By Naomi Thomas, CNN Updated 10:33 AM ET, Mon August 29, 2022 Statins are an important tool to prevent major cardiovascular problems, but many patients stop taking them because of side effects, including muscle pain. However, for more than 90% of patients on statins who experience muscle pain, the statin is not the cause of...
Month: <span>August 2022</span>
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‘It took everything’: the disease that can be contracted by breathing California’s air
Valley fever, derived from a fungus that lives in the US south-west’s soil, is on the rise as climate crisis dries out the landscape Valley fever is increasing in California’s Central Valley as the climate crisis creates a parched landscape where the fungus that causes the disease thrives. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images Dani Anguiano in...
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Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Publication Date: August 18, 2022 PRESS INQUIRIES Caption: The device senses and wirelessly transmits signals without bulky chips or batteries. Credits: Courtesy of the researchers Wearable sensors are ubiquitous thanks to wireless technology that enables a person’s glucose concentrations, blood pressure, heart rate, and activity levels to be transmitted...
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Examining the efficacy of lispro in postprandial glucose control for diabetes
by Science China Press (a) Mean HbA1c during lead-in and 26-week treatment. Data are mean at screening and LSM (± SE) for all other time points. Noninferiority of URLi versus insulin lispro was shown in change of HbA1c from baseline to week 26. (b) LSM post-prandial glucose excursions at weeks 26 during mixed-meal tolerance tests....
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School sports are starting again: Know the signs of concussion
As high school sports get underway this fall, sports medicine specialists remind athletes, parents and coaches that concussions can be challenging to diagnose. Dr. Sean Bradley, a primary care sports medicine physician at Ochsner Health in Baton Rouge, La., emphasizes that neither lab tests nor imaging techniques can determine whether a concussion has occurred. “A...
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ADHD drug Adderall in short supply
Labor shortages at Teva Pharmaceuticals have made Adderall, a widely used attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug, hard to find in some drugstores. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration noted that there’s no overall shortage of ADHD medications. Only Teva is reporting supply problems, FDA spokeswomen Cherie Duvall-Jones told NBC News. “Teva Pharmaceuticals, the maker for Adderall...
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What do you know about your risk for hernia?
Could you be at risk for a hernia? One expert gives the lowdown on hernias, who is most at risk for them, and how they are typically treated. Dr. Harvey Rainville, a general surgeon at Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center in New Jersey, said a hernia is a defect or opening in your muscle layer through which an...
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Acetazolamide helps treat volume overload in heart failure
For patients with acute decompensated heart failure, the addition of acetazolamide to loop diuretic therapy yields an increased incidence of successful decongestion, according to a study published online Aug. 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022, held from Aug. 26 to 29 in Barcelona, Spain. Wilfried...
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SENSOR DETECTS PARKINSON’S DURING SLEEP
The researchers used an artificial intelligence tool to sift through mountains of data from study participants to find patterns that identify the disease and determine severity. “I like to compare our understanding of Parkinson’s to a street lamp in the night; we only get a glimpse of the disease when patients visit clinic. Moreover, the...
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Researchers identify seven new areas in the insular cortex
by Helen Mendes, Human Brain Project Probability maps of the seven newly discovered areas of the insular cortex. Credit: Image from Quabs et al. 2022 Researchers of the Human Brain Project (HBP) have identified seven new areas of the human insular cortex, a region of the brain that is involved in a wide variety of...