Travel Health and Medicine

Researchers to study protein fragments following heart attack

4 Sep 2010

A blood test to diagnose which heart attack survivors will suffer heart failure is the goal of a new five-year, $11.6 million contract to the UT Health Science Center San Antonio from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

Health clinic to open soon

3 Sep 2010

A combination community health clinic and student health center on the campus of Susquehanna University will not open until Sept. 28, but calls for appointments are already flooding in.

Researchers find link between surgery duration with deep venous thrombosis risk

3 Sep 2010

One of the most severe complications of brain surgery is a life-threatening blood clot in the lungs called a pulmonary embolism.But a Loyola University Health System study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery suggests that screening methods hospitals typically use to access the risk of pulmonary embolisms may fall short.