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The swine flu pandemic
A special issue of Deutsches Aerzteblatt International contains the first scientific presentation of clinical experience with the novel influenza A virus (H1N1/09) in the German-speaking countries since the start of...
Chances of surviving cardiac arrest at home or work unchanged in 30 years
The chance of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has not improved since the 1950s, according to a new article. The analysis shows only 7.6 percent of victims survive an out-of-hospital...
Fast treatment ups heart attack survival
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows dramatic improvement in heart attack victims by employing new time-saving strategies in coordinating their emergency care.
Scientists get up close to bacteria's toxic pumps
Scientists are building a clearer image of the machinery employed by bacteria to spread antibiotic resistance or cause diseases such as whooping cough, peptic stomach ulcers and legionnaires' disease...
Wistar-led research team discovers genetic pattern that indicates early-stage lung cancer
Wistar Institute researchers and collaborators from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University have identified immune system markers in the blood which indicate early-stage lung tumours in people at...
Research sheds new light on epilepsy
Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease...
Heavy metal paradox could point toward new therapy for Lou Gehrig's disease
New discoveries have been made about how an elevated level of lead, which is a neurotoxic heavy metal, can slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease...
Naked mole rats may hold clues to surviving stroke
Blind, nearly hairless, and looking something like toothy, plump, pink fingers, naked mole rats may rank among nature's most maligned creatures, but their unusual physiology endears them to scientists...
Stroke and heart disease trigger revealed in new research
Scientists have identified the trigger that leads to the arteries becoming damaged in the disease atherosclerosis, which causes heart attacks and strokes, in research published today in the journal Circulation....
Clinical trials launched for treating most aggressive brain tumor with personalized cell vaccines
Researchers have launched a series of clinical trials in order to assess the efficacy of an immunotherapy treatment. This approach involves the application of personalized vaccines -- produced from healthy...
Sugary cola drinks linked to higher risk of gestational diabetes
Researchers have found for the first time that drinking more than 5 servings of sugar- sweetened cola a week prior to pregnancy appears to significantly elevate the risk of developing...
Fall Wave of Swine Flu Has Peaked, Data Confirm
New swine flu infections continue to drop across the United States, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vital Signs: Patterns: Teaming Up to Control High Blood Pressure
Researchers at the University of Iowa found that patients benefited when a pharmacist was more involved in their care.
Vital Signs: Regimens: Cancer Concerns in Big Doses of Folic Acid
Safety issues are raised about the fortifying of grains and cereals.
Vital Signs: Prognosis: Numbers Rise in a Diabetes Forecast
The number of those with the disease is expected to double, and costs will rise as patients live longer, a new analysis said.
The Doctors Were Real, the Patients Undercover
With the markings of a television detective show, three undercover observers got themselves admitted as patients to a locked psychiatric ward to investigate conditions.
We May Be Born With an Urge to Help
Biologists are forming a better view of humankind than the traditional opinions of it as warlike and selfish.
Tailor-made HIV/AIDS treatment possible
MONTREAL, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Canadian scientists say they've developed a new treatment for the human immunodeficiency virus that has successfully passed its first clinical trial.
Montreal Heart Institute performs its first implant of new prosthesis for cardiac arrhythmia
A multidisciplinary team from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), which is affiliated to the Université de Montréal, performed its first catheter implantation of a new prosthesis (Amptlazer Cardiac Plug) closing...
Europe's device therapy use for heart failure doubles 2004-2008, some countries have low uptake
The use of implantable devices for the treatment of heart failure increased "enormously" in Europe between the years 2004 and 2008, but there still remain large differences between countries, according...
Choosing Irving over cancer patients shameful: NDP
The P.E.I. government has its priorities all wrong in providing funding to train employees of Cavendish Farms rather than pay for a cancer drug, says NDP Leader James Rodd.
Dramatic variations in cancer survival rates shock charities
Lung cancer patients in Herefordshire three times more likely to die within a year than those in Kensington and ChelseaThe country's biggest cancer charity has expressed shock at government figures revealing huge variations...
Favorite Holiday Foods Activate Fat Storing Genes, Study Shows
Before you eat that next slice of pecan pie or second serving of mashed potatoes at Christmas dinner this year, you may want to think twice; those extra helpings could...
Lipid assessment in vascular disease can be simplified, without the need to fast, findings suggest
Lipid assessment in vascular disease can be simplified by measuring either total and HDL cholesterol levels or apolipoproteins, without the need to fast and without regard to triglyceride levels, according...
Quarter of a million children in England at risk of skin cancer from sunbeds
An estimated quarter of a million 11- to 17-year-olds in England are being put at increased risk of developing malignant melanoma by using sunbeds, warn researchers.
Immune cells that prevent development of asthma identified
Asthma is inhibited by regulatory macrophages, a cell population never previously described.
Physical therapy good for microdiskectomy
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- UCLA researchers say patients undergoing lumbar disk herniation surgery enjoy significant function improvement after an intensive physical therapy program.
N.B. apologizes for H1N1 vaccination 'bedlam'
New Brunswick's deputy chief medical officer of health is apologizing for what he describes as the bedlam that surrounded the H1N1 vaccine rollout in October.