Archive for May, 2010

Your Neighborhood Determines Your Chance of Surviving Cardiac Arrest

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healthynerd
on 31 May 2010
in Heart Disease
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The odds of surviving cardiac arrest may depend on which part of town you call home and whether anyone in the neighborhood comes to your rescue by attempting to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to a first-of-its-kind study in the June issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Continue reading ‘Your Neighborhood Determines Your Chance of Surviving Cardiac Arrest’

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Sugar Band-Aid Heals Post-Surgery Wounds!

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healthynerd
on 31 May 2010
in Medical Research
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A compound found in sunless tanning spray may help to heal wounds following surgery, according to new results published by plastic surgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City and biomedical engineers at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where the novel compound was developed. Continue reading ‘Sugar Band-Aid Heals Post-Surgery Wounds!’

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