News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 1, 2014
In the event of uncontrolled bleeding, this synthetic heparin can be reversed by an existing drug.
And the LMWH is cleared by the liver rather than...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 28, 2014
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Researchers have developed an optical device that requires only a few drops of blood and a few minutes to measure coagulati...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 28, 2014
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A single genetic mutation can cause resistance to the main insecticides used to combat malaria, accordin...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 27, 2014
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Blacks may be twice as likely as whites to develop multiple myeloma (MM) because they are more likely to have monoclonal g...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 27, 2014
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Updated guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology provide a comparison of oral anticoagulants as stroke prophylaxis...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 26, 2014
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In a large study, patients who received red blood cell (RBC) transfusions after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) had a...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 26, 2014
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A computerized safety checklist that pulls information from patients’ electronic medical records can...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 25, 2014
Investigators have found evidence suggesting the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax originated in Africa. Until recently, the closest genetic relativ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 25, 2014
Inhibiting two biosynthesis pathways can override treatment resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), preclinical research suggests.
Resear...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 24, 2014
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The drug spironolactone could improve the efficacy of platinum-based chemotherapy by preventing tumor cell repair, according to ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 24, 2014
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Results of 2 new studies suggest that a single regulatory protein a...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 23, 2014
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The time needed to sequence an entire human genome has decreased greatly in recent years, but analyzing the resulting 3 billion base ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 22, 2014
Two groups of researchers have shown that variants in the gene CECR1, which encodes for ADA2, are associated with blood vessel disorders.
One group...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 21, 2014
Researchers believe they’ve discovered how the Bcl-2 protein helps leukemia and lymphoma cells survive anticancer treatment.
The team found that Bc...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 21, 2014
Results of whole-exome sequencing suggested that infants with leukemia inherited genetic variants from both parents that, by themselves, would not cau...
