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(University of Minnesota) Fairview Health Services and the University of Minnesota announced today a gift of $50 million from Caroline Amplatz, J.D., to honor her father, former University professor and medical device pioneer Kurt Amplatz, M.D. In recognition of the gift, the new facility will be named University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. The hospital, [...]
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(New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College) A new book by Dr. Panchali Dhar, an anesthesiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, called “Before the Scalpel: What Everyone Should Know About Anesthesia” (Tell Me Press) demystifies the process and terms associated with anesthesia and arranges the information in an easy-to-understand, topic-by-topic sourcebook.
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New research provides further evidence of the benefits of physical exercise in sedentary postmenopausal women, this time on quality of life. Heartwire
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Minorities continue to be underrepresented in clinical trials, and provider incentives for recruiting minority enrolment are ineffective Medscape Medical News
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A study showed that semiautomated, individually specific quantitative MRI can identify a pattern of regional atrophy in patients with mild cognitive impairment that predicts clinical decline. Medscape Medical News
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CHICAGO (MedPage Today) — Moving nerves that formerly served amputated limbs so that they activate other muscles helped improve control of prosthetic arms and hands, researchers here said.
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(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Dr. Harvey Pass of the NYU Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center is one of the authors of a research study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology which shows for the first time that a microRNA-based diagnostic test can objectively identify squamous [...]
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(California Institute of Technology) Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have uncovered the Transformer like properties of molecules responsible for carrying and depositing proteins to their correct locations within cells. The research could eventually lead to novel treatments for diseases that result from flaws in protein delivery as well as the development of new [...]
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(Brown University) Joan Teno, M.D., professor of community health and medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, has co-written a guide to help doctors place their patients in the best possible hospice care. Details on the guide will be published in the Feb. 11, 2009, edition of the Journal of the American [...]
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CHICAGO (MedPage Today) — Moving nerves that formerly served amputated limbs so that they activate other muscles helped improve control of prosthetic arms and hands, researchers here said.
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