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Please enable Javascript to watch this video ST. LOUIS – The new SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital – opening September 1, 2020 – isn’t only a new home for academic medicine in St. Louis. It will be home to a new concept in patient care that will benefit patients visiting our Level 1 Trauma …

At least one additive — a preservative called propionate — could be linked to diabetes and obesity. Published: September, 2019 Scientists are giving food additives and other ingredients more scrutiny these days, thanks to new technology that allows them to get an up-close view of how individual molecules affect the body. And they are already …

The first attempt at a heart transplantation in Britain had actually taken place 11 years earlier, but the patient had lived for only 45 days. Similarly poor outcomes in a number of patients over the following year persuaded health chiefs to ban the practice. But by 1979 the powerful immunosuppressant drug ciclosporin had been discovered, …

Research we’re watching Published: September, 2019 Infections — especially those in the urinary tract, known as UTIs — may raise the risk of a stroke, a new study finds. Researchers examined the electronic medical records of more than 191,000 stroke patients to see if they’d been hospitalized or gone to an emergency room for an …

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s prison death has been ruled a suicide by hanging, the medical examiner’s office said Friday. Epstein, 66, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on Aug. 10, touching off outrage and disbelief over how such a high-profile prisoner, known for socializing …

Ongoing efforts seek to better identify and treat familial hypercholesterolemia, a leading cause of early heart attacks. Published: September, 2019 Some 35 million Americans have cholesterol values that put them at high risk for heart disease. The vast majority likely have dozens of different genetic mutations, each of which raises cholesterol by a little bit. …

WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS) — A dachshund  in South Jersey is making medical history. For the first time, 3D technology designed for humans was used to guide spine surgery on the dog. The technology allows doctors to see and touch what they’ll be operating on before surgery. Lorraine Young is relieved to see her beloved …

The health care system is changing fast, and future physicians need to understand their role and ethical obligations in helping ensure patients’ health and well-being is maximized, while the costs are minimized, in an environment that provides a patient-centered experience. An education module offered via the AMA Ed Hub™ helps medical students—and residents and physicians …

OGDEN — Ogden City police released the name of a man fatally shot by police Wednesday after they say he broke into a Roy medical clinic and then attacked officers with a knife. About 1:50 a.m., Donald Lee Joseph, 37, allegedly broke into the Tanner Clinic, 3443 W. 5600 South, through a window he’d broken …

OGDEN — Ogden City police released the name of a man shot by officers Wednesday after police say he broke into a Roy medical clinic and then attacked officers with a knife. About 1:50 a.m., Donald Lee Joseph, 37, allegedly broke into the Tanner Clinic, 3443 W. 5600 South, through a window he’d broken with …