Archive: 28/11/2017

Care for caregivers

(HealthDay)—Many of us will care for a parent at some point in our lives. If you're shopping or cooking for Mom or taking Dad to doctor visits, you're already a caregiver.

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Sniffing out the best allergy treatment

(HealthDay)—Seasonal allergies make life miserable for millions of Americans.

Nov 28, 2017

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Beating heart patch is large enough to repair the human heart

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. The advance takes a major ...

Nov 28, 2017

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Severity of post-operative delirium relates to severity of cognitive decline

Researchers from the Harvard affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research (IFAR), in collaboration with scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Brown University, ...

Nov 28, 2017

Pay-for-performance fails to perform

A prototype Medicare program designed to improve value of care by paying more to physicians who perform better on measures of health care quality and spending has failed to deliver on its central promise and, in the process, ...

Nov 28, 2017

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Expression of certain genes may be key to more youthful looking skin

Some individuals' skin appears more youthful than their chronologic age. Although many people try to achieve this with creams, lotions, injections, and surgeries, new research published in the Journal of the American Academy ...

Nov 28, 2017

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Critical link between obesity and diabetes has been identified

UT Southwestern researchers have identified a major mechanism by which obesity causes type 2 diabetes, which is a common complication of being overweight that afflicts more than 30 million Americans and over 400 million ...

Nov 28, 2017

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This 'sweet spot' could improve melanoma diagnosis

Too much, too little, just right. It might seem like a line from "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," but actually describes an important finding from researchers in Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer ...

Nov 28, 2017

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Digital eye scan provides accurate picture of a person's general health

Personalized medicine or "precision medicine" is the most significant trend in 21st century medicine. "It's all about the right treatment for the right patient at the right time," says Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Head of MedUni ...

Nov 28, 2017

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Molecular profiling of melanoma tumours explains differences in survival after T cell therapy

The more times metastasised melanoma has mutated and the patient's immune system has been activated against the tumour – the better the chances of survival after immunotherapy. This is what emerges from a research collaboration ...

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