PALO ALTO, CA (ASRN.ORG)- Stanford specialists are working with officials from North Korea to develop that country's first diagnostic laboratory to test drug-resistant tuberculosis.
LOS ANGELES (ASRN.ORG)- Gaps in care and outcomes between older and younger ischemic stroke patients are diminishing as hospitals improve adherence to treatments, according to a new UCLA study.
ANN ARBOR, MI (ASRN.ORG)- The state of Michigan, which used a five-step checklist developed at Johns Hopkins to virtually eliminate bloodstream infections in its hospitals’ intensive care units, has been able to keep the number of these common, costly and potentially lethal infections near zero — even three years after first adopting the standardized procedures.
BOSTON (ASRN.ORG)- People with anorexia nervosa, paradoxically, have strikingly high levels of fat within their bone marrow, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Their findings, based on MRI imaging of the knees of 20 girls with anorexia and 20 healthy girls of the same age.
BOSTON (ASRN.ORG)- Even when their tumors are shrinking in response to therapy, some non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients have a scattering of cancer cells that are undeterred by the drug, causing the tumor to resume its growth, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center scientists reported.
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