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Predominately Black Hospitals Provide Poor Trauma Care

Victims of trauma are at higher risk of either dying or suffering a major complication if they are treated at a hospital that serves a large population of black patients, find... Full Article

New Data for the Treatment of Preeclampsia: Preclinical Research Shows PLX Cells May Be Effective in Treating Preeclampsia
Could the answer to repairing the ailing placenta in preeclampsia lie within the stem cells of a healthy placenta? New promising evidence may lead scientists to answer that qu... Full Article

Tavenner Confirmed as CMS Administrator
Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed by the Senate Wednesday to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The 91-7 vote makes Tavenner the first confirmed CMS l... Full Article

CLSI Releases Newborn Screening Document to Aid in the Detection of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has released NBS06-A-Newborn Blood Spot Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency by Measurement of T-cell Receptor Exc... Full Article

Map Shows Infection and Sepsis-Related Mortality Hotspots Across the US
In the past, researchers have sought to determine the geographic distribution of many life-threatening conditions, including stroke and cardiac arrest. Now, researchers at the... Full Article

Angelina Jolie Has Preventive Double Mastectomy
Hollywood film star Angelina Jolie announced Tuesday that she has undergone a double mastectomy because she carries a genetic mutation that greatly increases her risk of poten... Full Article

Common Treatment for Bronchiolitis Ineffective at Reducing Length of Hospital Stay
New research shows that hospital stays for infants diagnosed with bronchiolitis, or inflammation of the lungs, and treated with nebulized 3% hypertonic saline (HS), a commonly... Full Article

Enhanced Motion Perception in Autism May Point to an Underlying Cause of the Disorder
Children with autism see simple movement twice as quickly as other children their age, and this hypersensitivity to motion may provide clues to a fundamental cause of the deve... Full Article

Game-Changing Discovery of Gene Mutation That Causes Sturge-Weber Syndrome, Port-Wine Stain Birthmarks Offers New Hope
In new findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute reveal the discovery of the cause—a genetic mutation that occu... Full Article

Immune Cells That Suppress Genital Herpes Infections Identified
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington scientists have identified a class of immune cells that reside long-term in the genital skin and mucosa and... Full Article

Genetic Variations Associated With Susceptibility to Bacteria Linked to Stomach Disorders
Two genome-wide association studies and a subsequent meta-analysis have found that certain genetic variations are associated with susceptibility to Helicobacter pylori, a bact... Full Article

Minimal Dose CT Superior to Chest X-Ray for Detection of Recurrent Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is associated with very high mortality, in part because it is hard to detect at early stages, but also because it can recur frequently after surgical removal. The ... Full Article

Effect of Different Oxygen Saturation Levels on Death or Disability in Extremely Preterm Infants
In a randomized trial performed to help resolve the uncertainty about the optimal oxygen saturation therapy in extremely preterm infants, researchers found that targeting satu... Full Article

Epilepsy Cured in Mice Using Brain Cells
Epilepsy that does not respond to drugs can be halted in adult mice by transplanting a specific type of cell into the brain, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered, rais... Full Article

Biomedical Imaging Expert Ge Wang Joins Rensselaer as Clark and Crossan Professor
Biomedical imaging expert Ge Wang recently joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering, and a faculty member in... Full Article

Targeted Screening for C. difficile Upon Hospital Admission Could Potentially Identify Most Colonized Patients
Testing patients with just three risk factors upon hospital admission has potential to identify nearly three out of four asymptomatic carriers of C. difficile, according to a ... Full Article

‘Catastrophic’ Malpractice Payouts Add Little to Healthcare’s Rising Costs
Efforts to lower healthcare costs in the United States have focused at times on demands to reform the medical malpractice system, with some researchers asserting that large, h... Full Article

A Text Message a Day Keeps the Asthma Attack Away
Simply sending children with asthma a text message each day asking about their symptoms and providing knowledge about their condition can lead to improved health outcomes. In... Full Article

New Research Shows Weekend Binge Drinking Could Leave Lasting Liver Damage
Long after a hangover, a night of bad decisions might take a bigger toll on the body than previously understood. Described in the current issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Exper... Full Article

Maternal Diet Sets Up Junk Food Addiction in Babies
Research from the University of Adelaide suggests that mothers who eat junk food while pregnant have already programmed their babies to be addicted to a high fat, high sugar d... Full Article

Modeling Disease Spread, Including Flu
The Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) is a collaborative research network funded by the National Institutes of Health that uses computational, statistical and m... Full Article

Intractable Seizures Halted with Experimental Treatment for Rare Pediatric "Pretzel Syndrome"
With a better understanding of underlying mechanisms that cause a rare neurodevelopmental disorder in the Old Order Mennonite population, referred to as Pretzel syndrome, a ne... Full Article

Air Pollution Linked to Hardening of the Arteries
Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to heart attacks and strokes by speeding up atherosclerosis, or "hardening of the arteries," according to a University of Mic... Full Article

Study Examines Methods, Procedures For Improved Diagnosis of Ectopic Pregnancy
For women with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding during early pregnancy, patient history and clinical examination alone are insufficient to indicate or eliminate the possibil... Full Article

Quit Smoking? Vitamin E May Give Extra Boost to Heart Health
Taking a specific form of a vitamin E supplement can accelerate the health benefits that occur when people quit smoking, new research suggests. In the small study, improvemen... Full Article

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