by American College of Cardiology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For people with heart failure, restricting dietary sodium intake to levels below the standard recommended maximum of about 2.3 grams per day does not bring additional benefits and may increase the risk of death, according to findings from nine randomized controlled trials in a new meta-analysis...
By Alix Martichoux | Feb. 24, 2023 (NEXSTAR) – Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve learned a lot about the virus, and have developed vaccines and antiviral treatments that make the prospect of contracting the virus less deadly for most people. But one aspect of the virus that remains frustratingly mysterious, and scary...
By Lena H. Sun February 25, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning clinicians and public health departments about a sharp rise in serious gastrointestinal infections caused by bacteria that are resistant to common antibiotics. In a health advisory issued Friday, the CDC said the agency has been monitoring an increase...
A study of bone scans is helping scientists determine the prevalence of cardiac amyloidosis. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images During a nuclear bone scan, known as bone scintigraphy, patients may unexpectedly show high levels of DPD uptake (a cardiac radiotracer), indicating the presence of cardiac amyloidosis. Previously thought to be uncommon, recent advancements in diagnosis...
Fran Lowry February 23, 2023 Wearable electronic devices such as smart watches, worn by consumers to monitor their health, could interfere with the correct working of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), posing serious health risks to these patients. Researchers at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, found that certain fitness trackers, such as smart watches,...
Megan Brooks January 20, 2023 A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) offers a standardized approach to rapidly evaluate patients with suspected transient ischemic attack (TIA), keeping in mind the challenges faced by rural centers with limited resources. TIAs are “warning shots” of a future stroke and require emergency evaluation, Hardik Amin, MD, chair...
Earth & Energy/ Biofuel/ Chevron/ EPA Image by Getty / Futurism Surprise! It turns out that the process to create “biofuels” from plastic waste — a hallmark of Chevron’s “climate-friendly” fuel pledge — would be so toxic, it could literally cause cancer. As The Guardian reports in tandem with ProPublica, records obtained by the news outlets reveal that, per the Environmental Protection...
by Elana Gotkine Use of diagnostic criteria for vestibular migraine (VM) combined with the area-under-the-curve ratio of the summating potentials and action potentials curves on electrocochleography (ECoG) is better for predicting symptom improvement than diagnostic criteria alone, according to a study published online Dec. 26 in Audiology Research. Paul Tabet, M.D., from the University of Montreal...
by Kelsey Simpkins, University of Colorado at Boulder Particle size distribution of MHV in saliva when aerosolized at 25% RH (blue) and 60% RH (green) as judged by RNA relative abundance in 11 MOUDI stages. Airborne MHV was aged for 20 minutes at constant RH in the chamber, and RNA was assessed with RT-qPCR. Credit: PNAS Nexus (2022)....
By Tarun Sai Lomte Feb 21 2023 Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. A recent study published in the journal Medical Clinics of North America discussed the diagnosis, treatment, and pathophysiology of alcoholic hepatitis (AH). AH is characterized by aggravating or new-onset jaundice due to heavy alcohol use with less than two months of abstinence before jaundice onset. Moreover, the risk...
