Clinical Research

AB Blood Type And Infant Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Premature infants suffer a life-threatening destruction of intestinal tissue called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) have gotten a new data point for researchers to examine: Preemies with the AB blood type who develop NEC are nearly three times as likely to ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2011 - 8:02am

Solving Insomnia Without Drugs

BMC Neurology has published the results of the HYPNOS I clinical trial demonstrating the sedative action of the Cefaly medical device (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22035386). The results show, in a statistically highly significant manner using four ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2011 - 10:42am

Full Face Transplantation: The Process Behind It

In March 2011, a surgical team at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) performed the first full face transplantation (FFT) in the United States and went on to complete a total of three FFTs this year. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, res ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2011 - 8:00am

Alcohol For A Longer Life?

Forget starving yourself or kooky ideas like a lettuce diet for increased longevity- the answer to living longer may be found in a bottle of alcohol.  Minuscule amounts of ethanol, the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, has been shown to more th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2012 - 3:36pm

One Way To Fix Medicine- Publish Missing Trial Data

Should researchers be obligated to publish null results?  Should they have to publish all trial data? Missing data  distorts the scientific record, so that clinical decisions cannot be based on the best evidence, and that can harm patients and lead to futi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2012 - 8:00pm

Scars No More: Hearts Regrow After Treatment With Patents' Own Cells

A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute clinical trial showed that treating heart attack patients with an infusion of their own heart-derived cells helps damaged hearts re-grow healthy muscle.  Patients who underwent the stem cell procedure demonstrated a significa ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2012 - 9:43pm

ENT Devices Market Outlook & Forecasts For Europe & South America

ReportsnReports adds to its store new market research reports on "ENT Devices Market Outlook to 2018- Diagnostic Devices, Hearing Aid Devices, Hearing Implants and Others" for following geographies / countries: Europe, South&Central America, ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 22 2012 - 2:30am

New Strategies For The United States Clinical Laboratory Market

Clinical laboratory testing includes diagnostic testing that occurs in hospital, private reference, and physician office laboratories. This briefing will provide an overview of industry trends as well as the competitive strategies currently utilized by re ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 19 2012 - 3:00pm

ClinicalTrials.gov Registered Trials Weak When It Comes To Size And Methodology

Clinical studies, the central means by which preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic strategies are evaluated,  that were registered between 2007-2010 were dominated by small, single-center trials and contained significant heterogeneity (different in natur ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2012 - 4:30am

WATCHMAN® Device Shows 75 Percent Reduction In Stroke Risk In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Results Presented at Heart Rhythm Society from ASA Plavix Study Evaluating Boston Scientific Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device  Boston Scientific Corporation announces results from the ASA Plavix (ASAP) Study, which studied the WATCHMAN(R) Left Atrial ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 6 2012 - 2:49pm