Researchers at Universit? de Montr?al, working with teams at Massachusetts General Hospital and Johns Hopkins University, have made a major breakthrough in understanding an essential aspect of the immune system.
Thousands of statin users worldwide are suffering preventable heart attacks, simply because they are not complying with their treatment or are taking too low a dose, according to new research published on-line today (Thursday 7 December) in European Heart Journal.
Computer scientists are building mathematical models to represent the safest and most effective ways to perform surgery, including tasks such as suturing, dissecting and joining tissue.
Cardinal Health, the leading provider of products and services supporting the health-care industry, today showcased its medication technologies that offer hospitals a comprehensive program to manage all medications ? from pharmacy to nursing to the point of care.
Cardinal Health, the leading provider of products and services supporting the health-care industry, today announced a unique, new service to improve patient safety by providing hospitals with pharmaceuticals in unit-of-use packages, complete with bar codes that help clinicians verify medications at the bedside.
Doctors may be able to better evaluate the stage of colorectal cancer using a technique that combines two imaging systems used to make a 3-D image of the whole body, a new study suggests.
Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have demonstrated in mice a way that might reduce the time it takes for a bone marrow transplant to rebuild a child’s immune system, and so reduce the risk of potentially fatal virus infections that can occur during this time.
University of Pennsylvania alumni Ralph J. Roberts and his son Brian L. Roberts have pledged $15 million to help create the first-of-its-kind proton therapy center for the treatment of cancer.
Winter is once again upon us – and NHS Lothian is ensuring that during this busy time, we’re geared up to look after an increased number of patients. NHS Lothian is opening additional hospital beds and expanding clinical and non-clinical services, to help meet the expected rise in demand for services.
Governments should keep the threat and funding of global terrorism in perspective, given the number of preventable deaths that occur daily from HIV, malaria and TB.