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Culprit found for increased stroke injury with diabetes

Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and there are no effective treatments to control such bleeding. Moreover, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 23, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles increase survival after blood loss

In an advance that could improve battlefield and trauma care, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have used tiny particles called nanoparticles to improve survival after life-threatening ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New ways to disarm deadly South American hemorrhagic fever viruses

New World hemorrhagic fevers are emerging infectious diseases found in South America that can cause terrible, Ebola-like symptoms. Current treatments are expensive and only partially effective.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study says therapeutics for trauma patients may not be effective due to an infection

A Kansas State University study aimed at alleviating intestinal damage in trauma patients digressed to an important finding that could affect medication given to the individuals.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New arenavirus discovered as cause of hemorrhagic fever outbreak in South Africa and Zambia

Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases of National Health Laboratory Service (NICD-NHLS), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

America's most distressed areas threatened by emerging infections of poverty

Neglected infections of poverty are the latest threat plaguing the poorest people living in the Gulf Coast states and in Washington, D.C., according to Dr. Peter Hotez, Distinguished Research Professor and Chair of the Department ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US panel rejects Avastin for breast cancer use

An expert panel urged the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to strip the Roche-made drug Avastin of its label for use against breast cancer because it is neither safe nor effective.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA panel: Revoke drug's breast cancer approval

(AP) -- A panel of cancer experts has ruled for a second time that Avastin, the best-selling cancer drug in the world, should no longer be used in breast cancer patients, clearing the way for the government to remove its ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Too many blood transfusions? New standards urged

(AP) -- Check into the hospital and you may get a blood transfusion you didn't really need.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study raises safety concerns about experimental cancer approach

A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has raised safety concerns about an investigational approach to treating cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Statin risks may outweigh benefits for patients with a history of brain hemorrhage

A computer decision model suggests that for patients with a history of bleeding within the brain, the risk of recurrence associated with statin treatment may outweigh the benefit of the drug in preventing cardiovascular disease, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Dolphins' 'remarkable' recovery from injury offers important insights for human healing

A Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) scientist who has previously discovered antimicrobial compounds in the skin of frogs and in the dogfish shark has now turned his attention to the remarkable wound healing abilities ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Small molecules may prevent ebola infection

Ebola, a virus that causes deadly hemorrhagic fever in humans, has no known cure or vaccine. But a new study by University of Illinois at Chicago scientists has uncovered a family of small molecules which appear to bind to ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hemorrhagic fever claims 3 lives in western India

(AP) -- An Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever has killed three people in western India and dozens of doctors will screen a community of about 16,000 people in efforts to contain the disease, a state health minister said Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Advanced macular degeneration is associated with an increased risk

Older people with late-stage, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) appear to be at increased risk of brain hemorrhage (bleeding stroke), but not stroke caused by brain infarction (blood clot), according to research presented ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bleeding

Bleeding, technically known as hemorrhaging or haemorrhaging (see American and British spelling differences) is the loss of blood or blood escape from the circulatory system. Bleeding can occur internally, where blood leaks from blood vessels inside the body or externally, either through a natural opening such as the vagina, mouth, nose, ear or anus, or through a break in the skin. Desanguination is a massive blood loss, and the complete loss of blood is referred to as exsanguination. Typically, a healthy person can endure a loss of 10–15% of the total blood volume without serious medical difficulties, and blood donation typically takes 8–10% of the donor's blood volume.

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