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Medicare Card, No evidence to change current transfusion practices for adults undergoing complex cardiac surgery

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A National Institutes of Health-funded study found no statistical difference in the primary clinical measure — which assessed changes in function of six organs from before to seven days after surgery — between complex cardiac surgery patients receiving transfusions of red blood cell units stored for short (up to 10 days) versus long (21 or … Read more

Medicare Card, Learning About Genetically Modified Foods

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“Genetically modified,” and “genetically engineered.” These are the terms often heard when referring to certain foods. What do they mean for you as a consumer? According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, foods that have been genetically modified, like fruits, vegetables, oils, cereals, etc., were introduced to the market in the 1990s.  Since then, … Read more

Medicare Card, NIH study finds genetic link for rare intestinal cancer

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Heredity accounts for up to 35 percent of small intestinal carcinoid, a rare digestive cancer, according to findings from a team at the National Institutes of Health. The researchers examined families with a history of the disease. Because the disease has long been considered randomly occurring rather than inherited, people with a family history are … Read more

Medicare Card, NIH study demonstrates that a new cancer immunotherapy method could be effective against a wide range of cancers

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A new method for using immunotherapy to specifically attack tumor cells that have mutations unique to a patient’s cancer has been developed by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The researchers demonstrated that the human immune system can mount a response against mutant proteins expressed by cancers … Read more