Medicine and life sciences

May 23 - Teams of highly respected Alzheimer's researchers failed to replicate what appeared to be breakthrough results for the treatment of this brain disease when they were published last year in the journal Science .
Medicine May 23

UCLA researchers examining outcomes for advanced heart-failure patients over the past two decades have found that, coinciding with the increased availability and use of new therapies, overall mortality has decreased and sudden cardiac death, caused by the rapid onset of severe abnormal heart rhythms, has declined.

Medicine - Chemistry May 22

In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, a team of Wisconsin scientists has synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable of curbing the bacteria that cause staph infections.

Medicine - Life Sciences May 21
Medicine - Life Sciences

UAlberta medical researchers discover new ways to target, develop and design drugs to prevent and treat viral infection.

Medicine May 21

Computational model offers insight into mechanisms of drug-coated balloons. - Over the past few decades, scientists have developed many devices that can reopen clogged arteries, including angioplasty balloons and metallic stents.

Medicine - Life Sciences May 16

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (05/16/2013) —Informed consent is the backbone of patient care.

Medicine May 23
Medicine

Cardiac study used as source for new guidelines on treating people undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery.

Life Sciences - Medicine May 22

Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion — the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior.

Medicine - Life Sciences May 21
Medicine - Life Sciences

When infections occur in the body, stem cells in the blood often jump into action by multiplying and differentiating into mature immune cells that can fight off illness.

Medicine - Life Sciences May 20

ANN ARBOR-Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming resurgence.

Medicine May 16
Medicine

Cholesterol testing fails to accurately predict high risk of heart attack in patients with kidney disease, UAlberta research shows.

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Arlene Holden Chair in Breast Cancer Research University of Iowa