At 4:07 p.m. PST, Shabazz Muhammad clicked send on the tweet UCLA fans have been waiting to read since the news broke months ago that he was being investigated by the NCAA.
"#Free," he wrote.
Indeed Muhammad is free. Free to play right away. Free to fulfill his goal of rejuvenating the UCLA...
A new conjugate vaccine is highly effective (93-100%) at preventing invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD; meningitis, sepsis, bacteremic pneumonia, and other blood-borne infections) in infants younger than 2 years who are the most vulnerable to infection, according to new research published Online...
As the number of fungal meningitis cases continues to rise, physicians across the country are faced with how best to provide the early treatment that can save lives. A University of Michigan Health System infectious disease expert is the lead author of a New England Journal of Medicine report...
Samsung Galasy S cellular telephone is really popular in these days.With 4.52” Super AMOLED Plus screen, movies and TV in your phone haven't looked better. Plus, HDMI output allows you to watch free movies, shows, video, or view photos on your own TV, starting from your phone. With all the above...
Sickle cell disease - the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States - causes red blood cells to distort into a crescent shape and block small blood vessels. New insights into how these abnormal cells disrupt circulation could lead to more effective treatment strategies, as...
Medicines could be made to have fewer side effects and work in smaller doses with the help of a new technique that makes drug molecules more resistant to breakdown by the human liver. Researchers based at Princeton University reported in the journal Science that they created a synthetic enzyme...
A favorite physical activity engaged in by Americans is bicycling, and children are perhaps its most ardent participants; it has been estimated that 70% of children ages 5 to 14 ride bicycles. Bicycling is not without its dangers, however, and one of the worst is the risk of head and brain...
A new study reveals that cognitive therapy over the phone is just as effective as meeting face-to-face. The research was published in the journal PLoS ONE. Researchers at the University of Cambridge together with the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied...
Prescription painkillers are responsible for more fatal overdoses in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined. And while most states have programs to curb abuse and addiction, a new report from Brandeis University shows that many states do not fully analyze the data they collect...
Global platelet reactivity is more effective than responsiveness to clopidogrel in identifying acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients at high risk of ischemic events, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2012. The results from the RECLOSE 2-ACS study were presented by Dr Rossella...
Misoprostol (Cytotec) was originally developed for treating gastric ulcers. However, the drug is increasingly being given to women during labor in low- and middle-income countries to prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Although misoprostol is included on the World Health Organization's...
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Nurse-centred care of HIV patients can be just as safe and effective as care delivered by doctors and has a number of specific health benefits, according to a new study led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the University of Cape Town (UCT). Published today in The Lancet, the research...
The oral DPP-4 inhibitor linagliptin has been declared safe and effective in reducing glucose levels for up to 102 weeks, either as a stand-alone treatment or in combination with other selected oral anti-diabetic drugs, according to extended trials of individuals with type 2 diabetes in 32...
Dr Changfa Guo, Professor Chunsheng Wang and their co-investigators from Zhongshan hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China have established a novel hyperbranched poly(amidoamine) (hPAMAM) nanoparticle based hypoxia regulated vascular endothelial growth factor (HRE-VEGF) gene therapy strategy...
Based on the results of a pooled analysis of 11 unrelated randomized clinical trials investigating vitamin D supplementation and fracture risk in more than 31,000 older adults, Bess Dawson-Hughes, MD, director of the Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research...
Routine screening with echocardiogram can detect three times as many cases of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) as clinical examinations, offering a novel approach in preventing this common disease, according to a new study in Circulation. The study, conducted by cardiologists from Children's...
In African women, an anti-AIDS treatment regimen that includes the drug nevirapine is as effective as a treatment regimen with the more expensive drugs, lopinavir/ritonavir, according to a study by a team of international researchers published in this week's PLoS Medicine. This finding is...
A study to evaluate birth control methods has found dramatic differences in their effectiveness. Women who used birth control pills, the patch or vaginal ring were 20 times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than those who used longer-acting forms such as an intrauterine device (IUD) or...