The findings from a study by a team based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) are published today in PLoS Medicine. Associations amidst birth size, perhaps as a marker of the pre-natal environment, and subsequent breast cancer risk have been identified before, but the findings...

Heart patients should be screened for depression — a common condition that can profoundly affect both prognosis and quality of life — according to the American Heart Association’s first scientific statement on depression and coronary heart disease. The statement was published...

In a recent study, nine pediatric patients with severe heart failure were successfully kept alive for an average of 35 days with miniaturized heart assist pumps while awaiting a heart transplant, according to a report in the Cardiovascular Surgery Supplement of Circulation: Journal of the American...

Bioheart, Inc., (Nasdaq: BHRT), announced that 35 of the main U.S. Heart Failure Centers have engaged in Bioheart’s Phase II/III MARVEL(1) Trial of myogenic cells for treating advanced heart failure. “With 35 main heart failure centers engaged, we are making ...

Evalve, Inc., the leader in the development of devices for the percutaneous repair of cardiac valves, announced the completion of randomized enrollment in the Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge REpair STudy (EVEREST), which is evaluating the MitraClip(R) system as a non-surgical repair...

Stimulant medications like those often prescribed for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) raise blood pressure and heart rate, and some drugs carry warning labels for patients with heart problems. Two professional organizations are at odds by whether routine electrocardiogram...

A new study by researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center has found that children as young as four can develop full-blown obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and often exhibit many of the same OCD characteristics typically seen in older kids. The study, published online by...

A new study published in the October 1 issue of JAMA reports that decreased colorectal cancer risk is linked to variation of a gene for a protein hormone that is secreted by fat cells. preceding research has pointed towards a link amoung colorectal cancer risk and obesity. Serum levels of adiponectin...

The risks and benefits of different cervical cancer prevention approaches may aid women to work with their physicians to implement the appropriate screening strategies, as analyzed by a model, reported in an write-up released on September 22, 2008 in Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives...

One in four women in San Diego County are not being screened for breast cancer and are at risk for developing the deadly disease, according to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, San Diego. Misinformation, language and cultural barriers, practical barriers and a lack of funding for state-wide...