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Monday, May 18, 2015
Why Do Women Have More Strokes Than Men?
Each year, around 55,000 more women than men will have a stroke. Longer lifespans, pregnancies and hormones all contribute to the disparity, as do illnesses that tend to strike women more frequently. An associate professor of neurology at Saint Louis …
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Study Links Post-acute Care Hospital Costs with Lower Survival Rates
Researchers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a working paper online with the National Bureau of Economic Research detailing their wide-scale study on overall survival rates in hospitals …
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Scientists Find New Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease
In study recently published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers uncovered a connection between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, providing further evidence that memory capabilities may be affected by elevated blood sugar. Previous …
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Research Validates Dulled Thinking Effect in Depression and Bipolar Disorder
New research from the University of Michigan has revealed more information regarding reports by depression and bipolar disorder sufferers who experience unexplained dulled-thinking abilities before the onset of their symptoms. Their findings, published …
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Medical Educators Say Ethics Training Needs Updating
To accommodate 21st century ethical concerns and begin resolving discordant approaches to medical ethics training, scholars from leading medical schools from across the U.S. have issued updated education recommendations, published in the journal Academic …
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Light, Not Pain-Killing Drugs Used to Activate Brain’s Opioid Receptors
A groundbreaking new treatment may replace opioid drugs for sufferers of intense pain by combining a light-gathering protein with opioid receptors, in order to activate those pathways using light rather than traditional chemical reactions. Researchers …
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Motion-Tracking MRI Tests Reveal Novel Indication of Stroke Risk in A-fib
In a study recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers from Johns Hopkins University performed sophisticated motion studies of MRI scans to help predict the stroke risk of people with atrial fibrillation (a-fib). …
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Clot Removal Device Results in Dramatically Improved Stroke Outcomes
New research indicates that stroke victims given clot-dissolving drugs upon initial treatment, whose obstructing blood clots were physically removed using a stent retriever device (along with drug treatments) showed highly reduced long-term disability …
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Fat Signals Control Energy Levels in the Brain
According to new research conducted by the Washington University School of Medicine, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, an enzyme secreted by the body’s fat tissue may control energy levels in the brain. The findings suggest that the body’ …
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Monday, May 11, 2015
Popular Electric Brain-stimulation Method Detrimental to IQ Scores
In response to the increasingly popular practice of using low-voltage electric currents for brain stimulation via home-made or commercially sold devices, researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have tested the efficiency …
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