Many adult survivors of childhood cancer are not concerned about their future health or developing new cancers, according to a new study published in Cancer.
The thinking behind the Seattle Proportional Risk Model goes like this: As the annual risk for all-cause mortality increases, the likelihood that the death will be sudden—or something an ICD could prevent—goes down.
Sleep disturbances, including poor sleep quality and insomnia, are associated with increased blood pressure and vascular inflammation in women, according to a June 9 study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
A federal jury awarded a patient and her husband $15 million after Carmel, Indiana, physicians reportedly failed to identify a life-threatening tumor during a CT scan, the Indianapolis Business Journal has reported.
A large study utilizing automated mammography revealed a higher cancer rate in women with dense breast tissue compared to those with less-dense breasts, according to recent research published in Radiology
Employees of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History take a 68-million-year-old dinosaur skull to George Washington University. (Photo Credit: Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)
It’s not every day that imaging equipment is used to scan a 68-million-year-old dinosaur skull, but that’s exactly what happened at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
A mobile diabetes management application did not result in better blood glucose control, but it could be a useful tool in self-management. Findings were published June 26 in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.
Studies examining breast cancer risk and treatment outcomes are not adequately incorporating race and socioeconomic factors such as education level and economic status, according to a Johns Hopkins release.
A company called Novoheart has created the first 3D heart organoid—a miniature version of the real thing—which contains a hollow chamber similar to one of the four in a normal human heart. According to a story published by Wired, these mini-hearts could be used to test the effects of drug treatments before expensive human trials are necessary.
