Clinical Research

Rate And Outcomes Of Of Aortic Valve Replacement Up

Chicago – Jose Augusto Barreto-Filho, M.D., Ph.D., of the Federal University of Sergipe and the Clinica e Hospital Sao Lucas, Sergipe, Brazil, and colleagues assessed procedure rates and outcomes of surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) among 82,755,924 ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2013 - 1:34pm

Retroviruses: New Tales Told By Old Infections

Retroviruses are important pathogens capable of crossing species barriers to infect new hosts, but knowledge of their evolutionary history is limited. By mapping endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), retroviruses whose genes have become part of the host organis ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2013 - 1:26pm

Heart Attacks Are Not Different For Genders

Using chest pain characteristics (CPCs) specific to women in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack) in the emergency department does not seem to be supported by the findings of a new study. While about 90 percent of patient ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2013 - 6:12pm

Sex Shop Science? Skin Communicates With, And Affects, Metabolism In The Liver

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The discovery has surprised the scientists, and they say that it may help our understanding of how skin diseases can affect the r ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2013 - 12:03pm

Hydrogel Scaffold Goes From Liquid To Bone

A hydrogel scaffold for craniofacial bone tissue regeneration starts as a liquid and then solidifies into a gel in the body and liquefies again for removal.  The material is a soluble liquid at room temperature that can be injected to the point of need. A ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2013 - 5:13pm

Worm Eggs, Hot Baths- Two Ideas For Treating High-Functioning Autism

Approximately 1 in 88 children are diagnosed as being somewhere on the autism spectrum. One hypothesis about autism is that a hyperactive immune system results in elevated levels of inflammation and may contribute to the disorder. Approximately one third ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2013 - 11:33am

Reducing Post-Op Pain In Kids After High-Risk Surgery

A new technique will significantly decrease pain for children following high-risk urology surgeries, according to a paper in the Journal of Pediatric Urology. The research team evaluated continuous infusion of local anesthesia using the ON-Q pain relief s ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2013 - 3:35pm

If Sugar Doesn't Kill You, Artificial Sweeteners Will- Unless They Won't

Each year, someone writes a book scaring people about food and that gets covered in the New York Times and then a whole rash of junk science studies get produced affirming exactly what the book said. This has been  a tradition since the 1960s, when Rachel ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2013 - 11:08am

Weight Loss Is Racist

A paper in the International Journal of Obesity has found that even weight loss can be discriminatory;  African-American women may need to eat less or exercise more than European-American women to lose the same amount of weight. Some studies have suggeste ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2013 - 3:56pm

A Wrong Molecular Turn For Amyloid Fibrils Leads Down The Road To Type 2 Diabetes

Determining how proteins misfold to create the tissue-damaging structures that lead to type 2 diabetes is complicated. These amyloid fibrils are also implicated in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and in prion di ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2013 - 5:26pm