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Increased use of bikes for commuting offers economic, health benefits MADISON – Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The biggest health benefit was due to replacing half of the […]
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Edwards Lifesciences Receives FDA Approval for First Catheter-Based Aortic Heart Valve in the U.S. IRVINE, CA, November 02, 2011 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, today announced that it has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the transfemoral […]
FDA approves first artificial aortic heart valve placed without open-heart surgery The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first artificial heart valve that can replace an aortic heart valve damaged by senile aortic valve stenosis without open-heart surgery. Senile aortic valve stenosis is a progressive, age-related disease caused by calcium deposits on the […]
Delegates move from words to action on the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development … Ten-point action plan outcome document adopted by all delegates … 01 November 2011 Geneva An international conference to reduce armed violence ended in Geneva today with an acknowledgment of the need for tighter controls on the flow of arms, […]
Two separate girls! Packard Children’s surgeons separate conjoined twins … Angelica and Angelina Raw footage of a conjoined twins surgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford from November 11, 2011. Wonderful two-year-old girls, the Angelina and Angelica Sabuco, were successfully separated by a multidisciplinary team led by Gary Hartman, MD. … Today’s surgery to separate […]
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Lung Cancer Awareness Month Every November, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other organizations join to recognize Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a national campaign aimed at raising attention to lung cancer and its impact on our Nation’s health. Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, is largely […]
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Lung cancer can affect anyone, but not everyone is listening … … In preparation for Lung Cancer Awareness Month in November, my colleague Liat Kobza and I recently set up a camera and asked six Stanford physicians to share their thoughts about the disease. We were shocked by what we heard: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer […]
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Using brain-training games to stave off depression in adolescents Children of parents who suffer from depression may have an increased risk of developing the condition or other psychological problems, in part because the parents may pass down behavioral traits such as overacting negatively to emotional situations. Now Stanford psychology professor Ian Gotlib, PhD, and colleagues are studying whether […]
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Live-action films of worm sperm help researchers track critical fertility enzymes SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2011 — Compared to most other cells in an organism, sperm undergo a radical transformation to become compact and mobile delivery systems for paternal DNA. Even though sperm looks and moves quite differently across species, SF State researcher Diana Chu […]
‘Muffin Test’ Predicts Heart Disease in Healthy, Young People New research presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Vancouver reiterates the old adage that “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” As it turns out, investigators found that almost half of the seemingly healthy-looking study volunteers – trim 18- to 35-year-olds with normal blood pressure […]
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