News tagged with male physicians

The drug treatment of heart failure is influenced by the gender of the patient and of the physician

While the treatment of heart failure has improved over the past two decades, a new study reported in the European Journal of Heart Failure finds that "the use of evidence-based treatments appears to be imbalanced according to the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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New software tool provides unprecedented searches of sound, from musical riffs to gunshots

Audio engineers have developed a novel artificial intelligence system for understanding and indexing sound, a unique tool for both finding and matching previously un-labeled audio files.

Technology / Software

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hospital tests reveal the secrets of an Egyptian mummy

An ancient Egyptian mummy has had quite an afterlife, traveling more than 6,000 miles, spending six decades in private hands, and finally, in 1989, finding a home at the World Heritage Museum (now the Spurlock ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

States stop circumcisions funds amid budget crisis

(AP) -- A nationwide debate about circumcisions for newborn boys, combined with cash-strapped public health budgets, has Colorado taking sides with 17 other states that no longer fund Medicaid coverage of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Millions of girls lost to selective abortion in India: study

Sex selection of foetuses in India has led to 7.1 million fewer girls than boys up to age six, a gender gap that has widened by more than a million in a decade, according to a study released Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sudden cardiac death affects about 1 in 44,000 NCAA athletes a year

About one in 44,000 National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes has sudden cardiac death each year, according to a new study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

To better detect heart transplant rejections, scientists test for traces of donor's genome

Heart transplant recipients and their physicians are likely more concerned with the function of the donated organ than with the donor's DNA sequences that tag along in the new, healthy tissue. However, researchers at the ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ambulatory monitoring reveals many patients have 'white coat' hypertension

A third of patients thought to have resistant hypertension had "white coat" hypertension during 24-hour ambulatory monitoring, in a large study reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Inclusion of falls history shown to enhance accuracy of fracture risk assessment models

Researchers from the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit in Southampton, UK, have presented a new study that shows how the inclusion of falls history, in addition to clinical risk factors (CRFs) and bone mineral density (BMD) ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mini-stroke doubles risk of heart attack

Patients who have suffered a "mini stroke" are at twice the risk of heart attack than the general population, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgery without external scars is gaining traction

When Patricia Manrique was told she needed her gallbladder removed she immediately thought about the classroom full of children who rely on her to teach them tap and ballet each day. The Chicago Park District physical instructor ...

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created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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