Columbia University Medical Center News
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Black people with a certain genetic variant may face a doubled risk of late-developing Alzheimer’s disease, a study found.
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Edwards Lifesciences Corp.’s Sapien XT, a slimmer version of its original device used to repair a calcified aortic valve in the heart, is just as effective and potentially easier to use, researchers said.
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Counting on improved mental-health care to help avert gun violence such as the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Tucson, Arizona, overlooks years of neglect and funding cuts.
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For two decades, doctors have used a dime-sized plug made by St. Jude Medical Inc. to close holes found in the hearts of stroke victims in a surgery that’s based largely on a medical theory.
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Birth defects can be spotted more precisely with advanced genetic tests that are performed on a fetus than with current prenatal tests, and may help pinpoint abnormalities that cause stillbirths, researchers said.
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Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda had a mild heart attack two days ago while attending Major League Baseball’s first-year draft in New York.
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Debbie McCarron was prepared to get both of her breasts taken off if a blood test in December 2006 revealed she carried a gene that vastly increases the risk of breast cancer. Having survived the disease five years earlier, she didn’t want to risk getting it again.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Dinakar Singh discovered in 2001 that his 19-month-old daughter, Arya, had a crippling genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy.
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Surgery using a St. Jude Medical Inc. device to close openings in the heart after a stroke drew mixed results in a company-funded study.
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St. Jude Medical Inc.’s device to plug openings in the heart after a stroke failed to definitively prevent repeat incidents in patients under age 60 compared with non-surgical drug treatment, two studies found.
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