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Cool Temperature Alters Human Fat and Metabolism

30.07.20141620

A team led by Dr. Francesco S. Celi of Virginia Commonwealth University and Dr. Paul Lee, now at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia, explored the effects of ambient temperature on brown fat and metabolism.

Drugs to reduce blood sugar levels can do more harm than good in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes, a study has reported

29.07.20141529

Researchers from University College London and the University of Michigan in the United States used data from the UK Prospective Diabetes Study, a 20 year study of type 2 diabetes treatments involving more than 5000 people in the United Kingdom.

The results of the first stage of the Battle of the scholars are ready

28.07.20142503

Победителями стали следующие команды: Алмазная колесница (Санкт-Петербург), Югра (Ханты-Мансийск) и Самарские кардиологи (Самара).

Direct Drug-Eluting Stenting to Reduce Stent Restenosis:

28.07.20141720

What is the benefit of direct stenting in patients treated with drug-eluting stents (DES)?

Simulated' human heart used to screen drugs

25.07.20141531

A scientist has developed a pioneering new way -- using samples of beating heart tissue -- to test the effect of drugs on the heart without using human or animal trials.

Mortality rates higher for TAVR-treated patients with low ejection fraction

24.07.20141777

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis had higher 30-day and 1-year mortality rates if their ejection fraction was low when compared with those in the normal range.

Catheter-directed thrombolysis did not benefit, may harm patients with DVT

23.07.20141512

Researchers compared in-hospital outcomes of catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) plus anticoagulation with outcomes of anticoagulation alone in an observational study of 90,618 patients with proximal or caval DVT.