A new study by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that training medical students to use a handheld ultrasound device can enhance the accuracy of their physical diagnosis.
A new diagnostic technique — resulting from monitoring thousands of courtship calls from songbirds — can be used to safely map the human brain during complex neurosurgery, according to research from Neuroscientists at NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere.
The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open-heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events. Therefore, the routine addition of MV repair to CABG in patients with moderate IMR did not demonstrate a clinically meaningful advantage.
A mother’s “TLC” not only can help soothe pain in infants, but it may also impact early brain development by altering gene activity in a part of the brain involved in emotions, according to new study from NYU Langone Medical Center.
An investigational treatment for Marfan syndrome is as effective as the standard therapy at slowing enlargement of the aorta, the large artery of the heart that delivers blood to the body, new research shows. The findings indicate a second treatment option for Marfan patients, who are at high risk of sudden death from tears in the aorta.
Research suggests more referrals needed from primary care doctors to mental health professionals when dealing with eating disorders.
New federal regulations requiring school meals to contain more whole grains, less saturated fat and more fruits and vegetables, while perhaps improving some aspects of the food being served at schools across the United States, may also be perpetuating eating habits linked to obesity, diabetes and other diet-related diseases, an analysis by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers has found.
Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have found that injections of cardiac stem cells might help reverse heart damage caused by Duchenne muscular dystrophy, potentially resulting in a longer life expectancy for patients with the chronic muscle-wasting disease.
Results of a new study challenge the current consensus in cardiology that peak myocardial edema, or heart muscle swelling, only occurs just after a myocardial infarction, or heart attack.
Case Western Reserve researchers have developed a procedure that restores function to muscles that control breathing – even when they have been paralyzed for more than a year. The breakthrough offers hope that patients with severe spinal cord injuries will be able to breathe again on their own.
Most patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs)—small devices placed in a person’s chest to help treat irregular heartbeats with electrical pulses, or shocks—haven’t thought about device deactivation if they were to develop a serious illness from which they were not expected to recover. But given changes in healthcare, there may be a new reason to do so. A new study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which was presented today at the 2014 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, investigated patient perspectives on deactivation of these devices at the end of life, especially related to decisions to deactivate devices against patient or family wishes.
The layer of fat that surrounds the heart may be a better predictor of atrial fibrillation than body mass index, the most common measure of obesity, a study has found.
Asthma that requires daily medication is associated with a significantly higher risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH).
lack patients who have been diagnosed with heart failure are no less likely than white patients to get atrial fibrillation (an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia), according to a new study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which was presented today at the 2014 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association. These findings run counter to previous studies, which have found that black patients with heart failure tend to have less atrial fibrillation problems than white patients.
Yasuo Ikeda, M.D., of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues examined whether once-daily, low-dose aspirin would reduce the total number of cardiovascular (CV) events (death from CV causes, nonfatal heart attack or stroke) compared with no aspirin in Japanese patients 60 years or older with hypertension, diabetes, or poor cholesterol or triglyceride levels.
Joseph B. Muhlestein, M.D., of the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, Murray, Utah, and colleagues examined whether screening patients with diabetes deemed to be at high cardiac risk with coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) would result in a significant longterm reduction in death, heart attack, or hospitalization for unstable angina.
Neuroscientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have shown that calorie-reduced diets stop the normal rise and fall in activity levels of close to 900 different genes linked to aging and memory formation in the brain.
Fatigue, increased irritability, and feeling demoralized, may raise a healthy man or woman’s risk of first-time cardiovascular disease by 36 percent, according to a study led by researchers at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt hospitals presented on Nov. 17 at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2014 in Chicago, IL.
Mikhail Kosiborod, M.D., of Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, and colleagues evaluated the efficacy and safety of the drug zirconium cyclosilicate in patients with hyperkalemia (higher than normal potassium levels). The study appears in JAMA and is being released to coincide with its presentation at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2014.
Embargoed research from APHA's 142nd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Nov. 15-19.
Embargoed research from APHA's 142nd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Nov. 15-19.
Embargoed research from APHA's 142nd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Nov. 15-19
You can offer young children healthier food choices in the elementary school cafeteria, but will they actually put it on their trays and eat it? Probably not, suggests a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study.
People who frequently cook meals at home eat healthier and consume fewer calories than those who cook less, according to new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research.
