NEW YORK, NY — JANUARY 20, 2011 — Results from the PROSPECT clinical trial shed new light on the types of vulnerable plaque that are most likely to cause sudden, unexpected adverse cardiac events, and on the ability to identify them through imag…
“Snoring, sleep apnoea, and obesity-related respiratory difficulties are fairly common disorders that affect a large proportion of the population,” according to Poul Jennum, Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology at the Center for Healthy Ageing at t…
PROVIDENCE, RI — Just as the site for the 2013 America’s Cup has been announced, a study from Rhode Island Hospital highlights that the sport isn’t always smooth sailing. The study was published recently in the journal Wilderness and Environmental…
Danish sleep researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Institute for Health Services Research have examined the socio-economic consequences of the sleep disorder hypersomnia in one of the largest studies of its kind. The sleep disor…
Scientists investigating the allergic reactions that asthmatics suffer towards a common mould have discovered that many people with asthma actually had the mould growing in their own lungs.
The research led by University of Leicester scientists at…
LOS ANGELES (December 8, 2010) — Jeffrey S. Upperman, MD, director of the Trauma Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has co-authored a call to action for filling a significant gap in pediatric public health care and seeks federal over…
CHICAGO — CPR quality is worse during in-hospital cardiac arrests occurring overnight than those that happen during the day, according to a new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study that will be presented at the American Heart Associat…
Breast cancer patients are more likely to have joint pain from taking aromatase inhibitors (AIs) if they have advanced stage cancer, according to a study presented at the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting, held Nov. 7-11, in Atlanta….
More than 30 million people in the United States travel to resource-limited areas of the world each year. This global mobility may contribute to the spread of infectious diseases — such as influenza, measles, and meningitis — and may also put i…
SEATTLE–Primary-care clinicians know teen depression is common, but they’ve lacked a reliable screening test for it. Now researchers at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle Children’s, and Group Health report the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questio…
BOSTON – Researchers have identified an important signaling pathway that, when blocked, significantly decreases the spread of pediatric bone cancer.
In their study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital…
BOSTON — People treated for cancer when they were children have a higher-than-average risk of gastrointestinal problems — some mild, some quite severe — in the years following treatment, according to a study to be presented at the 42nd Cong…