By: Denise Chow, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/15/2013 08:08 AM EDT on LiveScience An ambitious, federally funded research initiative aim...
Hospitals and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) have been implementing strategies to decrease door-to-balloon (D2B) time. Not familiar with D2B? It's the term for the time it takes to get a heart attack victim to the hospital for a cardiac angioplasty procedure (heart cath).
Patriots fans, take good care of yourselves -- fans of losing teams in major sporting events have been known to experience higher risks of heart attacks for a couple weeks following an emotional championship game. Don't kill the messenger!
Last Wednesday on our NORML Stash blog we pointed out this incredible paragraph on the website of the National Cancer Institute at cancer.gov on their...
Investing in early childhood education can yield impressive economic benefits -- both for children and taxpayers, according to a National Institutes o...
Pioneers of the medical entrepreneurship movement are taking bigger risks on researchers, asking them to focus their energies on the initiatives that have the largest potential impact.
Yes, there are federal grants available to for-profit companies. But they are mostly limited to technical research and knowing which federal agencies need what you have to offer.
Basketball legend Bill Walton is beloved as much for his boundless enthusiasm and quirky individualism as for his hoops heroism. But the class and perseverance he's shown through decades of severe chronic back, leg and foot pain might just top his most courageous courtside achievements.
Today, heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. Sudden cardiac death is the most frequent presentation of the disease in women.
We are in the grips of a military-industrial complex for whom projects such as the Boston Biolab are as much meat and potatoes as any multi-billion dollar weapon system, no matter how dubious the need.
If you are willing to exercise regularly and eat on the slim side, even though the clock is ticking away, you can perform well both physically and mentally into your 90s.
If the future of our nation is not continually renewed by young Americans well supported in their advanced scientific research, we likely will have a very dim future indeed.
Dr. Collins has an unparalleled perspective on the nature of genetics and genomics, subjects that are the basis of a powerful new paradigm fueling collaborations among medical researchers.
While studies have consistently found that women initiate as much violence against their male partners as vice versa, two-thirds of domestic violence injuries are suffered by women.
Elizabeth Edwards is more than just a victim. She's also a powerful champion for women's health care and cancer issues. This is where my story intersects with hers.
