News tagged with jugular veins

Worldwide interest as Canada drug program in court

(AP) -- The woman stands close to a mirror fingering her throat. Then, sweeping back a mane of red hair, she injects heroin into her jugular vein. A nurse keeps an eye on her from behind.

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Physician urges changes in diagnosis for sore throat in young adults

New analysis from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) suggests that physicians need to re-think their diagnosis and treatment of sore throat, or pharyngitis, in adolescents and young adults to consider a more newly ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Distinctive gene expression in brains of relapsing heroin-addicted rats

A group of genes whose expression is significantly altered following exposure to drug paraphernalia after an enforced 'cold-turkey' period have been identified. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience studie ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's cooling strategy revealed

Insulated in a luxuriously thick winter coat, reindeer are perfectly prepared for the gripping cold of an Arctic winter. But the pelt doesn't just keep the cold out, it keeps the warmth in too: which is fine when the animals ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Interventional radiologists advance MS research: Vein-opening treatment safe

Understanding that angioplasty -- a medical treatment used by interventional radiologists to widen the veins in the neck and chest to improve blood flow -- is safe may encourage additional studies for its use as a treatment ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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

Doctors testing warm, beating hearts in transplant

(AP) -- Andrea Ybarra's donated heart was beating rhythmically by the time she awoke from the grogginess of her surgery.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New studies question vascular multiple sclerosis hypothesis and treatment

Two important new studies challenge the controversial hypothesis that venous congestion -- chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) -- contributes to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS). This theory has resulted ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intriguing early results for device that reshapes enlarged, leaky heart valve

An innovative device that acts like a belt to reshape an enlarged, leaky heart valve is providing a minimally invasive treatment option for patients who are too sick for open-heart surgery. According to a Late-Breaking Clinical ...

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created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study indicates some MRSA infections in ICU patients have been decreasing in recent years

In contrast to the perception that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections associated with use of a catheter is an increasing problem in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, the incidence ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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