Written by Austin Ulrich, PharmD, BCACP | Reviewed by Sophie Vergnaud, MDUpdated on July 21, 2022 Key takeaways: If you stop taking your statin medication, like atorvastatin (Lipitor), you could have a higher risk of heart problems, including heart attack and stroke. Your healthcare provider may recommend stopping your statin if you have serious side effects. Sometimes they...
by German Cancer Research Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In mice, inflammation in early to mid-life leads to a permanent decline in functional blood stem cells, according to a recent publication by scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Stem Cell Institute HI-STEM. The ability of the blood stem cells to regenerate...
by University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Blood clots are thought to occur in as many as a third of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. In many cases these clots can be deadly, such as pulmonary embolisms—blood clots that travel to the lungs. In fact, in nearly one third of patients with COVID-19, these clots...
by Ochsner Health System Credit: Christopher J. White et al, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.05.007 Research from Ochsner Health published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology is likely to influence expanded insurance coverage for carotid artery stenting. When it comes to options for cardiac patients, carotid artery stenting is...
by Steve Martin, Purdue University Xiaoping Bao, Purdue University assistant professor from the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. Credit: Xiaoping Bao A Purdue University chemical engineer has improved upon traditional methods to produce off-the-shelf human immune cells that show strong antitumor activity, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports. Xiaoping Bao, a...
by British Medical Journal Gardasil vaccine and box. Image: Wikipedia Giving women the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine around the time they have surgery for precancerous cervical lesions might lead to a reduction in the risk of lesions returning as well as other HPV-related diseases, suggests a study published by The BMJ today. The researchers stress, however, that...
Monkeypox has now spread to at least 75 countries with over 5,000 cases in the United States and more than 800 cases in California as of July 31, according to the California Department of Health. California’s governor on Monday declared a state of emergency to speed efforts to combat the monkeypox outbreak, becoming the second state in three days to take...
by Madeline Barron, American Society for Microbiology Plasmodium lifecycle. Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plasmodium_lifecycle_PHIL_3405_lores.jpg Malaria has plagued human populations for millennia. Caused by species of Plasmodium parasites, which spread to, and between, humans through the bite of Anopheles mosquitos, malaria triggers symptoms ranging from fever and nausea to organ failure and severe anemia. The disease is endemic to...
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Turning down the thermostat seems to make it harder for cancer cells to grow, according to a study in mice by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The study, published in the journal Nature, found that chilly temperatures activate heat-producing brown fat that consumes the sugars the tumors need...
by Catherine Graham, Johns Hopkins University Overview of workflow for assessing drug response from cancer cells. (a) Schematic workflow for directly assaying diseased cells from patient liquid biopsy samples for subsequent drug combination screening. Cell-trapping PDMS microfluidic chambers (turquoise) and Au electrode arrays (gold) of the assembled device allow cell purification from blood and subsequent...
