Medical News
'Hyperinvasive' care improves survival in refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) A subgroup of patients who experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) that did not respond to standard advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), were immediately transported to a ca...
'Sticky' speech and other evocative words may improve language
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(University of Miami) A new study published in the research journal Cognitive Science finds that iconicity in parents' speech helps children learn new words
Additional data, feedback on hospital care did not improve heart failure outcomes
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) A program designed to improve hospital care for patients with heart failure, the leading cause of hospitalization among adults over age 65, did not bring additional benefits beyond existi...
Alcohol may have immediate effect on atrial fibrillation risk, events
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) Alcohol appears to have an immediate--or near-immediate--effect on heart rhythm, significantly increasing the chance that an episode of atrial fibrillation (AFib) will occur, according to...
Alcohol problems severely undertreated
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Washington University School of Medicine) Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that although the vast majority of people with alcohol use disorder see their doctors regularly f...
American College of Cardiology program works to improve global heart attack care
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) The American College of Cardiology's (ACC) Global Heart Attack Treatment Initiative (GHATI) had measurable positive impacts on care delivery for heart attacks in low- and middle-income co...
Brigham-led clinical trials take center stage at the American College of Cardiology
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Top experts from Brigham and Women's Hospital presented outcomes from some of the most-anticipated clinical trials in cardiology at the virtual American College of Cardiology's 70th Annual ...
COVID-19 hit stock markets as it spread from country to country
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Lero) As COVID-19 spread around the world, stock markets in individual countries took a major hit - yet stock markets in China where the disease first struck avoided significant falls - researchers at Lero, the Science ...
Civil commitment for substance use disorder treatment -- what do addiction medicine specialists think?
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Wolters Kluwer Health) Amid the rising toll of opioid overdoses and deaths in the U.S., several states are considering laws enabling civil commitment for involuntary treatment of patients with substance use disorders (S...
Comprehensive Mount Sinai study shows direct evidence that COVID-19 can infect cells in eye
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Study Has Implications for Preventive Measures to Slow Spread of Virus
Domestic abuse head injuries prevalent among women in prison, study finds
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Simon Fraser University) An international study has found that four out of five women in prison in Scotland have a history of head injury, mostly sustained through domestic violence. Published recently in The Lancet, re...
Ethnicity, geography and socioeconomic factors determine likelihood of detecting serious congenital
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Children's National Hospital) Mothers who are Hispanic or who come from rural or low socioeconomic status neighborhoods are less likely to have their child's critical heart condition diagnosed before birth, according to...
Family history, race and sex linked to higher rates of asthma in children
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Henry Ford Health System) A national study on childhood asthma led by Henry Ford Health System has found that family history, race and sex are associated in different ways with higher rates of asthma in children.
First immune stimulating long noncoding RNA involved in body's response to cancer
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Researchers have discovered a long noncoding RNA whose function was previously unknown that turns out to play an important role in promoting the body's immune response against...
How COVID-19 survival improved in UK hospitals during first wave
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(University of Liverpool) The likelihood of people surviving COVID-19 in UK hospitals has been improving over time, a new study has found.Research published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine by the ISARIC Coronavirus Cl...
How plankton hold secrets to preventing pandemics
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(University of Colorado at Boulder) Whether it's plankton exposed to parasites or people exposed to pathogens, a host's initial immune response plays an integral role in determining whether infection occurs and to what d...
Indigenous co-management essential for protecting, restoring Bears Ears region
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(University of Utah) Indigenous subsistence of the Bears Ears region modified the landscape, leaving ecological legacies that persist today. A blend of Indigenous knowledge and western science can be used to build manage...
Insulin is necessary for repairing olfactory neurons
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Monell Chemical Senses Center) Insulin plays a critical role in the maturation, after injury, of immature olfactory sensory neurons. Applying insulin into the nasal passage could be developed as a therapy for injury cau...
Multi-gene testing could detect more hereditary cancer syndromes
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) Up to 38.6% of people with colon cancer who have a hereditary cancer syndrome--including 6.3% of those with Lynch syndrome--could have their conditions remain undetected with...
New study of how US recreational cannabis legalization could change illegal drug markets
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(Society for the Study of Addiction) A study published in the scientific journal Addiction provides the most comprehensive evidence to date of the association between recreational cannabis laws (RCLs) in US states and re...
Omecamtiv Mecarbil brings greater benefits for severe heart failure
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) The experimental heart failure drug omecamtiv mecarbil reduced heart failure hospitalizations by a greater margin among patients with more severely reduced ejection fraction, a measure in...
Pirfenidone reduces scar tissue in patients with heart failure
EurekAlert! - 17 May 2021 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) Patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction who took the antifibrotic drug pirfenidone saw a significant reduction in a marker of heart muscle scarring compared with pati...