Month: September 2019

BOSTON--Results were released today from the first two clinical studies designed specifically to examine the effects of the heart drug ...

Coalition issues international consensus on testosterone treatment for women

Endocrine Society, partners endorse statement clarifying benefits, risks of testosterone therapy The Endocrine Society and 10 other internationally esteemed medical ...

Map of broken brain networks shows why people lose speech in language-based dementia

'Now we know where to target people's brains to attempt to improve their speech'Credit: Northwestern University CHICAGO --- For the ...

Bacteria in pneumonia attack using bleaching agent

Credit: Mattias Pettersson Research shows that bacteria use hydrogen peroxide to weaken the immune system and cause pneumonia. This according ...

Lack of government action on NHS staffing undermines ambition to diagnose cancer early

In just one year, around 115,000 cancer patients in England are diagnosed too late to give them the best chance ...

For patients with diabetes, ticagrelor reduced heart attacks, strokes

Benefits particularly favorable in patients with prior coronary artery stenting; patients also experienced increased risk of bleeding Boston, MA -- ...

Preserved heart failure trial misses endpoint, but drug may benefit some patients

Overall, sacubitril-valsartan did not significantly reduce hospitalizations and cardiovascular death in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; however, ...

Preventative artery repair provides major benefit after serious heart attack

No major downside to the additional proceduresCredit: Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences. HAMILTON, ...

Research finds extreme elitism, social hierarchy among Gab users

New study discovers small number of influential users share homogeneous content sometimes associated with state-sponsored propagandaCredit: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay WASHINGTON (Sept. ...

Cardiovascular disease patients benefit more from exercise than healthy people