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New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

(European Society of Cardiology) Patients with atrial fibrillation who receive antithrombotic management according to ESC guidelines have better outcomes than those who do not, according to one year follow up results fro...

(European Society of Cardiology) Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been linked to a 30 percent lower risk of nursing home admission and brain damage in survivors of cardiac arrest outside hospital in rese...

(European Society of Cardiology) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be conducted for at least 35 minutes, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr. Yoshikazu ...

(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Results of a clinical trial seem to show the first effective treatment for the negative symptoms -- withdrawal, lack of emotion, and apathy -- associated with schizophrenia. ...

(European Society of Cardiology) Cold weather is associated with a higher risk of severe heart attack, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr. Shuangbo Liu, adult cardiology resident at the Universit...

(European Society of Cardiology) Cold weather is associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr. Tze-Fan Chao, cardiolo...

(European Society of Cardiology) Efforts to improve automated external defibrillator (AED) usage increase bystander defibrillation in public places but not at home, reveals a study of more than 25 000 cardiac arrest pati...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 800,000 Americans die each year from heart disease and stroke. Acute coronary syndrome, which includes heart ...

(European Society of Cardiology) Ezetimibe reduces cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes and a recent acute coronary syndrome, according to a subgroup analysis of the IMPROVE-IT trial presented at ESC Congress ...

(University College Dublin) Scientists have identified a new protein (C5orf30) which regulates the severity of tissue damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation, pain, stiffness...

(European Society of Cardiology) The impact of atrial fibrillation on ischemic stroke risk in elderly patients is eliminated with multiple risk factors, according to an 11-year study in more than 425,000 patients present...

(European Society of Cardiology) Adherence to the oral anticoagulant apixaban among patients with atrial fibrillation was no better for those who received an educational program compared to those who did not, results of ...

(European Society of Cardiology) In patients with a large myocardical infarction, pacing, with the left ventricular lead placed in the area of the lesion (peri-infarct) did not prevent further enlargement of the heart (r...

(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Researchers using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) have found that even first-episode psychotic patients process information differently from a control group. To ...

(European Society of Cardiology) Patients arriving at the emergency department with chest pain suggestive of acute myocardial infarction can be triaged more quickly and more safely using a new rapid assay with refined cu...

(European Society of Cardiology) Recruitment of leukocytes is a hallmark of stent thrombosis, according to results from the PRESTIGE study presented today at ESC Congress and published in European Heart Journal. The find...

(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Brain imaging shows that testosterone therapy given as part of sex reassignment changes the brain structures and the pathway associated with speech and verbal fluency. This r...

(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) An international group of researchers have found that food craving activates different brain networks between obese and normal weight patients. This indicates that the tenden...

(European Society of Cardiology) In patients with chronic ischemic heart disease, a small left ventricle with thick walls, is the strongest predictor of morphologic remodelling, which is generally considered a first step...