Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
Imagine coming to the hospital with crushing chest pain, only to find that emergency room doctors are uncertain whether youre having a heart attack. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is inconclusive and the blood tests that detect heart damage are normal. The only thing to do is wait, hour after hour...No butts about it: Unique UH database shows Texas is crushing out smoking
In the last five years, Texas cities have been crushing out cigarettes and other tobacco products in restaurants, bars and worksites at a faster rate than ever before. The trend toward non-smoking ordinances is one of many findings of the Texas Smoke-Free Ordinance Database created and maintained at the...Healing the heart with bone marrow cells
...from a heart attack and many of them are left with crushing disabilities, mainly because the heart muscle is not able to regenerate after a heart attack. This study identifies the method the body employs to repair the heart and provides new therapies to stimulate cardiac regeneration and prevent heart failure...Major advances in techniques, devices, medications spur update of PCI guidelines
DALLAS-- For patients suffering the crushing pain of a heart attack, the trip of a lifetime may be to a hospital prepared to quickly open the blocked artery by inflating a small balloon and inserting a tiny metal structure called a stent to act as permanent scaffolding. The goal: to restore blo...New book on bipolar disorder targets 12 million affected Americans, families
...sistently feels sadness, hopelessness, despair, or crushing boredom. You notice changes in your child's concentration, grades dropping, or problems in school. Your child has expressed suicidal thoughts or engaged in self-harm, such as cutting. (If you check this warning sign, call a professional immediatel...Tools for diagnosing heart attack could be inaccurate in some populations
...e know that typical American patient presents with crushing chest pain. But, this approach doesn't take into the account the different ethnicities that might present differently." For the study, the researchers analyzed data from a registry of patients with cardiac symptoms who came to the emergency departmen......in. To protect themselves from another potential crushing emotional blow, it is easier to think of their pregnancy as an impersonal biological condition. They are not, in fact, "expecting a baby." There are no joyous baby showers. Mainly there is anxiety. Denise Ct-Arsenault, Ph.D., an associate profes...