Posted on February - 10 - 2012
Feb. 13, 2012 — A new stem cell treatment resurrects dead, scarred heart muscle damaged by a recent heart attack.
The finding, just in time for Valentine’s Day, is the clearest evidence yet that literally broken hearts can heal. All that’s needed is a little help from one’s own heart stem cells.
“We have been trying as doctors for centuries to find a treatment that actually reverses heart injury,” Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD, tells WebMD. “That is what we seem to have been able to achieve in this small number of patients. If so, this could change the nature of medicine. We could go to the root of disease and cure it instead of just work around it.”
Marban, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, led the study.
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Posted on February - 08 - 2012
HUNDREDS of Scots are being treated in hospital casualty departments every year after being poisoned by the “silent killer” carbon monoxide, according to new figures.
Until now the toll of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in Scotland had been thought to run to only an average of two deaths a year, often as a result of faulty boilers, heaters or fires. However, new data has revealed around 115 people are also being admitted to hospital annually for treatment. A s
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Posted on January - 21 - 2012
A new study from UC Berkeley has uncovered physical evidence that people who challenge themselves intellectually could be decreasing their risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease, and the clues are visible in their brains.
Just finishing a crossword puzzle can be difficult once Alzheimer’s Disease has set in. But researchers have long suspected that doing similar activities throughout your life-time could help keep the disease at bay. Now a team at UC Berkeley has taken that notion of use it or lose it a step further by studying deposits of amyloid plaque in the brain, which are believed to be linked with Alzheimer’s.
“What this study showed is that it’s not just a matter of this protecting you from the effects of the amyloid, for example,” said Dr.
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Posted on January - 18 - 2012
The UKs National Health Service (NHS) Connecting for Health division recently published a guidance document for how healthcare providers in that country should and shouldnt be using tablet devices. The document is chock-full of warnings about tablet use in healthcare settings, but it also includes some helpful hints for how how CIOs should secure the devices.
The NHS states that tablet devices are more likely to be stolen than traditional IT equipment because of their portability, desirability, and ability to be easily concealed.
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