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6 simple ways to lose a little weight
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- Written by Dana Sparks
- Category: Health News
Losing just 3-5 percent of your body weight has major health benefits. That's a great excuse to start small.
Mayo Clinic implements Epic at Mayo Clinic Health System sites in Minnesota
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- Written by Rhoda Madson
- Category: Medical News
Mayo Clinic's move toward a single, integrated electronic health record and billing system continues with the implementation of Epic at Mayo Clinic Health System sites in Minnesota.
Leptospirosis in Puerto Rico
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- Written by Deborah Balzer
- Category: Latest News
At least 76 confirmed and suspected cases of a bacterial infection called leptospirosis have been reported in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria swept through the island in September. Dr. Pritish Tosh, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases specialist, says, "Leptospirosis is a serious infection that people can often get when they are exposed to contaminated water."
NIH study finds donor corneas can be safely preserved for longer period
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- Written by Kathryn DeMott
- Category: Medical News
Results from a large, national clinical trial show that corneal donor tissue can be safely stored for 11 days without negatively impacting the success of transplantation surgery to restore vision in people with diseases of the cornea. The cornea is the eye's clear outer covering. Currently, donor corneas are generally not used for surgery in the United States if they have been preserved for longer than seven days. Two reports from the Cornea Preservation Time Study (CPTS), which was funded by the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, appear online November 10 in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Cellphone-based microscope leads to possible strategy for treating river blindness
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- Written by Elizabeth Deatrick
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River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a disease caused by a parasitic worm found primarily in Africa. The worm (Onchocerca volvulus) is transmitted to humans as immature larvae through bites of infected black flies. Symptoms of infection include intense itching and skin nodules. Left untreated, infections in the eye can cause vision impairment that leads to blindness. Mass distribution of ivermectin is currently used to treat onchocerciasis. However, this treatment can be fatal when a person has high blood levels of another filarial worm, Loa loa.
NIH awards to test ways to store, access, share, and compute on biomedical data in the cloud
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Twelve awards totaling $9 million in Fiscal Year 2017 will launch a National Institutes of Health Data Commons Pilot Phase. A data commons is a shared virtual space where scientists can work with the digital objects of biomedical research, such as data and analytical tools. The NIH Data Commons will be implemented in a four-year pilot phase to explore the feasibility and best practices for making digital objects available through collaborative platforms. This will be done on public clouds, which are virtual spaces where service providers make resources, such as applications and storage, available over the internet.
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