Friday, October 21st, 2011
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, four common infections seen in health care facilities declined in 2010. The CDC staff detailed the reduction rates of infections throughout U.S. hospitals in a policy summit entitled, "Spreading Success: Encouraging Best Practices in Infection Prevention" at the National Journal in ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Middle-aged females with restless legs syndrome (RLS) have a 6% to 41% increased risk of having high blood pressure compared to other women - the risk is linked to the severity and frequency of their RLS, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported in the journal ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
New research presented at the EFIC 'Pain in Europe VII' Congress in Hamburg shows that traumatic experiences, such as war captivity and torture are directly associated with subsequent chronic pain and may inflict a long-term dysfunction of pain inhibitory pathways. A good medicine for victims proves to be education, talking ...
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011
A Phase III study of Afinitor® (everolimus) tablets* in patients with non-cancerous kidney tumors, or angiomyolipomas, associated with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) met its primary endpoint of best overall angiomyolipoma response rate, which includes reduction in kidney tumor size and absence of new tumors. Findings from the trial, known as ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
A new report from scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and their colleagues in centers around the world finds that common variants in 28 regions of DNA are associated with blood pressure in human patients. Of the identified regions, most were completely unsuspected, although some harbor genes suspected of influencing ...
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