By Tim Newman Fact checked by Jasmin Collier A recent study has concluded that people with both higher-than-normal and lower-than-normal levels of hemoglobin have a higher risk of developing dementia as they age. Hemoglobin is a protein present in red blood cells. It is responsible for carrying life giving oxygen from the lungs to the...
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No bleeding required: Anemia detection via smartphone
Biomedical engineers have developed a smartphone app for the non-invasive detection of anemia. Instead of a blood test, the app uses photos of someone’s fingernails taken on a smartphone to accurately measure how much hemoglobin is in their blood. The results are scheduled for publication in Nature Communications. Fingernail beds are ideal for detection of anemia because they don’t contain melanin. Credit: From Mannino et al Nature Communications 2018...
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Immunotherapy side effects may be more common than thought
Elizabeth Jane Cathcart-Rake, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues used administrative claims data from a large U.S. commercial insurance database (OptumLabs Data Warehouse) to retrospectively identify patients with NSCLC who received programmed cell death 1 or programmed death ligand 1 inhibitors from 2015 through 2017. The frequencies of immune-related adverse events...
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‘BioSimilar’ drug approved to treat certain types of anemia
(HealthDay)—Retacrit (epoetin alfa-epbx) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first “biosimilar” to the anemia drugs Epogen and Procrit. A biosimilar, derived from a living organism, has been proven to be “highly similar” to a product that’s already been approved by the FDA. It’s also been shown to have no...
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Scientists test potential new way to treat anemia
Treatment of anemia caused by chronic kidney disease or other diseases often requires repeated—and costly—injections or infusions of an artificial form of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO), which stimulates the production of red blood cells. Now a Vanderbilt-led research team has shown they can reverse anemia in mice by injecting a kind of white blood cell called a...
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Anemia and hearing loss: Is there a link?
The association between iron deficiency anemia and hearing loss is explored in a recent study, published in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery. Could such a common blood condition impact our ability to hear? Hearing loss and anemia appear to be linked, according to recent studies. An estimated 15 percent of adults in the United States are...
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