20Sep/13

Digoxin use associated with higher risk of death for heart failure patients – Science Daily (press release)

Digoxin use associated with higher risk of death for heart failure patients
Science Daily (press release)
Sep. 20, 2013 — Digoxin, a drug commonly used to treat heart conditions, was associated with a 72 percent higher rate of death among adults with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in the current 

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20Sep/13

Are "flatlining” patients really dead? Research suggests memories "live on" – Yahoo! News UK


Yahoo! News UK

Are “flatlining” patients really dead? Research suggests memories “live on”
Yahoo! News UK
Are “flatlining” patients really dead? Research suggests memories “live on”. “Flatliners” may be more alive than thought, a shock new study has found – with areas of the brain still storing memories after “brain death“. Yahoo News. By Chris Hall

20Sep/13

Papworth Hospital's new chairman determined to move trust into Cambridge – Cambridge News


Cambridge News

Papworth Hospital’s new chairman determined to move trust into Cambridge
Cambridge News
Prof John Wallwork has spent 30 years at the forefront of transplant surgery and research, having left his last post at Papworth two years ago. His main aim is to help the hospital finally move to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus on the Addenbrooke’s

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20Sep/13

The Looming Specter of Chronic Kidney Disease – Medscape


Medscape

The Looming Specter of Chronic Kidney Disease
Medscape
If you haven’t seen it yet, you ought to take a look at a recent paper in the American Journal of Kidney Disease by Grams and colleagues that used Markov chain modeling to estimate the lifetime incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD), stages 3
GW researcher awarded UO-1 grants to study gut microbiome on inflammation News-Medical.net

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