Clotting protein hardens aging hearts: Researchers link von Willebrand factor to heart-valve calcium deposits
Heart valves calcify over time, and Rice University scientists are beginning to understand why.
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Oxygen levels in tumours affect response to treatment
(Medical Xpress)—The genetic make-up of a patient's tumour could be used to personalise their treatment, and help to decide whether they would benefit from receiving additional drugs as part of their radiotherapy programme, ...
Nov 7, 2013
Problems continue with inappropriate prescription of antipsychotic drugs
Low-dose, antipsychotic medications are continuing to be widely prescribed, a new analysis suggests, even though it's likely many of the prescriptions are for conditions where there's weak evidence of their effectiveness ...
Nov 7, 2013
Workplace discrimination compromises health of sexual minorities
As Congress debates a bill that would end employment discrimination based on sexual orientation—perhaps as early as this week—University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers offer further evidence of workplace ...
Nov 7, 2013
Getting to grips with seizure prediction
A device that could predict when a person with epilepsy might next have a seizure is one step closer to reality thanks to the development of software by researchers in the USA. Details are to be published in a forthcoming ...
Nov 7, 2013
Research identifies potential link between macrophage response and chronic inflammatory disease
Tiny cells which have the ability to trigger the body's immune responses could be crucial to research into a number of chronic medical conditions, scientists have suggested.
Nov 7, 2013
Research studies the performance of blood thinners in the elderly
(Medical Xpress)—The line between effective and harmful is a thin one when it comes to the choice of blood thinners in seniors, says new research by Yan Xu, a third year undergraduate medical student at Queen's, Dr. Ana ...
Nov 7, 2013
