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NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Surgeons Are First in NYC Area to Implant Total Artificial Heart
Surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center performed the first Total Artificial Heart implant in the New York City area to replace a patient's dying heart.
HIV drug reduces graft-versus-host disease in stem cell transplant patients
An HIV drug that redirects immune cell traffic appears to significantly reduce the dangerous complication graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in blood cancer patients following allogeneic stem cell transplantation (ASCT), according to...
Gene therapy helps patients with hemophilia B
(Medical Xpress) -- An experimental gene therapy technique boosted the production of a vital blood clotting factor in six people with hemophilia B, according to new research supported by the...
B cell receptor inhibitor causes chronic lymphocytic leukemia remission
A new, targeted approach to treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia has produced durable remissions in a Phase I/II clinical trial for patients with relapsed or resistant disease, investigators report...
Scar findings could lead to new therapies
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine report that they have identified the molecular pathway through which physical force contributes to scarring in mice. “Our study exposes...
Health Squeeze: UK's free health care under threat
(AP) -- When David Evans needed a hernia operation, the 69-year-old farmer became so alarmed by the long wait that he used an ultrasound machine for pregnant sheep on...
OPINION: Monday’s medical myth: you can’t mix antibiotics with alcohol
There is no evidence of harm from moderate alcohol intake when taking most antibiotics, Michael Vagg writes.
Study may help physicians determine how patients will respond to immunomodulator therapy for multiple myeloma
Research on the same protein that was a primary mediator of the birth defects caused by thalidomide now holds hope in the battle against multiple myeloma, new research suggests.
JRRD Releases Volume 48, Issue 9
A multi-topic issue of 10 articles on complementary medicine, hand-cycling biomechanics, prosthetic ankles, intelligent wheelchair design, and physical activity interventions, and more.
Penn Nursing Autism Research Tops in TIME
TIME magazine has named Penn Nursing's pioneering research on autism and low birthweight one of the "Top 10 New Findings in Parenting" of 2011. In October, Penn Nursing Professor Jennifer...
Rush University Medical Center Named a Top Hospital for Quality, Safety and Efficiency by the Leapfrog Group
For the third time, Rush University Medical Center has been named one of the top hospitals in the country by the Leapfrog Group, a national not-for-profit organization that promotes health...
Mammography Study in BMJ Flawed: Discredited Data Used
Discredited and obsolete data in Raftery and Chorozoglou, published in the Dec. 8 British Medical Journal, underestimated lives saved by mammography by half. Authors equated false positives to...
National Youth Poverty Poll Ranks Lack of Jobs as #1 Cause of Poverty
American young people say that the top two causes of poverty are a lack of jobs (82.8 percent) followed by a lack of health insurance (69.4 percent) according to a...
SABCS: Loss of RB in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Associated with Favorable Clinical Outcome
Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have shown that loss of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene (RB) in triple negative breast cancer patients...
When to help a patient die
Legal analysts at a Harvard Medical School (HMS) forum differed during a discussion Thursday evening on whether a law allowing death with dignity or assisted suicide for terminally ill patients is right for...
Can A Man Give Birth? Sure, To Kidney Stones.
If detective games were my passion, I would choose medical diagnosis over FBI investigations. A single symptom can originate from a variety of causes. Combination of symptoms narrow the range...
Dangerous Results: Publish Or Not?
Two recent studies have sparked some controversy over whether or not they should be published. They are focused on the avian flu virus, H5N1 (see figure 1). The virus is...
In Iraq war, a revolution in battlefield medicine
The Iraq war ushered in dramatic advances in battlefield medicine, with the effects of homemade bombs leading the US military to radically change how it treats wounded soldiers.
Cancer 'timebomb' fear linked to chemical used in paint and dye industry
Lawyers point to rise in people with bladder cancer and say victims may not be aware of risk from past employmentLawyers are warning of a "ticking timebomb" as workers exposed to carcinogenic...
Stem cells used to produce blood platelets
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time created blood platelet cells by reprogramming stem cells derived from adult cells, offering the potential for a renewable supply of...
The plight of adolescents, worldwide
Focusing on fulfilling the human rights of children and adolescents worldwide would yield widespread economic benefits, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the head of the international child welfare agency UNICEF said Thursday. Harvard’s...
Op-Ed Contributor: Medical Marijuana and the Memory of One High Day
The blessings of a bong: a single gorgeous meal after weeks of chemotherapy and nausea.
Positive Charges Increase Protein’s Appetite Boost
Biochemistry: Small tweaks to the agouti-related protein could help cancer and AIDS patients gain weight
Tropical disease experts report missed opportunity to transform global HIV/AIDS fight
Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts are missing a major opportunity to significantly improve health conditions in poor countries by simply adding low-cost care for the many other chronic and...
Abortion doesn't raise mental illness risk, U.K. study says
Abortion does not increase a woman's chance of developing mental health problems, according to the largest study ever to investigate the issue.
How Wrong Can Lubos Be ?
Every once in a while Lubos pleases with one of his straight-leg tackles, as he deals with stuff he shouldn't be a-messing with (I am still giggling at an incident...
What medicine can you give asthmatic children?
This month, the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics published an article by pediatric pulmonologist, Dr. John T. McBride, in which he recommends that asthmatic children, and those with...
Contagion: Controversy Erupts over Man-Made Pandemic Avian Flu Virus
It’s a rare kind of research that incites a frenzied panic before it’s even published. But it’s flu season, and influenza science has a way of causing a stir this...