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Molecular signature could be mechanistically related to bleeding risk after heart surgery

Postoperative bleeding is one of the most common complications after cardiac surgeries, especially in open heart ones. In this kind of surgery, surgeons need to resort to cardiopulmonary bypass, an extracorporeal circuit composed of tubes and machines that replicate the function of the heart and lungs.

12 Oct 2022

Study finds an association between early diagnosis of diabetes and earlier menopause

Persons living with diabetes are at greater risk of a number of health conditions including eye and foot problems, heart attacks and strokes, and kidney and nerve damage.

12 Oct 2022

‘Separate and unequal’: Critics say Newsom’s pricey Medicaid reforms leave most patients behind

It wasn't exactly an emergency, but Michael Reed, a security guard who lives in Watts, had back pain and ran out of his blood pressure medication.

12 Oct 2022

Climate change magnifies health impacts of wildfire smoke in care deserts

Smoke began billowing into the skies of northwestern Nevada in September, clouding the mountains, dimming the sun — and quashing residents' hopes that they would be spared from wildfires and the awful air quality the blazes produce.

12 Oct 2022

Algorithms are as good as human evaluators at identifying signs of mental health issues in texts

UW Medicine researchers have found that algorithms are as good as trained human evaluators at identifying red-flag language in text messages from people with serious mental illness.

11 Oct 2022

CPR training spans across India in advance of the World Restart a Heart Day

Only 2% of adults in India know how to perform CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The American Heart Association - the world's leading voluntary health organization devoted to longer, healthier, live for all - and the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) - a group of autonomous government public medical universities– are working together to train more than 150,000 students, community health care workers and others in the public in multiple states within India to reverse this trend.

11 Oct 2022

Thirdhand smoke exposure elevates biomarkers associated with the initiation of skin diseases

Thirdhand smoke, or THS, comprises the residual pollutants from tobacco smoke that remain on surfaces and in dust after tobacco has been smoked.

11 Oct 2022

Common diabetes medication identified as a possible treatment for atrial fibrillation

Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified a common diabetes medication, metformin, as a possible treatment for atrial fibrillation.

11 Oct 2022

Virginia Tech graduate student receives NIH grant to explore new ways to treat arrythmias

Zach Williams thought he'd become a cancer researcher when he joined Virginia Tech's Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program three years ago.

11 Oct 2022

Oxford researchers report findings from Phase 1 clinical trial of intranasal COVID-19 vaccine

Researchers from the University of Oxford have today reported new findings from a Phase 1 clinical trial studying the safety and immune response of an intranasally-administered vaccine against COVID-19.

11 Oct 2022

Mask use in children shown to cause no respiratory distress

In a new study, researchers investigated whether surgical and N95 face masks cause respiratory distress in children.

11 Oct 2022

Video games may trigger life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in susceptible children

Electronic gaming can precipitate life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in susceptible children whose predisposition may have been previously unrecognized, according to a new report in Heart Rhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, and the Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society, published by Elsevier.

11 Oct 2022

10 new centers to deliver CT scans, MRIs and x-rays across England

Community diagnostic centers (CDCs) have delivered more than two million vital tests, checks and scans for patients, with a further 10 centers now approved, the Health and Social Care Secretary has announced today October 11.

11 Oct 2022

Hospitals have been slow to bring on addiction specialists

In December, Marie, who lives in coastal Swampscott, Massachusetts, began having trouble breathing. Three days after Christmas, she woke up gasping for air and dialed 911.

11 Oct 2022

Timely COVID-19 boosters may prevent care facility outbreaks

A new study examines vaccine efficacy during an outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a long-term care facility.

11 Oct 2022

Infant’s brain “plastic” enough to reorganize language to the opposite side after perinatal stroke

A clinical study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center found that, for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of their birth, the infant's brain was 'plastic' enough for the right hemisphere to acquire the language abilities ordinarily handled by the left side while also maintaining its own language abilities as well.

10 Oct 2022

Saliency heat maps may not be yet ready for prime time, study shows

Artificial intelligence models that interpret medical images hold the promise to enhance clinicians' ability to make accurate and timely diagnoses, while also lessening workload by allowing busy physicians to focus on critical cases and delegate rote tasks to AI.

10 Oct 2022

Study offers a systems biology strategy to facilitate the search for effective COVID-19 drugs

A Cleveland Clinic-led research team used artificial intelligence to map out hundreds of ways that the virus that causes COVID-19 interacts with infected cells.

10 Oct 2022

Light-Seq technology for barcoding and deep-sequencing selected cell populations in tissues

Under the microscope, researchers often observe different cell types organizing themselves in peculiar patterns within tissues, or sometimes a rare cell type that stands out by occupying a unique position, exhibiting an unusual shape, or expressing a specific biomarker molecule.

10 Oct 2022

Four of 10 Americans report misrepresentation and nonadherence regarding COVID-19 public health measures

Four of 10 Americans surveyed report that they were often less than truthful about whether they had COVID-19 and/or didn't comply with many of the disease's preventive measures during the height of the pandemic, according to a new nationwide study led in part by University of Utah Health scientists.

10 Oct 2022

Heart News and Research

Molecular signature could be mechanistically related to bleeding risk after heart surgery

Study finds an association between early diagnosis of diabetes and earlier menopause

‘Separate and unequal’: Critics say Newsom’s pricey Medicaid reforms leave most patients behind

Climate change magnifies health impacts of wildfire smoke in care deserts

Algorithms are as good as human evaluators at identifying signs of mental health issues in texts

CPR training spans across India in advance of the World Restart a Heart Day

Thirdhand smoke exposure elevates biomarkers associated with the initiation of skin diseases

Common diabetes medication identified as a possible treatment for atrial fibrillation

Virginia Tech graduate student receives NIH grant to explore new ways to treat arrythmias

Oxford researchers report findings from Phase 1 clinical trial of intranasal COVID-19 vaccine

Mask use in children shown to cause no respiratory distress

Video games may trigger life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in susceptible children

10 new centers to deliver CT scans, MRIs and x-rays across England

Hospitals have been slow to bring on addiction specialists

Timely COVID-19 boosters may prevent care facility outbreaks

Infant’s brain “plastic” enough to reorganize language to the opposite side after perinatal stroke

Saliency heat maps may not be yet ready for prime time, study shows

Study offers a systems biology strategy to facilitate the search for effective COVID-19 drugs

Light-Seq technology for barcoding and deep-sequencing selected cell populations in tissues

Four of 10 Americans report misrepresentation and nonadherence regarding COVID-19 public health measures

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