by American Society of Hematology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Early improvements in cardiac and hematologic parameters may predict better survival outcomes for patients being treated for stage IIIb AL amyloidosis, a deadly disease with a median survival of four to six months caused by abnormal protein buildup, according to research published in Blood Advances. Amyloidosis occurs when...
by Karl Morgan, The Conversation ACL injuries can happen while playing sports or even be caused by a fall. Credit: VGstockstudio/ Shutterstock Between 25 and 30 players have missed out on the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup due to an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. While ACL injuries are reasonably common in athletes, the rate of this type of injury...
PUBLISHED TUE, AUG 15 2023 9:37 AM EDT YouTube on Tuesday announced a new policy for combatting medical misinformation on the video-sharing platform. The company will remove content that contradicts well-established guidance from health officials about topics like Covid-19, reproductive health, cancer and harmful substances, among others. YouTube said it will determine whether a condition...
Bianca Nogrady August 04, 2023 Most cases of virologic failure on dolutegravir treatment for HIV are likely due to adherence problems and more time on treatment is needed before switching to another drug, according to new data from the ADVANCE trial. “What we saw was a faster time to re-suppression in the people followed-up long term on dolutegravir and also a...
John M. Mandrola, MD August 10, 2023 Questions about omega-3 fatty acid supplements come up often in the atrial fibrillation (AF) clinic. The story begins with the simple observation that populations who eat lots of oily fish have fewer coronary events. This correlation provoked great interest in concentrating fish oils in pill form and studying their use of to promote...
SAARLAND UNIVERSITY IMAGE: LAURA ZIEGLER CREDIT: THORSTEN MOHR/SAARLAND UNIVERSITY ‘The question seems so banal, so trivial that nobody before has thought to ask it, says Professor Martina Sester at the start of our conversation about the work of her doctoral student Laura Ziegler. What might at first sound like a bit of a put down...
by Society of Nuclear Medicine Credit: Journal of Nuclear Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.122.265371 In elderly patients with suspected prostate cancer, a prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography (PSMA PET) CT scan can diagnose advanced disease and aid in therapy selection without the need for a biopsy. Published in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, this new...
By Michael Erman August 14, 2023 4:47 AM MST Updated 3 hours ago A vial labelled “VACCINE Coronavirus COVID-19” is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken on January 17, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) – A new COVID vaccine is due out next month, but health...
Nicole Longo August 2, 2023 New report: Hospitals mark up medicine prices 500% . Despite a myopic focus on drug spending, roughly 30% of every dollar spent on health care in the United States can be attributed to hospitals. Almost 4 times more is spent on hospitals than on retail prescription medicines annually, and this trend is predicted to continue...
MONASH UNIVERSITY CREDIT: JIA TAN, POLO LABORATORY In a groundbreaking study published today in Nature, Australian scientists have resolved a long-standing problem in regenerative medicine. Led by Professor Ryan Lister from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University of Western Australia and Professor Jose M Polo from Monash University and the University of...
