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Preventing A Broken Heart: Research Aims To Reduce Scarring From Heart Attacks
A heart damaged by heart attack is usually broken, at least partially, for good. The injury causes excessive scar tissue to form, and this plays a role in permanently keeping...
California health agency ignored law helping impoverished HIV patients, judge rules
The department is ordered to carry out the program that helps provide Medi-Cal coverage for HIV patients. The department says the plan won't work. ...
Prion Infectivity Found In White And Brown Fat Tissues Of Mice
Researchers have found novel prion infectivity in white and brown fat tissues of mice. Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious progressive fatal neurodegenerative diseases which affect...
Mayo Clinic finds it generally safe to withdraw anti-seizure medication in children with epilepsy
A new Mayo Clinic study found that it is generally safe to withdraw anti-seizure medications in children with epilepsy who have achieved seizure-freedom while on the medication. Researchers found that...
New Target Discovered To Treat Epileptic Seizures Following Brain Trauma Or Stroke
New therapies for some forms of epilepsy may soon be possible, thanks to a new discovery by neuroscience researchers. The researchers found that hemichannels -- the same channels the researchers...
Bone Marrow-derived Stem Cells May Offer Novel Therapeutic Option For Skin Disorder
Stem cells derived from bone marrow may serve as a novel therapeutic option to treat a disease called epidermolysis bullosa, a disorder characterized by extraordinarily fragile skin, according to a...
UC Davis researchers exploring gene therapy to fight AIDS
The apparent success of a case in which German doctors cured a man of AIDS using a bone marrow transplant comes as no surprise to Gerhard Bauer, a UC Davis...
Obama hopes to avoid Clinton health care missteps
(AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama and his aides are determined not to repeat the mistakes the Clinton administration made 15 years ago in trying to revamp the nation's health...
FDA: Risks of new asthma drugs vary
(AP) -- The blockbuster asthma drug Advair does not appear to have an increased risk of serious respiratory complications seen with similar new medicines, federal health officials said Friday.
Intervention in infants with cystic fibrosis key to slowing progression
Early detection of lung disease in cystic fibrosis (CF), combined with aggressive treatment in infants, may be the key to controlling the progression of the disease, according to a recent...
M. D. Anderson to hold first international conference on inflammatory breast cancer
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre will hold the first international inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) conference on 6-7 December, to bring together internationally recognised breast cancer clinicians...
Vitreous Humor In The Eye Helps To Establish Time Of Death
Scientists have proposed a new method to estimate the approximate time of death. This is based on the analysis of several substances from the vitreous humor of the eye of...
New Study Identifies Link Between Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers In Healthy Adults
A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease provides an insight into normal, physiological levels and association between proteins involved in development of Alzheimer's disease. A group of scientists...
Foundation to fight hospital downgrade
Some people in West Prince are vowing to fight the P.E.I. government's plan to close down the emergency department during the night at Community Hospital in O'Leary.
Dog Frozen to Wis. Sidewalk; Fat Helped It Survive
An obese dog survived being frozen to a sidewalk overnight.
WHO panel sets melamine limit for food
International experts have set an amount of melamine that people can eat daily without higher health risk, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Amnesia patient H.M., unforgettable to neuroscience, dies at 82
One of the most famous patients in medical science, the man known as H.M., who was instrumental in showing how the brain's memory systems work, has died.
Children who can't feel pain struggle to cope with rare, incurable disorder
These children don't feel pain. They cannot sense cuts, fractures, heat. They don't know not to bite their fingers or poke themselves in the eye.
Can Milk Help Prevent Transplant Rejections?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Could Wisconsin's signature product - milk - hold the key to one of the biggest problems in organ transplantation?
Cancer rates in industrial area no higher than rest of Alberta: study
A study by the Alberta Cancer Board is casting doubt on claims that industrial pollution is causing higher than average rates of cancer in communities east of Edmonton, which are...
Maintaining Brain's Wiring In Aging And Disease
Researchers have discovered that the brain's circuitry survives longer than previously thought in diseases of aging such as Alzheimer's disease.
Easing The Stress Of Trauma
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects as many as one in five of all Americans who survive a harrowing experience like rape, assault, war or terrorism. It has emotionally paralyzed survivors...
Maternal Exposure To Folic Acid Antagonists Increases Risks Of Certain Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
Exposure to folic acid antagonists during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of placenta-mediated adverse outcomes such as preeclampsia, placental abruption, fetal growth restriction or fetal death reports a...
Discovery of a debilitating genetic syndrome
Canadian researchers announce the discovery of MEDNIK Syndrome, a debilitating genetic syndrome. In a study published today in the online version of PLoS Genetics, and in the December edition, a...
No final report on P.E.I. radiology 'errors'
P.E.I.'s Department of Health has completed its review of the work of an Island radiologist on leave due to what was described as an "unacceptably high" error rate, but no...
Drug Combo for Hypertension May Be Safer Than Recommended Alternative
The results of a new study may call into question current national treatment guidelines.
Free mammograms, access to follow-up care for underserved women
At 7:30 AM on 5 December nearly four dozen women living in one of the most rural areas of Virginia will begin arriving for appointments at a state-of-the-art medical facility...
Companies spurn low-tech HIV tests
Cheap, effective tests for patients in Africa too unprofitable.