Medical Monday: advanced heart failure

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Medical Monday: advanced heart failure - Heart failure occurs when your heart doesn work, AOT as well as it should, and enough blood pump can, for August meet your body's needs, OSA. While this sounds scary, and certainly can be, the heart failure doesn, AOT means that your heart...

A World Without Dialysis?

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A World Without Dialysis? - healthy glow. The renal cells in mice with Alport syndrome with light marker of bone marrow transplantation (green); GBM is displayed in red. Raghu Kalluri Kidney disease can condemn patients to dialysis for life with a transplant...

Avoid gaining weight during the holiday season

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Avoid gaining weight during the holiday season - avoid gaining weight during the holidays Research suggests that Americans earn an average of 2 to 5 pounds during the winter. This contributes to an average net weight gain of a person about a pound each year after efforts to lose weight. A book...

Blood clots and Travel: Staying healthy

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Blood clots and Travel: Staying healthy - When you take a long trip, you want to get up and stretch your legs, right? In addition to keeping you from feeling stiff and sore, this simple gesture can also reduce your risk of having a blood clot, a potentially dangerous health issue. Blood clots and...

Better Tanning Through Chemistry

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Better Tanning Through Chemistry - Tan-tastic mice with chemically induced tans are sandwiched between their more pale brothers :. Orazio et al. Nature 443 340 (21 September 06) Redheads rejoice! Scientists have found a way to chemically stimulate the...

The importance of check-ups and Heart Screenings for men

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The importance of check-ups and Heart Screenings for men - Men can take many steps to be heart-healthy, but many give a very important habit to have a balance regular health with a doctor. Think you're too busy? Think about this: heart disease kills one in four men in the United States, and many...

A Gene Fix for Parkinson's?

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A Gene Fix for Parkinson's? - Encouraging signs are emerging of the first gene therapy trial for Parkinson's disease, researchers report in the June issue 23 Lancet . Although their study was only designed to test the safety of a gene in the brain cast of 12 patients, the researchers found that the...

Home Safety In winter

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Home Safety In winter - Home Security During the winter Winter often means more time inside, bringing with loved ones for family dinners, gift exchange and storytelling. It is important to keep your home safe for parents and friends of all ages, especially children and the elderly who are at higher...

Neurosurgery

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Neurosurgery - UPMC is ranked among the best hospitals in the country for neurosurgical care by US News & World Report. Additionally, UPMC is one of the few medical centers in the United States - and the world - with expertise in the full range of surgical options for the brain and spine conditions....

From Flu to Superflu

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From Flu to Superflu - Out sick. Pneumonia bacteria modified to shine show the amount of infection in the lungs of mice injected with an influenza virus containing a 1918 version of the PB1-F2 protein. Jonathan McCullers / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...

Self Discipline

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Self Discipline - Self Discipline Are you still on track with your New Year resolution? The first weeks in the new year are always watched with the most amounts of vigor and hope, but now your resolve may have backfired; which is then self-discipline comes in. Self-discipline is needed to achieve...

What is an aortic aneurysm?

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What is an aortic aneurysm? - Your aorta is your biggest blood vessel which carries blood from your heart to all other areas of your body. A aortic aneurysm develops when the aorta wall weakens and balloons or bulges outward. This can be life threatening, especially if the aneurysm...

Third Gene Copy Is a Charm

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Third Gene Copy Is a Charm - Reports dating back half a century have suggested that people with Down syndrome may have a reduced risk of breast cancer, colon and other cancers. The reason has been a mystery, but some researchers think it has to do with one or more of the genes on chromosome 21 that...

Living in a World of Unfamiliar Voices

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Living in a World of Unfamiliar Voices - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - Imagine not being able to tell your son's voice from that of a perfect unknown. Welcome to the life of a 60-year-old British woman known as KH. Although a handful of people have lost the ability to recognize voice after a stroke...

