News articles tagged with 'idiopathic'
Study shows that modern surgery for scoliosis has good long-term outcomes
— 6 Apr 2011 16:07 | HealthTeenagers who undergo spine fusion for scoliosis using the newest surgical techniques can expect to be doing well 10 years after surgery, according to a Hospital for Special Surgery…
Risk factors for venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism differ between races
— 24 Jun 2010 11:46 | HealthA new study of 1,960 White-Americans and 368 Black-Americans with objectively diagnosed venous thromboembolism (VTE) showed that, compared to Whites, Blacks had a significantly higher…
Study confirms favourable long-term prognosis of epilepsy
— 14 Jun 2010 16:08 | HealthA study conducted by researchers in The Netherlands confirmed that children with idiopathic new-onset epilepsy have a significantly higher rate of remission than those with remote symptomatic…
Researchers find target for pulmonary fibrosis
— 23 Aug 2009 17:00 | HealthA diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis is not much better than a death sentence: there is no treatment and the survival rate is less than three years. But researchers at the University…
Expert consensus on catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias
— 15 May 2009 09:23 | HealthA call to action for more research to be undertaken into catheter ablation in the field of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) has been issued in a joint consensus document from the European…
First gene for clubfoot identified
— 24 Oct 2008 14:02 | HealthClubfoot, one of the most common birth defects, has long been thought to have a genetic component. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they…
Biomarkers for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis identified
— 1 May 2008 18:38 | HealthThe first evidence of a distinctive protein signature that could help to transform the diagnosis and improve the monitoring of the devastating lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis…
Growth hormone used to treat twice as many short boys than girls in the USA and Asia
— 21 Apr 2008 13:12 | HealthBoys are twice as likely as girls in the U.S. and Asia (mostly Japan) to receive recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) for growth hormone deficiency, illnesses that affect height,…
Rare lung disease cells indicate higher death risk
— 17 Jan 2008 06:58 | HealthLarge numbers of certain cells in the lungs of patients diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis may increase their chance of death, University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have…
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