People with alcohol dependency lack important enzyme
A research group under the leadership of Linköping University Professor Markus Heilig has identified an enzyme whose production is turned off in nerve cells of the frontal lobe…
Younger heart attack survivors may face premature heart disease death
For patients age 50 and younger, the risk of premature death after aheart attack has dropped significantly, but their risk is still almost twice as high when compared…
5-year study reveals patients operated on at night twice as likely to die as patients who have daytime operations
New research presented at this year’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong shows that patients who have surgery during the night are twice as likely to…
MORE-CARE: No Clinical Benefit for Cardiac Device Remote Monitoring
Heart failure patients fitted with biventricular defibrillators (CRT-D) fared no better with remote monitoring (RM) of their condition compared to those whose devices were monitored during in-clinic visits,…
Folic acid fortified food linked to decline in congenital heart defects
Food fortified with folic acid, a B vitamin required in human diets for numerous biological functions, was associated with reduced rates of congenital heart defects, according to new…