Diagnostic Tools: A Calculated Risk
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- Written by Wallace Ravven
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Berkeley, California - Rushed to the hospital with a crushing headache and numbness on his left side, the 72-year-old man appears to be having a stroke - either a bleed or a block in a major artery supplying the brain.
Bioengineers put human hearts on a chip to aid drug screening
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Berkeley, California - When UC Berkeley bioengineers say they are holding their hearts in the palms of their hands, they are not talking about emotional vulnerability.
Swine flu outbreak in India raises concern
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Since December, an outbreak of swine flu in India has killed more than 1,200 people, and a new MIT study suggests that the strain has acquired mutations that make it more dangerous than previously circulating strains of H1N1 influenza.
Reaching “80% by 2018” Would Prevent More Than 20,000 Colorectal Cancer Deaths per Year
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Atlanta, Georgia - Increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates to 80% by 2018 would prevent an additional 21,000 colorectal cancer deaths per year by 2030, according to a new study. The study is the first to estimate the public health benefits of increasing screening rates to “80% by 2018,” a recent initiative from the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCR), a national coalition of public, private, and voluntary organizations, to aim for screening rates of 80% in the United States by 2018.
United States organization takes first place for World Stroke campaign
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Dallas, Texas - The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association topped entries from 44 other countries to earn the World Stroke Organization’s First Place “Gold Award” for World Stroke Day 2014.
The Latest Tools for Living Well with Diabetes
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Alexandria, Virginia - Diabetes Forecast, the Healthy Living Magazine from the American Diabetes Association, has released its annual Consumer Guide with the March/April 2015 issue.
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