Sep 30
Health & Medicine Reference The study based in France involved 349 children with MS and 2,941 children without the disease. The children were all under the age of 16. A total of 24.4 percent of the children with MS were vaccinated for hepatitis B in the three years before the study, compared to 27.3 percent for the ...
Sep 30
Health & Medicine Science & Society Reference “It’s not like the viruses are smart and sit back and say, 'How can I change this year?'” explains Stephen Aronoff, M.D., chair and professor of pediatrics at Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital. “We’re just talking about random mutational events and when you consider the infinite number ...
Sep 30
Health & Medicine Reference The study recently appeared online in Nature Medicine. “We’ve used a model that closely mimics clinical disease,” says first author Robert L. Wilensky, MD, Director of Experimental Interventional Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at the Penn Cardiovascular Institute. “The study shows that darapladib is useful in reducing atherosclerosis but more importantly those blockages ...
Sep 30
Health & Medicine Science & Society Reference Results show that on days when hospitals face high demand, patients are discharged earlier than expected when compared to those discharged on days when demand is low. Rajiv Sharma, Miron Stano, and Renu Gehring used Oregon hospital data to analyze how hospital constraint can affect admission decisions and discharge ...
Sep 30
Health & Medicine Reference "This kind of information provides a target for the production of drugs against cancer," said Dr. Bert O'Malley, chair of molecular and cellular biology at BCM. "One can already find drugs that stimulate or inhibit phosphatases in other disease processes." O'Malley and his colleagues had already determined that SRC-3 is an oncogene or ...