Study Offers Clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'
... the patient is having a heart attack. The mystery deepens in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, when the interventional cardiologist finds no blockage in the coronary arteries. To date, the registry has enrolled 40 patients diagnosed with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy at two major hospitals in Rhode Islan...Effect Of Growth Factor Signals On Cancer Development
... the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine deepens the understanding of how the growth hormone/IGF system is affected by another important actor: p53, the tumor suppressor gene that puts the brakes on cancer. The interplay of the two signaling pathways reinforces questions about the long-term risks o...Injury Severity Is Possible Risk for PTSD, Depression
...der (PTSD) later. The emotional impact of injury deepens in the first year after evacuation from combat. The presence of PTSD or depression seven months after a soldier was seriously injured was associated with the severity of the physical problem one month after the actual injury. These findings came from......proved diagnostic methods to identify dyslexia and deepens understanding of how the reading process works on a molecular level," said Jeffrey R. Gruen, M.D. from Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. "We now have strong statistical evidence that a large number of dyslexic cases--perhaps as ...