Medical News
Yellow Fever Vaccine In US To Run Out By Midsummer: CDC
Tech Times - 30 Apr 2017 14:08
CDC officials claimed that Yellow Fever vaccines in the United States would likely run out in July. However, the FDA authorized import of Stamaril, a yellow fever vaccine, which is licensed in Europe but not in the Unite...
People With Slender Face Likely To Be Left-Handed, More Susceptible To Tuberculosis
Tech Times - 30 Apr 2017 13:17
The genes behind slim facial features and tuberculosis may also raise the likelihood for left-handedness. Earlier studies also link high incidence of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia in left-handed people.
Method helps determine heart failure patients' risks
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2017 06:00
(Wiley) A new analysis describes different classifications of patients who are hospitalized with acute heart failure based on various characteristics, which may help guide early decisions regarding triage and treatment.
A transplant and a cure: Penn team eradicates hepatitis C in 10 patients following lifesaving transplants from infected donors
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2017 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Ten patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) following lifesaving kidney transplants from deceased donors who were infected with the disease...
Unemployment associated with 50 percent higher risk of death in heart failure patients
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2017 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Unemployment is associated with a 50 percent higher risk of death in patients with heart failure, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2017 and the 4th World Congress on...
Ivabradine may not benefit certain heart failure patients
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2017 06:00
(Wiley) Researchers have completed a randomized clinical trial in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), which currently has no effective treatment for reducing morbidity and mortality.
Rice University Engineering Students Develop An Algorithm That Effectively Predicts And Prevents Seizures
Tech Times - 30 Apr 2017 02:50
A team of engineering students have designed an algorithm that is very good at predicting and stopping seizures in real time. The project could be a product in the next seven years.