White coat hypertension is a unique type of hypertension felt only for short intervals of time and within a specific...

Lifespan) New research led by Cindy Schwartz, M.D., of Hasbro Children's Hospital has identified a new chemotherapy regimen for pediatric Hodgkin's lymphoma patients. The new treatment enhances efficacy through dose-dense drug delivery while simultaneously reducing the long-term risks presented by

University of Arizona) A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Arizona researchers to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice.

NOAA Headquarters) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today published a final rule in the Federal Register prohibiting the harvesting of krill in the Exclusive Economic Zone off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. The rule goes into effect

University of Arizona, College of Pharmacy) Research led by the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy has found that medication prescribers correctly identified fewer than half of drug pairs with potentially dangerous drug-drug interactions. The researchers, led by Daniel Malone,

American Society of Hematology) The American Society of Hematology announces that Ellis J. Neufeld, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School, Thomas Shea, M.D., of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Alvin Schmaier, M.D., of Case Western Reserve University

University of California - Los Angeles) UCLA scientists have discovered a way to measure the amount of amyloid beta that is being absorbed by immune cells in the blood. Amyloid beta forms the plaques considered the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease,

Queen's University) Eye movement tests developed by Queen's University researchers to aid in understanding childhood brain development and healthy aging may also help in the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and detecting the early onset of Parkinson's disease. The

McMaster University) A method for printing a toxin-detecting biosensor on paper using a FujiFilm Dimatix Materials Printer is described in the July issue of Analytical Chemistry by researchers at McMaster University and the Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network.

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Earlier studies of bathtub injuries concentrated on burns from hot water and drowning and near-drowning. This is the first study that looked at injuries caused by slips and falls, according to the report published in the July 13 online edition

Finnish researchers concluded that clozapine is associated with a lower death rate compared to other antipsychotics.

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is a Rheumatic disease that causes arthritisof the spine and sacro iliac joint and can cause inflammation of the eyes, lungs and heart valves. It varies from intermittent episodes of back pain that occur through out life to severe chronic

Spinal anesthesia is a form of regional anesthesia that involves injection of the anesthetic agent adjacent to the spinal cord or just outside it using a long needle. This renders the portion of the body beyond or below(as the case

strictly speaking, means putting local anesthetic ("freezing") around the affected area to make it pain free. Technically speaking, local anesthetics are drugs that block sensory and motor nerve conduction to produce temporary loss of sensation without loss of consciousness. The

About Anaesthesia"Doctor, will you give me chloroform or anaesthesia?"This is the often-repeated query by many patients about to undergo an operation. Little do they know that chloroform became obsolete decades ago. Anaesthesia has come a long way since then, being

Overview & Early History"Modern anorexia is the biopsychosocial disorder mirroring a society with specific tensions and contradictions: the bourgeois family, supportive yet suffocating, and all the paradoxical hypocrisies of modern attitudes towards youth, food, femininity, beautyand sexuality, are whipped up