News tagged with blood formation
Genetic difference in staph offers clues as to why some patients get infections from cardiac implants
New research suggests that some patients develop a potentially deadly blood infection from their implanted cardiac devices because bacterial cells in their bodies have gene mutations that allow them to stick ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Final data show experimental agent better than aspirin at preventing stroke
A new anti-clotting agent is vastly superior to aspirin at reducing stroke risk (1.6 percent per year versus 3.6 percent per year) in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients unable to take stronger drugs, according to final data ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Researchers develop safer way to make induced pluripotent stem cells
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a better way to create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells -- adult cells reprogrammed with the properties of embryonic stem cells -- from a small blood sample. This new method, described ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Mexican-Americans with heart rhythm disorder have increased risk for second stroke
Mexican-American stroke survivors with a heart rhythm disorder have more than twice the risk for another stroke compared to non-Hispanic whites, according to a study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Improvement in prediction of blood clots in cancer patients
For cancer patients, who have an increased risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE) due to a hyperactive blood coagulation system, there is now an enhanced risk model to predict their chance of developing blood clots, ...
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Get with the Guidelines -- Stroke program could be global model
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke program could be a foundation for improving stroke care globally, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the Am ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 30, 2010 |
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They shall not pass! Fighting infections with blood clots
A research team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich has shown that clot formation within small blood vessels helps in the fight against pathogenic microbes. At the molecular level, clot formation turns out to be ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Are teen binge drinkers risking future osteoporosis?
Binge-drinking teenagers may be putting themselves at risk for future osteoporosis and bone fractures, according to researchers at Loyola University Health System.
Jul 13, 2010 |
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CT angiography may be unnecessary in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism
A new study suggests that computed tomography (CT) angiography might be unnecessary in many patients suspected of having pulmonary embolism (PE), based on the results of risk assessment analysis. PE risk assessment could ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Mechanism links abnormal blood clots with Alzheimer's disease
New research suggests that abnormalities in the process of blood clot formation may contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study, published by Cell Press in the June 10 issue of the journal Neuron, advanc ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Scientists identify molecules that ensure red blood cell production
(PhysOrg.com) -- Red blood cells, the delivery men that take oxygen to cells all around the body, have short lives. To keep enough of them in circulation, the human body produces around 2 million of these ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 31, 2010 |
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Researchers find first inherited prostate cancer genetic mutation in African-American men
Shahriar Koochekpour, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, led research that has discovered, for the first ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Immune memory formation seen in early stages of viral infection
In an acute viral infection, most of the white blood cells known as T cells differentiate into cells that fight the virus and die off in the process. But a few of these "effector" T cells survive and become memory T cells, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Moderate weight loss in obese people improves heart function
Obese patients who lost a moderate amount of weight by eating less and exercising more improved their cardiovascular health, says a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Dec 11, 2009 |
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New tool for helping pediatric heart surgery
A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs. It is the basis of a new tool that may help ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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