Sunday, October 2, 2011
Reducing Blood Clots After Knee And Hip Replacement, Recommendations Outlined In New Guideline
Each year more than 800,000 Americans undergo hip or knee replacement surgery. Last week the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) Board of Directs released an updated clinical practice guideline with recommendation strategies for the reduction of potential blood clot formation following hip or knee replacement surgery. Suggestions include using preventive treatments and advice against routinely screening patients after surgery using ultrasound imaging...
New Therapeutic Approach To Diabetes And Obesity Suggested By Powerful Antibody-Based Strategy
The work of a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor Nicholas Tonks FRS, suggests a way to overcome one of the major technical obstacles preventing a leading therapeutic target for diabetes and obesity from being addressed successfully by novel drugs. The target is an enzyme called PTP1B, discovered by Tonks in 1988 and long known to be an important player in the signaling pathway within cells that regulates the response to insulin...
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Coffee Health Benefits: Research on Type 2 Diabetes, Cancer, Stroke, and More
WebMD discusses the health benefits of coffee and possible risks for those with certain conditions.
Cantaloupe Death Toll Rises to 15
The number of victims is continuing to rise from the deadliest outbreak of food borne illness in a generation. The CDC today confirmed two more deaths from listeria linked to cantaloupe from Jensen Farms in Colorado, bringing the federal government?s official count to 15 deaths....
Loyola To Host World MRSA Day
The Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine will host the third annual World MRSA Day kickoff and Global MRSA Summit at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct.1, in a free, public event. Dr. William R. Jarvis, world-renowned MRSA expert formerly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is the key note speaker. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that has become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat staph infections...
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