Researchers
at Johns Hopkins may have discovered an unintended benefit in the drugs
millions of Americans take to lower their cholesterol: The medications,
all statins, seem to lower the risk of a potentially lethal blood
infection known as sepsis in patients on kidney dialysis.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that promises to be more effective than standard CPR because it increases nourishing blood flow through the heart by 25 percent over the current method.
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Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and
the University of Michigan have discovered a gene that protects us
against a serious kidney disease. In Nature Genetics they report that
mutations in the gene cause nephronopthisis (NPHP)
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