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“The risk of patients dying from sepsis increases the longer the diagnosis takes”
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[01/02/2012] On the website of the German Sepsis Society (Deutsche Sepsis-Gesellschaft) you can find the following definition for the disease called sepsis: A modern definition of sepsis was published in 1989 by Bone. He wrote: Sepsis is defined as an invasion of microorganisms and / or their toxins into the blood stream along with the reaction of the organism to the invasion. “The risk of patients dying from sepsis increases the longer the diagnosis takes” - Read more
Where Categories Live in the Brain
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[18/01/2012] Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire must instantaneously categorise a fast-moving pitch as a ball or a strike. In new research from the University of Chicago, scientists have pinpointed an area in the brain where these kinds of visual categories are encoded. Where Categories Live in the Brain - Read more
Novel Way to Prevent Drug-Induced Liver Injury
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[17/01/2012] Rutgers University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel strategy to protect the liver from drug-induced injury and improve associated drug safety. Novel Way to Prevent Drug-Induced Liver Injury - Read more
Research Suggests New Way to Ensure Effectiveness
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[29/12/2011] A UT Southwestern Medical Center study using a sophisticated "glass mouse" research model has found that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is more likely caused in patients by speedy drug metabolism rather than inconsistent doses, as is widely believed. Research Suggests New Way to Ensure Effectiveness - Read more
Discovered the Existence of Neutrophils in the Spleen
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[27/12/2011] For the first time, it has been discovered that neutrophils exist in the spleen without there being an infection. This important finding made by the research group on the Biology of B Cells of IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) in collaboration with researchers from Mount Sinai in New York, has also made it possible to determine that these neutrophils have an immunoregulating role. Discovered the Existence of Neutrophils in the Spleen - Read more
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