medicine research

More patients with drug-coated cardiac stents survive, avoid cos...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 05/21/2008 - 23:00

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Patients with drug-coated stents are less apt to die, have heart attacks or require extra stents or bypass surgery in the two years following placement of the stent, compared to those who receive bare metal stents, according to University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research that will be published in the May 27 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology


 

Spinal cord injury research hampered by animal models, says new ...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 04/27/2008 - 23:00

(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) Research on traumatic spinal cord injuries is hampered by a reliance on animal experiments that don’t accurately predict human outcomes, says a new study in the upcoming edition of the peer-reviewed journal Reviews in the Neurosciences.

The review was written by scientists with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.