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UT Physicians expands Sickle Cell Center to accommodate growing number of patients

For people living with sickle cell disease, chronic pain becomes an all too familiar part of everyday life. The UT Physicians Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center is working to help change that.

15 Nov 2016

PET/CT imaging can effectively measure coronary artery calcification for assessing heart attack risk

Many people who experience chest pain but don't have a heart attack breathe a big sigh of relief when a stress test comes back negative for blockages in their blood vessels.

15 Nov 2016

Statins can help prevent first time heart attacks, strokes in adults with cardiovascular risk factors

Cholesterol-lowering drugs help prevent heart attacks and strokes in adults with cardiovascular risk factors such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking, but have not yet had a heart attack or stroke, according to a large-scale analysis of clinical trial data led by the OHSU Pacific Northwest Evidence-Based Practice Center.

14 Nov 2016

Research shows workings of biochemical pathway that helps control blood glucose

Research led by a Johns Hopkins University biologist demonstrates the workings of a biochemical pathway that helps control glucose in the bloodstream, a development that could potentially lead to treatments for diabetes.

14 Nov 2016

USPSTF recommends use of low- to moderate-dose statins for preventing CVD events in adults

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued a recommendation statement regarding the use of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults. The report appears in the November 15 issue of JAMA.

14 Nov 2016

Study finds two differing medications to be safe and effective for preventing blood clots during PCI

Two differing blood clot prevention medications are just as safe and effective for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, a non-surgical procedure to open blood vessels narrowed by plaque buildup, according to a new study.

14 Nov 2016

New guidelines recommend use of antiplatelet therapy and exercise program for treatment of PAD

New guidelines for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD), include recommendations on the use of antiplatelet therapy to reduce the risk of blood clots and statin drugs to lower cholesterol and advise PAD patients to participate in a structured exercise program.

13 Nov 2016

CRF to release new international journal focusing on diagnosis, treatment of structural heart disease

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation announced that it will launch a new international journal focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of structural heart disease and the importance of the heart team in managing these disorders.

11 Nov 2016

TSRI study suggests new approach to limit tumor growth by targeting immune system cells

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests there may be a way to limit tumor growth by targeting immune system cells called macrophages.

11 Nov 2016

Scientists discover sensor that may regulate tension in blood vessels

Physical forces like blood pressure and the shear stress of flowing blood are important parameters for the tension of blood vessels.

10 Nov 2016

Specialist receives nearly $2.8 million grant to determine effective treatment for perinatal brain injury

Barbara Stonestreet, MD, a neonatal-perinatal specialist at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, and professor of pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, has received a five-year, nearly $2.8 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for her research into determining the most effective strategies for the treatment of perinatal brain injury in full-term and premature infants.

8 Nov 2016

Researchers discover signaling pathway that can stop brain tumor formation in animal models

A research team at the Krembil Research Institute has discovered that a signaling pathway which controls blood vessel development in the brain has the ability to stop brain tumor formation in animal models of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor diagnosed in children.

8 Nov 2016

Researchers discover antibody that can protect fetus from Zika virus in pregnant mice

The most devastating consequence of Zika virus infection is the development of microcephaly, or an abnormally small head, in babies who were infected in utero.

7 Nov 2016

New treatment may reduce side effects linked to transfusions of red blood cells

A new treatment may diminish a dangerous side effect associated with transfusions of red blood cells (RBCs) known as pulmonary hypertension, an elevated blood pressure in the lungs and heart that can lead to heart failure, suggests a new study published in the November issue of Anesthesiology, the peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

7 Nov 2016

New treatment with therapeutic short interfering RNA could help thwart cancer

In the fight against cancer, doctors dish out combination-blows of surgery, chemotherapy and other drugs to beat back a merciless foe. Now, scientists have taken early steps toward adding a stinging punch to clinicians' repertoire.

7 Nov 2016

Stem cell therapy appears to dampen the body's neuroinflammatory response to trauma, preserve brain tissue

Results of a cellular therapy clinical trial for traumatic brain injury (TBI) using a patient's own stem cells showed that the therapy appears to dampen the body's neuroinflammatory response to trauma and preserve brain tissue, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

4 Nov 2016

Researchers describe new method that can reveal distinct invasive properties of cancer cells

A research team at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has described the steps, in both written and video format, that allow cancer investigators to track, in real time, cancer cell invasion and metastasis in transparent zebrafish embryos.

4 Nov 2016

Researchers working on breast-friendly, radiation-free method to detect possible breast cancer

Each year around a million women in the Netherlands undergo mammograms for early detection of possible breast cancer. It's an unpleasant procedure that uses X-rays. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology are working on a 'breast-friendly' method, without radiation, that is more accurate and generates 3D rather than 2D images.

4 Nov 2016

New digital X-Ray detector uses novel photonics technology to make diagnosis safer for patients, hospital

A European health consortium is developing a set of low radiation, low cost, flat panel X-ray detectors that use novel photonics technology to make diagnosis safer for patients, hospital and dental staff, generating some of the highest resolution images ever seen in rapid moving body functions, such as malicious growths or the beating heart of a baby.

2 Nov 2016

New study to explore impact of vitamin K supplement on cardiovascular health of obese children

Researchers want to know whether a vitamin K supplement is an effective, inexpensive way to help reduce the cardiovascular risk of obese children.

1 Nov 2016

Blood Vessels News and Research

UT Physicians expands Sickle Cell Center to accommodate growing number of patients

PET/CT imaging can effectively measure coronary artery calcification for assessing heart attack risk

Statins can help prevent first time heart attacks, strokes in adults with cardiovascular risk factors

Research shows workings of biochemical pathway that helps control blood glucose

USPSTF recommends use of low- to moderate-dose statins for preventing CVD events in adults

Study finds two differing medications to be safe and effective for preventing blood clots during PCI

New guidelines recommend use of antiplatelet therapy and exercise program for treatment of PAD

CRF to release new international journal focusing on diagnosis, treatment of structural heart disease

TSRI study suggests new approach to limit tumor growth by targeting immune system cells

Scientists discover sensor that may regulate tension in blood vessels

Specialist receives nearly $2.8 million grant to determine effective treatment for perinatal brain injury

Researchers discover signaling pathway that can stop brain tumor formation in animal models

Researchers discover antibody that can protect fetus from Zika virus in pregnant mice

New treatment may reduce side effects linked to transfusions of red blood cells

New treatment with therapeutic short interfering RNA could help thwart cancer

Stem cell therapy appears to dampen the body's neuroinflammatory response to trauma, preserve brain tissue

Researchers describe new method that can reveal distinct invasive properties of cancer cells

Researchers working on breast-friendly, radiation-free method to detect possible breast cancer

New digital X-Ray detector uses novel photonics technology to make diagnosis safer for patients, hospital

New study to explore impact of vitamin K supplement on cardiovascular health of obese children

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