Friday, November 11th, 2011
A new report by the Institute of Medicine calls for more oversight by public and private healthcare facilities in terms of their handling of patient data. It recommends that The Secretary of The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publish a plan within 12 months to minimize patient ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
A study published this month in the journal Science Translational Medicine explains a new and potentially revolutionary approach to weight loss, a drug called Adipotide, that basically reduces the blood supply specifically to fat cells, causing them to simply wither away. Standard approaches usually involve trying to increase metabolism and ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Patients who have had a mini-stroke to not appear to have a reduced risk of further strokes if they undergo EC-IC bypass surgery, a procedure aimed at improving blood flow in the carotid artery, researchers from University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, reported in JAMA (Journal of ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
A small study found that male children with autism had larger brain weights and 67% more prefrontal brain neurons than children without autism, scientists from the NIH-UCSD School of Medicine Autism Center of Excellence, La Jolla, Calif., reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). The small preliminary study ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Although children are not buying sugary drinks at school because of state bans, their overall consumption of such beverages does not seem to have dropped, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine after carrying out a study involving nearly seven thousand ...
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