The guidelines will provide authoritative information to health professionals at a time when there is currently great uncertainty amongst GPs on how to treat…
It regulates the automation of our movements and as a result the cerebrum can perform other tasks. However, how the cerebellum performs this task is not clear….
According to a new study at the University of Michigan Health System, obese patients who underwent a procedure called transhiatal esophagectomy primarily for…
A Finnish research group with participants from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the University of Tampere and Nokia Research Center has developed a…
Cases of congenital heart disease (CHD), in both adolescents and adults, have been on the rise for many years. An article in a recent issue of Congenital Heart…
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and American College of Physicians (ACP) today released new clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and…
Septic shock can occur if a patient contracts a bacterial infection after surgery. It is the main cause of mortality in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and has up…
An international study led by Johns Hopkins suggests that the rate of HIV-associated dementia is so high in sub-Saharan Africa that HIV dementia along with…
The researchers summarized findings of their own investigations and extensive foreign experience, medical statistics and data of experiments carried out on…
These detailed images allowed researchers not only to see macrophage activity, but also to determine whether the activity was unstable and likely to trigger a…
Texas researchers believe that they have discovered how to prevent many cases of the most common problem encountered by patients undergoing spine surgery:…
Depression affects 25% of patients with advanced cancer – the stage at which the disease has begun to spread from its original tumour. At this stage,…
A large study published today in the journal Critical Care recommends that clinicians should strictly control calorie intake, start artificial nutrition within…
The research shows that stimulating the molecule CD28 on cells that mediate the immune response, known as T cells, can have an adverse effect if these immune…
The programme generated a substantial amount of new knowledge. Any direct application of this knowledge was not expected, as the programme ran only for a…
The study includes nearly 200 healthy four-year-olds in Göteborg and examines both their eating habits and their life styles. Twenty percent of the children…