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Cost of heart drugs makes patients skip pills, putting themselves at risk
— 30 Mar 2011 17:19 | HealthFor more than 5 million Americans with heart failure, a critical step to better health is taking the medications they're prescribed. But many patients fail to do so, putting themselves…
Mayo Clinic researchers find cardiac pacing helps epilepsy patients with ictal asystole
— 28 Mar 2011 17:02 | HealthMayo Clinic researchers have found that cardiac pacing may help epilepsy patients with seizure-related falls due to ictal asystole, an unusual condition in which the heart stops beating…
Mayo Clinic researchers tie Parkinson's drugs to impulse control problems
— 28 Mar 2011 16:57 | HealthMayo Clinic researchers found that dopamine agonists used in treating Parkinson's disease result in impulse control disorders in as many as 22 percent of patients…
Smoking abstinence found more effective with residential treatment
— 9 Mar 2011 19:47 | HealthIn the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers report that residential treatment for tobacco dependence among heavy smokers greatly improves the odds of abstinence at six…
Mayo Clinic researchers confirm value of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest
— 19 Feb 2011 10:15 | HealthMayo Clinic researchers confirmed that patients who receive therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest have favourable chances of surviving the event and recovering…
Mayo researchers pinpoint how 1 cancer gene functions
— 3 Feb 2011 17:09 | HealthFor several decades, researchers have been linking genetic mutations to diseases ranging from cancer to developmental abnormalities. What hasn't been clear, however, is how the body's…
New study alters long-held beliefs about shingles
— 1 Feb 2011 21:41 | HealthFor decades, medical wisdom about shingles has been that it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The commonly-held belief is that patients are protected from a recurrence of the herpes…
Feast or famine: Researchers identify leptin receptor's sidekick as a target for appetite regulation
— 12 Jan 2011 18:01 | HealthA study by researchers at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida and Washington University School of Medicine adds a new twist to the body of evidence suggesting human obesity is due in part…
Mayo researchers describe measles viral protein movement
— 9 Jan 2011 19:11 | HealthMayo Clinic researchers have shown that proteins on the surface of a cell twist a viral protein into position, allowing the virus to start infection and cause disease, all in a movement…
Researchers find gene that protects against dementia in high-risk individuals
— 3 Jan 2011 19:23 | HealthNeuroscientists had assumed that a mutation in the progranulin gene, which makes the progranulin protein and supports brain neurones, was sufficient to produce a kind of dementia known…