by Houston Methodist Patients with prior COVID have higher rates of impaired MFR indicating cardiovascular disease. Variant and severity of infection influence the rates of impaired MFR. Data also suggests impaired MFR could be reversible. Credit: Houston Methodist Patients infected with beta and delta COVID-19 variants, and those who required hospital stays for COVID-19 infection, were...
by Thamarasee Jeewandara, Medical Xpress Summary of wound healing types and treatments. Following an injury stimulus, acute wounds treated either heal or persist to chronic wounds. Depending on the clinical presentation, several different treatments are provided. NPWT, negative pressure wound therapy. Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade7007 Patients who undergo skin injuries endure hospital stays,...
05 June 2023 By CARLY CASSELLA (Todorean Gabriel/Getty Images) The “dissociative anesthetic” ketamine looks ever more promising as a safe and effective treatment for intractable depression. A new randomized trial from researchers in the United States has shown that injections of ketamine are at least as effective as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) when treating non-psychotic forms of major depression. After starting...
Andrew Gregory Health editor in Chicago Thousands of bowel cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy, a study suggests, after doctors discovered they could rely on chemotherapy and surgery alone to treat their disease. Radiotherapy has been used to treat bowel cancer patients for decades, but the side-effects can be brutal. It can cause problems that...
by University of Sydney Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research has revealed being active could lower the risk of type 2 diabetes, even in people with a high genetic risk of developing the medical condition. The University of Sydney-led study found higher levels of total physical activity, especially moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity, had a strong association with...
by Elana Gotkine For patients with stroke of recent onset or progression of stroke symptoms and no occlusion of large or medium-sized cerebral vessels, intravenous tirofiban is associated with an increased likelihood of an excellent outcome, according to a study published online June 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Wenjie Zi, M.D., from the...
by Paris Brain Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Thanks to the collaboration between teams from the AP-HP, the MedTech METAFORA biosystems, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, Cerba Healthcare, and more than 30 investigating centers coordinated by Professor Fanny Mochel at Paris Brain Institute, a reliable and rapid blood test now enables early diagnosis of...
REUTERS Jun 3, 2023, 04:15 PM EDT (Reuters) -Cancer test maker Grail Inc said on Friday that its telemedicine vendor erroneously sent letters to about 400 patients suggesting they may have developed cancer. Grail’s flagship cancer detection blood test Galleri is designed to detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear. The company,...
HEALTH 05 June 2023By MICHELLE STARR Axial MRI of a pus-filled brain abscess from a 7-year-old patient. (Sheehan et al., J. Neurosurg., 2008) Following the easing of pandemic restrictions in the US, cases of brain abscess in children under 18 have risen to new heights, according to a pair of CDC reports. December 2022 saw a peak of 102 cases across the...
Neil Osterweil June 04, 2023 CHICAGO — Patients with a certain type of brain tumor could soon be treated with an oral targeted drug instead of undergoing more toxic chemotherapy and radiation, say researchers reporting new results that could potentially change the treatment landscape. The investigational drug vorasidenib (Servier) is awaiting approval for use in gliomas bearing...
