Clinical trials found that an investigational drug appears to halve the risk of severe asthma attacks in patients who have difficulty controlling the disorder with...Sleep Medicine
Data from a US study which began in 1972 shows that chronic insomnia was associated with higher levels of inflammation in the blood and a 58% increased risk of death....Sport and Exercise Medicine
A pre-exercise supplement of a marine oil lipid derived from the New Zealand green-lipped mussel, has 'significant' positive effects on post-exercise muscle damage,...Medico-Legal
A British woman is staging a desperate legal bid to become pregnant with her own grandchild – using her dead daughter’s eggs, reports the Daily Mail....
March 3rd, 2015Three men in Austria have become the first to get mind-controlled prosthetic limbs through a new technique called 'bionic reconstruction'. CNET reports that the...
Four out of five widely used clinical calculators considerably overrate heart attack risk, including the most recent 2013 one by the American Heart Association and the...Cardiology
Johns Hopkins cardiologists have developed a formula that estimates overall mortality risk based on ability to exercise on a treadmill. Fitness level was the single most...Nephrology
Levels of a urine protein may predict which patients with acute heart failure are at increased risk of developing acute kidney injury during hospitalisation, an...Hospital Medicine
Contrary to previous studies, Johns Hopkins researchers found that patients’ satisfaction scores only modestly improved based on the newly remodelled design of a...Clinical Practice
Emory University surgeons have developed that an approximately one-minute frailty assessment that can accurately determine how likely a patient is to have complications...
