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Researchers find pet kidney injuries are similar to human kidney injuries

When evaluating early kidney injuries in people, doctors monitor blood level increases of creatinine, a waste product of muscle breakdown, to understand the severity of the injury. Creatinine is filtered by the kidneys, and ...

Biology / Other

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

Annual sonograms are needed to verify correct IUD position, obstetricians say

A retrospective study of women who became pregnant while using intrauterine devices shows that more than half of the IUDs were malpositioned.

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Medically underserved girls receive less frequent evaluation for short stature

Primary care doctors are less likely to refer short girls than short boys for diagnostic testing that can reveal underlying medical reasons for their short stature, according to a new study of an urban pediatric population ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stroke incidence higher among patients with certain type of retinal vascular disease

Patients with a disease known as retinal vein occlusion (RVO) have a significantly higher incidence of stroke when compared with persons who do not have RVO, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Portable, less costly peritoneal dialysis shows no additional catheter risk factors

Patients with end-stage renal disease who opt for peritoneal dialysis experience no greater risk of catheter infection than those who undergo hemodialysis, a retrospective study at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study explores ability of professional dancers to return to their career after hip arthroscopy

A new study has identified factors that predict the ability of a professional dancer to return to professional performance after hip arthroscopy surgery. The study by Hospital for Special Surgery investigators will be presented ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Estrogen linked with lower dementia risk when taken in middle age, higher risk later in life

Estrogen therapy taken around the time of menopause was associated with a lowered risk of dementia in old age, but when taken in late life was linked with an increased dementia risk, according to a study led by a physician ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds twenty percent of children with MS don't respond to first-line treatment

Researchers from the National Network of Pediatric MS Centers of Excellence, in the first retrospective study of the response of children with multiple sclerosis to standard, or first-line, therapies, found that one-fifth ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cancer risk from medical radiation may have been overestimated: researcher

The risk of developing radiation-induced cancer from computed tomography (CT) may be lower than previously thought, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Surgical instruments left in children rarely fatal, but dangerous

Surgical items, such as sponges and small instruments, left in the bodies of children who undergo surgery are quite uncommon and rarely fatal but decidedly dangerous and expensive mistakes, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Race may influence uterine cancer recurrence, despite treatment

African Americans are more likely to have a recurrence of uterine cancer despite undergoing a total hysterectomy or a hysterectomy followed by radiation therapy, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers find pathway that drives spread of pediatric bone cancer in preclinical studies

Researchers have identified an important signaling pathway that, when blocked, significantly decreases the spread of pediatric bone cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most Italian breast cancer patients older and diagnosed very early

A study of breast cancer in Italian women has found that more than 70% of those affected by the disease are over the age of 50 years, and the disease is identified before it has spread to the lymph nodes in more than 60% ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Race not root of disparity in lung cancer between whites and blacks

Race itself was not a prognostic factor of overall survival among black patients with lung cancer, according to data from a retrospective study presented at the Third AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds beta blockers reduce risk of death after surgery

Surgical patients with known heart disease risks who are given beta blockers around the time of surgery have a significantly reduced risk of post-operative death compared with patients not given beta blockers, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0