Topic: John Radcliffe Hospital

Hundreds say goodbye to Ciara Wooller

Hundreds of mourners, young and old, packed a Tilehurst church to celebrate the life of 12-year-old Ciara Wooller.. . The funeral service of the...

Aspirin can reduce cancer deaths, study finds

0 . Aspirin, a century-old medicine known to relieve pain and prevent blood clots, also reduces the risk of death from a variety of cancers...
A series of bad outcomes has resulted in pediatric heart surgeries being halted completely at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England. While the investigators did say that their surgeon was not to blame for the deaths, they did say that Dr. Caner ...

Call to close child heart op unit

A children's heart surgery unit at a hospital where four babies died is set to close following a Government review.. Heart operations on children were suspended at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford earlier this year after the babies died within ...

Sickle Cell Disease at 100 Years

A 100th anniversary is often a cause for celebration. Just over 60 years ago, sickle cell disease (SCD) was heralded as the first "molecular" disease (2), resulting from a single amino acid substitution in the -globin chain of hemoglobin (HbA). Despite extensive ...
Variability in systolic blood pressure (SBP) from visit to visit and maximum SBP are predictors of stroke, and the effect of drug classes on interindividual variation in blood pressure may explain the different effects of antihypertensive drugs on stroke risk, according to ...
The risk of developing dementia after stroke is higher in patients who have had multiple strokes, according to a study published online Sept. 24 in The Lancet Neurology.. Sarah T. Pendlebury and Peter M. Rothwell of John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, U ...
Though the risk of recurrent bleeding in patients with a ruptured intracranial aneurysm is higher in those treated with endovascular coiling compared to surgical clipping, the risk of later death was lower in the coiled group, according to research published online March ...
ere's why some experts believe that spontaneous sneezing could mean you're in the mood.... **** Hatchoo! British researchers, as reported by the BBC, became interested in the topic after they discovered a patient who had uncontrollable sneezing episodes when he thought ...
Women who suspect a man of having sex on the brain should listen out for a sneeze, as a pair of British doctors say that sneezing may be a sign of arousal.In an unusual paper published on Friday in the prestigious ...