Mayo Clinic investigates new device to regulate beating of the heart and improve pump function
...e of a new pacemaker-defibrillator device that may offer new hope for patients with heart failure who also have potentially dangerous uncoordinated or irregular contractions of the heart. Up to 50 percent of people with advanced heart failure develop abnormalities of the heart's electrical impulses, which ...Targeted toxins may revolutionize pain therapy
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...cted by Memorial Sloan-Kettering investigators may offer one such approach. In a separate laboratory study aimed at developing therapies to treat prostate cancer, human prostate tumors were grown in mice to determine the effectiveness of a monoclonal antibody called Herceptin® (trastuzumab) and a chem...... research projects, the Mind-Body Center also will offer training for health care professionals and researchers through summer institutes, lectures and small grants to stimulate new research projects. Supporting the work of the center are cores for data management, measurement and statistical resources an...Blood marker can signal trouble for individuals with heart disease
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...bles area residents to participate in studies that offer free HIV testing and newly developed drugs for treatment of the disease. The local award is part of more than $80 million in renewed funding from the NIH for the Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group, a nationwide network of medical research institutions....Chronic disease: the overlooked & understudied epidemic
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