Results from the DAPT Study were announced in November in multiple presentations at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2014. Results from the primary study analysis were concurrently published in The New England Journal of Medicine, and an investigator-led meta-analysis was published in The Lancet.
Hospital for Special Surgery researchers found that body mass index (BMI) plays a role in rheumatoid arthritis patients’ ability to achieve a sustained remission. Those who were significantly underweight or overweight/obese were the least likely to remain in remission.
More than 50 studies involving researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City will be presented at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting in Boston.
A study by Hospital for Special Surgery researchers finds that total hip replacement is an excellent option for patients under age 35 when conservative treatments fail to provide relief.
Patients with active asthma — such as any use of asthma medications, and unscheduled office or emergency visits for asthma — are at a twofold risk of having a heart attack, according to Mayo Clinic research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2014.
Members of the public in counties with higher median household incomes are more likely to step into action to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, when they witness someone have a cardiac arrest, according to a new study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which was presented today at the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Science Symposium 2014.
Two or more serious hits to the head within days of each other can interfere with the brain’s ability to use sugar – its primary energy source – to repair cells damaged by the injuries, new research suggests.
A chemotherapy regimen consisting of procarbazine, CCNU, and vincristine (PCV) administered following radiation therapy improved progression-free survival and overall survival in adults with low-grade gliomas, a form of brain cancer, when compared to radiation therapy alone. The findings were part of the results of a Phase III clinical trial presented today at the Society for Neuro-Oncology’s 19th Annual Meeting in Miami by the study’s primary author Jan Buckner, M.D., deputy director, practice, at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.
A molecule in the blood shows promise as a marker to predict whether individual rheumatoid arthritis patients are likely to benefit from biologic medications or other drugs should be tried, a Mayo Clinic-led study shows. The protein, analyzed in blood tests, may help avoid trial and error with medications, sparing patients treatment delays and unnecessary side effects and expense. The research is among several Mayo Clinic studies presented at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting in Boston.
A healthy diet may help protect the kidneys.
Carefully employing a TNF inhibitor dose-reduction strategy can be just as effective at safely treating RA patients as regular dosing methods, while also saving approximately $7,500 per patient annually.
Physically demanding jobs may increase the effects of inflammation on the progression of ankylosing spondylitis, possibly leading to increased bone formation in these patients, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Secukinumab, an anti-IL-17A monoclonal antibody biologic drug, showed promise as a treatment for patients with active ankylosing spondylitis, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Rheumatologists at Geisinger Health System in Central Pennsylvania have developed a new model of rheumatoid arthritis patient care that is designed to improve quality while reducing costs, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Baseline levels of serum interferon in rheumatoid arthritis patients may help rheumatologists determine who will have a poor response to tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitor drugs, and one day help rheumatologists determine the best treatment options for individual RA patients.
Women with rheumatoid arthritis are at significantly higher risk of all-cause mortality, particularly respiratory causes, compared to women without the disease, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Not only does treatment with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor biologic drugs not increase the risk of congestive heart failure in people with rheumatoid arthritis, but it may decrease the incidence of this serious cardiovascular disease in these patients, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Better clinical care and compliance might prevent most gout cases that require hospitalization, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Patients with rheumatic diseases who are treated with denosumab (Prolia®, Xgeva®) either alone, or in combination with either biologic or non-biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), do not appear to have a significant increased risk of infections.
Women using intrauterine devices (IUDs) may be at increased risk for producing autoantibodies related to the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Running as a habitual exercise at any stage in life not only does not increase a person’s risk of developing knee osteoarthritis and may even help protect a person from developing the painful disease, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Patients with end-stage lung disease due to systemic sclerosis should not simply be denied lung transplantation because of short- and long-term survival concerns due to extra-pulmonary factors, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
People with rheumatoid arthritis who are currently taking biologic drugs may be safely vaccinated for the viral infection herpes zoster, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston.
Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil®), especially at the higher standard dose of 400 mg per day, independently decreases the risk of cardiovascular morbidity in people with rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
Raman spectroscopy (RS) used at point of service could reduce the need for inpatient admission in patients with gout and pseudogout, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
People age 30 or over with autoimmune, inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and inflammatory bowel disease, may benefit from vaccinations for the viral infection herpes zoster, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.
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