Mark Thomas, MD, an assistant professor and transplant surgeon at UC, performed the operation in a 2-year-old boy with liver cancer on May 24 at La Raza…
A current trend in cardiac surgical practice is to work with an actively beating heart, rather than the more usual suppression of heart activity by low…
The authors also examined whether certain chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, played a role in…
Medicine can now prevent a host of diseases with a mere shot of vaccine. Polio and smallpox are almost non-existent, and mumps and chicken pox are rarely seen…
Under some conditions this energy-hungry organ is prone to defects in its energy metabolism that contribute to heart disease, according to research published…
Robert Ménard, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholar, and his postdoctoral fellow, Rogerio Amino, at the Institut Pasteur in…
The investigators found that meth increases expression of a receptor called DC-SIGN, a “virus-attachment factor,” allowing more of the virus to invade the…
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis used rats to validate a “cold shielding” effect of blood flow that they previously…
A group of experts from the UK Latex Allergy Support Group (LASG) Advisory Panel said that these results were significant. ‘For a few people, natural rubber…
Professor Ann Taket has spent two years working with hospital staff on DOROTHEA, a £220,700 programme funded by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity that encourages…
Founded in 2004 by Charles Pither, a former consultant pain specialist at St Thomas’ Hospital London, and John O’Dowd, a former consultant spinal surgeon at…
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a complex mixture of IgG antibodies made from human plasma that contains the pooled antibodies from thousands of people,…
The study was conducted to evaluate the impact of CAD in a non-academic setting, most notably its effect on cancer detection in both screening and diagnostic…
A study published today in the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy reveals that there is a significant genetic component to the occurrence and severity of…
These preliminary results published recently in the Irish Journal of Medical Science are from a research study carried out by a UCD research team headed by Dr…
Epidemiologists have studied two major famines in the 20th century: the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45, which was brought about by the Nazi occupation in World…
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