using metal tubes to prop open blocked arteries -- physicians are continuing to choose to gain entry to the circulatory system through an opening...
Still Puzzling: Best Care For The Frail And Elderly With Coronary Artery Disease
Patients treated solely with medications after suffering from chest pain, heart attack or coronary artery disease are more likely to die during the first year following their initial hospitalization. Researchers...
Averting Postsurgical Infections In Kids: Give Antibiotics Within Hour Before First Incision, Study Suggests
Giving children preventive antibiotics within one hour before they undergo spinal surgery greatly reduces the risk for serious infections after the surgery, suggests a study to be published in the...
Researchers grow human blood vessels in mice from adult progenitor cells
For the first time, researchers have successfully grown functional human blood vessels in mice using cells from adult human donors — an important step in developing clinical strategies to grow...
Hip resurfacing rises as an alternative for younger patients
The procedure may make subsequent surgeries more feasible than total hip replacement. Some doctors think it's the best option for young, active patients. Others caution against it. ...
You don't say: Coffee and cigarette consumption are high among AA attendees
More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program. While AA participants are reportedly notorious for their coffee drinking and cigarette smoking, very little research has...
An ID for Alzheimer's?
Every aging baby boomer listens for the footsteps of Alzheimer's, and for good reason: It's estimated that 10 million American boomers will develop the disease. The need to develop preventative...
Compulsive shopping: Is it a disorder?
Adopting compulsive shopping as a diagnosis would require most insurers to cover its treatment, among other implications. ...
Health officials: Don't eat lobster tomalley
(AP) -- Maine officials are advising consumers to avoid eating lobster tomalley after tests revealed high levels of toxins in some lobsters.
Rise Seen in Medical Efforts to Treat the Very Old
Some doctors are hailing surgery for centenarians, but others say such procedures can be wasteful and barbaric.
Doctor counsels with hope when risky procedure's at hand
Linda Reid Chassiakos recalls a lesson learned as a medical student. ...
Push-ups: the near-perfect strength-building exercise
I have heard that the push-up is the best overall exercise for toning and strengthening the upper body. Is this true?
Thigh-muscle stretch works best if body stays in alignment
It's very easy to cheat when performing some of the more popular stretches. But without proper form, we can end up wasting our time or worse -- creating undue stress...
Youthful fling with 'Tommy John' surgery
More high school athletes are replacing elbow ligaments, raising concerns about overtraining. ...
Easing Pain And Numbness Associated With Diabetes
To ease pain and numbness associated with diabetes, scientists are studying a drug previously used for depression to treat peripheral neuropathy. Diabetics often suffer from this condition because of high...
Alzheimer's Early Detection: Biomarkers Identify Early Onset Of Disease, Before Symptoms Appear
Researchers have confirmed that in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's, levels of specific proteins in the blood and spinal fluid can be used to track the progression of AD, long...
Analysis Of Quickly Stopped Rx Orders Provides New Tool For Reducing Medical Errors
By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ("discontinued") by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers have demonstrated a systematic and efficient method of identifying prescribing errors. The method,...
Prenatal Drinking, Environmental Enrichment: Effects On Neurotrophins Are Independent Of Each Other
Prenatal alcohol exposure may be particularly destructive for neurotrophins, a family of peptides that influence the growth, development and functional plasticity of the fetal brain. A new rodent study of...
Bad science: Still no cure for cancer hysteria
Ben Goldacre: The newspapers are so profoundly overrun with pseudoscience about food that there's no point in documenting it any longer
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Eye solution could harm users: Health Canada
Health Canada has issued an advisory about an eye solution that may harm people using it.
Vitamins, nutrients suppress obesity genes in mice, study finds
A diet supplemented with folic acid, vitamin B-12 and other additives kept successive generations of mice from getting fatter, researchers find. ...
Iqaluit study to focus on pregnant smokers
Researchers are preparing to start a study in Nunavut's Baffin region to determine why pregnant women smoke, and develop recommendations on how to help them butt out.
Two Orange County men test positive for West Nile virus
Screenings after they donated blood revealed that they had the virus; neither man has symptoms of an illness, though. The infections are the first that have been confirmed in the...
Researchers use salmonella to administer vaccines
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver...
Researchers link obesity, exhaustion
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., July 18 (UPI) -- Pure exhaustion could be tagged as another contributor to obesity, British and U.S. researchers said.
Agency shows drop in MRSA infections
LONDON, July 18 (UPI) -- Rates of difficult-to-treat infections have dropped substantially but British health officials say they've seen a rise in a type of colitis.
Heat, smog and exercise: Risky business?
You've heard those heat and smog alert warnings. Stay indoors and avoid exercise. But health experts say the benefits of getting in your exercise outweigh the risks, as long as...