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Findings released from 1 of the largest percutaneous coronary intervention trials ever
A study led by Gregg W. Stone, M.D., professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian and chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, has shown that heart attack patients who...
How Common Vaccine Booster Works
A common ingredient in many vaccines stimulates and interacts with the immune system to help provide protection against infectious diseases. Vaccines must possess not only the bacterial or viral components...
DHEA Supplements Not Effective In Treating Cognitive Decline, Study Suggests
DHEA supplements are widely-available and touted as a preventive agent for many chronic diseases. A new study however, finds no evidence of a beneficial effect of DHEA supplements on cognitive...
More intensive dialysis does not improve outcomes among patients with acute kidney injury
No significant difference in death rates or other outcomes was found between a group of patients with acute kidney injury that received intensive dialysis and another group that received a...
New Study Firms Up Promise Of Potential New Cervical Cancer Screening Tool
New research into the causes of cervical cancer appears to lend weight to the promise of a potential early detection method that could help prevent the disease.
Doctors Can Unmask Deceptive High-risk Breast Tumors Using Genetic Profile
A unique genetic signature can alert physicians to high-risk breast tumors that are masquerading as low-risk tumors, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and...
ICU Physicians Less Likely To Discuss Prognoses With African-American Patients
An important study raises concern about the way intensive care physicians approach patients and families facing serious end-of-life medical decisions. Based on interviews with more than 1,200 ICU physicians at...
Friends quit smoking? You probably will too
(AP) -- The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern...
Merck ends study of cholesterol drug
(AP) -- Merck & Co. has halted a study of an experimental drug it had touted as key to energizing its sagging cholesterol franchise, barely three weeks after U.S....
Outaouais ER wait times 20 hours, 42 minutes and counting
Got an urgent medical problem? If you visit an emergency room in western Quebec's Outaouais region, prepare to wait an average of 20 hours and 42 minutes before being discharged...
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Gene Therapy: Oral Gene Delivery System For Inflammatory Bowel Disease Works, Study Shows
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) afflicts as many as 10 out of 100,000 people in the United States and currently available treatment options are short-term and invasive with toxic side effects....
Presidential election will bring change in federal stem cell policy
Embryonic stem cell research will likely have a more sympathetic ear in the White House after November’s presidential election, but a panel of speakers said last night that an era...
Lab breakthrough seen in lethal dengue fever
Scientists in Taiwan believe they can explain how a form of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that is triggering widening concern, reaps its deadly toll.
Chip-Based Device Measures Drug Resistance in Tumor Cells
Multiple drug resistance is a major cause of anticancer therapy failure. Most drug-resistance cancer cells develop this unfortunate characteristic due to a drug-pumping protein known as P-glycoprotein.
Counting Immune Cells On A 'Protein Printboard'
In order to monitor how far an HIV infection has progressed, the number of immune cells – lymphocytes – must be counted. Researchers have developed a method that neatly arranges...
Challenges of HIV-1 subtype diversity
A review article in the New England Journal of Medicine explores the genetic variation of HIV-1 and its implications for preventing and treating the disease. Francine McCutchan, Ph.D., a researcher...
Seniors deserve break on pharmacare rates, opposition says
Nova Scotia's opposition parties want seniors to get a break on what they pay into the provincial drug plan.
Malaria 'causes immune system to attack own DNA'
Malaria infection can cause children's immune systems to attack its own DNA, worsening the severity of the disease, a study reveals.
New mousse repairs tooth decay
Scientists have invented a mousse that contains a potent fluoride formula that can not only protect teeth, but repair existing decay too.
Virtual biopsy can tell whether colon polyp is benign without removal
A probe so sensitive that it can tell whether or not a cell living within the human body is veering towards cancer development may revolutionize how future colonoscopies are done,...
Experts from 10 countries develop first evidence-based definition of lifelong premature ejaculation
International experts from ten countries have teamed up to develop the first ever evidence-based definition of lifelong premature ejaculation (PE) in the hope that it will aid future diagnosis, treatment...
Does Patient Outcome Depend On Who They Are Or Where They Go For Care?
Does the success of a procedure depend on how often it is performed at a hospital or by a particular surgeon? Is a patient's access to procedures such as liver...
Increase In Drunk Driving Fatalities Followed Ban On Smoking In Bars
A ban on cigarette smoking in bars is meant to save lives by reducing patrons' exposure to secondhand smoke. But it may actually be having an unintended consequence. By comparing...
Living Heart Chamber 'Organoids' Developed
Researchers at Columbia University have developed tiny functioning heart chambers that exhibit the key characteristics of cardiac pumping action. These modified tissue samples, known as organoids, will enable researchers to...
2 more jails to be tested for asbestos
Two more jails in Nova Scotia will undergo air-quality testing after asbestos was found at the Cape Breton Correctional Facility, prompting some guards to walk off the job last week.
FDA OKs postsurgical drug for hospital use
WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of the drug Entereg (alvimopan) to help restore normal bowel function after surgery.
Feature: Delving into the hearts of immigrants
Being Australian is a complex and passionate issue that cannot be reduced to twenty questions on a citizenship test.