Stress Management Tips

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Stress Management Tips - Stress Management Tips The pace of life for Americans in the 21st century has become increasingly stressful. Although most of us recognize the negative impact that stress has on our emotional health, research shows that this can cause damage to our physical health as well...

PH

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PH - Division UPMC Respiratory, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine is among the nation's leaders in the treatment of chronic lung diseases. As part of a leading lung transplant centers in the world - with more than 1,400 combined lung and heart-lung transplants - our pulmonologists provide expert...

How much salt is too much salt?

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How much salt is too much salt? - How much salt is too much salt? Most people consume nearly double the recommended amount of sodium per day and more is ingested in the form of sodium chloride, which is table salt. The American Heart Association recommends that adults limit daily sodium intake...
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- Cardiovascular Health Heartburn or Heart Attack? When Worry WRITING: Heart and Vascular Institute in July 18th, 2016 Heart Health Experiencing chest pain? Read more on the difference between a heart attack threatening the vital prognosis and simple heartburn....

To Stop a Seizure

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To Stop a Seizure - fast recovery. ASIC1a ionic channels help bring mouse brain activity related seizure under control ( top ). The attacks channels mice lacking suffer more severe and prolonged ( down ). Seimann et al., Nature Neuroscience , Advance Online...

Safety Home for Aging Parents

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Safety Home for Aging Parents - Home Safety for aging parents You can take simple steps to protect your family and the support your elderly parents and relatives. in creating a secure environment The Security Council Home recommends the following actions at home to prepare...

Heart and Vascular Institute

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Heart and Vascular Institute - As an acknowledged leader in cardiovascular care - with a rich history in clinical research and innovation - the Heart and Vascular Institute offers UPMC a full range of cardiovascular personalized services. As a leading heart centers in the US, UPMC has made a significant...

Madness: Price of a Big Brain?

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Madness: Price of a Big Brain? - A new study suggests that schizophrenia debilitating disease can be a byproduct of genetic changes that have fueled the evolution of the expansive human brain. The idea, still preliminary, is that the massive energy demands of the brain can make it vulnerable to mutations...

Vegetarian Nutrition

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Vegetarian Nutrition - Vegetarian Nutrition well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle. The American Dietetic Association considers properly planned vegetarian diets for healthy and nutritious and can help prevent and...

Building a New Prostate

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Building a New Prostate - Starting from a single stem cell, scientists have now produced a functional prostate gland. This marks only the second time researchers have generated a whole organ from a single stem cell, which represents major progress for research on stem cells and our understanding of...

The Dash Diet & Sel

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The Dash Diet & Sel - The Dash Diet & Sel DASH stands for "Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension" and emphasizes the heart health and lower blood pressure the DASH diet is not really a diet at all;. it is a lifestyle food Change- incorporating plenty of fruit and...

The Placebo Effect: Not All in Your Head

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The Placebo Effect: Not All in Your Head - real effect. Patients with a certain copy of a serotonin gene showed less activity in the amygdala ( left ), indicating the reduced anxiety after treatment with placebo . T. Furmark et al. Journal of Neuroscience ...

5 foods for health Fats

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5 foods for health Fats - 5 foods for healthy fats The words "healthy" and "fat" does not often get used in the same sentence. It is time to change this negative connotation: the healthy fats such as olive oil, nuts, fish fats, and lawyers are among the healthiest foods we...

Google to Close Science Data Archive

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Google to Close Science Data Archive - Over the last 2 years Google and its nonprofit fallout has launched a variety of scientific projects in areas ranging from education of astronomy to lunar exploration to make electric car batteries work better. But the economic crisis in the Silicon Valley has...

5 Road Trip Safety Tips

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5 Road Trip Safety Tips - 5 Road Trip Safety Tips It's Almost the start of road trip season, and That means clustering lots of people driving for events and vacations. Before you hit the road safe make to check off thesis 5 road trip safety tips! maintenance check. Have...