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Researchers identify eight primary factors that increase GI bleeding risk after heart attack

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified eight primary factors that increase the risk of a common bleeding complication after heart attack. Some of these factors are already known, but using machine learning techniques, the researchers have found additional predictors, such as smoking, blood pressure and blood glucose.

23 Aug 2021

Pandemic unveils growing suicide crisis for communities of color

Rafiah Maxie has been a licensed clinical social worker in the Chicago area for a decade. Throughout that time, she'd viewed suicide as a problem most prevalent among middle-aged white men.

23 Aug 2021

As temperatures rise, so do the health risks for California’s farmworkers

Leoncio Antonio Trejo Galdamez, 58, died in his son's arms on June 29 after spending the day laying irrigation pipes in California's Coachella Valley. News of his death reverberated through the largely Latino community near the Mexican and Arizona borders — another casualty in a dangerous business.

23 Aug 2021

Study finds significant increase in opioid-associated cardiac arrests

A nationwide US study has shown that the rate of opioid-related cardiac arrests has steeply risen and is now on par with the rate of cardiac arrest from other causes. The research is presented at ESC Congress 2021.

23 Aug 2021

Researchers use residues in wastewater to study illicit drug consumption

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, stay-at-home orders and other restrictions drastically affected how people lived and worked, resulting in social isolation and economic instability. Now, researchers show that some people turned to a variety of drugs for relief. Using wastewater analysis, the team identified a spike in consumption of easily abused prescription opioids and anti-anxiety sedatives, while some illicit drug use plummeted, between March and June 2020.

23 Aug 2021

Masimo PVi may provide useful information for monitoring the volume status in spontaneously breathing hemodialysis patients

Masimo announced today the findings of a study published in the Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine in which Drs. Seda Dağar and Hüseyin Uzunosmanoğlu at the Kecioren Training and Research Hospital in Ankara, Turkey investigated the role that noninvasive, continuous Masimo PVi® might play in monitoring volume status and volume changes in spontaneously breathing patients undergoing hemodialysis.

23 Aug 2021

HRC Foundation and Us Helping Us launch first national in-home HIV testing program in the U.S.

Today, The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, in partnership with Us Helping Us, launched the United States’ first national in-home HIV testing program centered around reaching communities disproportionately impacted by HIV—Black and Latinx gay, bisexual men and transgender women of color.

23 Aug 2021

National poll: Families worried about COVID's looming impact on students

Back to school jitters may have different meaning in the COVID era. After more than a year of pandemic disruptions, families are heading into the next school year worried about COVID's looming impact on students, according to the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

23 Aug 2021

Young coronavirus patients share their stories to encourage people to get vaccinated

Young coronavirus (COVID-19) patients have told their stories of battling the virus and suffering long-term debilitating effects as part of a new film encouraging people to get their vaccines.

23 Aug 2021

Human milk oligosaccharides may help treat or prevent bacterial infections in newborns and adults

Bacteria known as group B Streptococcus (GBS) are a common cause of blood infections, meningitis and stillbirth in newborns. Although GBS infections can often be treated or prevented with antibiotics, the bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant.

23 Aug 2021

New PULSAR radiation-therapy strategy achieves better tumor control

Artificial intelligence, along with a $71-million expansion of Radiation Oncology services, is allowing UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer physicians to pioneer a new PULSAR radiation-therapy strategy that improves tumor control compared with traditional daily therapy.

From Elekta 20 Aug 2021

New AI blood test found to detect over 90% of lung cancers

A novel artificial intelligence blood testing technology developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center was found to detect over 90% of lung cancers in samples from nearly 800 individuals with and without cancer.

20 Aug 2021

Researchers create a novel strategy for developing an effective TB vaccine

Innovators at Purdue University and Houston Methodist Research Institute have created a novel strategy for developing an effective vaccine for a widespread form of tuberculosis.

20 Aug 2021

Systematic review: Efficacy and renal tolerability of ultrafiltration in acute decompensated heart failure

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Yajie Liu and Xin Yuan from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China consider the efficacy and renal tolerability of ultrafiltration in acute decompensated heart failure.

20 Aug 2021

MHRA approves first monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 in the UK

Following on from a thorough review of the evidence carried out by the MHRA, and recommendation by the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM), the government's independent expert scientific advisory body, the MHRA has approved Ronapreve as the first monoclonal antibody combination product indicated for use in the prevention and treatment of acute COVID-19 infection for the UK.

20 Aug 2021

‘We sent a terrible message’: Scientists say Biden jumped the gun with vaccine booster plan

The Biden administration's plans to make covid-19 booster shots available next month has drawn a collective scream of protest from the scientific community.

20 Aug 2021

Low-cost point of emission air purifiers can reduce airborne transmission of pathogens, says study

In a study conducted at the Monash University, Australia, scientists have examined the efficacy of portable air purifiers combined with a hood in reducing virus aerosol transmission and protecting healthcare workers from workplace contamination. The study is currently available on the medRxiv* preprint server.

20 Aug 2021

Biden’s no-jab-no-job order creates quandary for nursing homes

President Joe Biden's edict that nursing homes must ensure their workers are vaccinated against covid-19 presents a challenge for an industry struggling to entice its lowest-paid workers to get shots without driving them to seek employment elsewhere.

20 Aug 2021

Study describes associations between gender-affirming hormone therapy and body weight changes

Gender-affirming hormone therapy is the bedrock of medical therapy for many transgender and gender diverse individuals. Some adult transgender individuals decide with their health care provider to start hormone therapy – testosterone for transmasculine people and generally a combination of estrogen and antiandrogens for transfeminine people – specifically for the physical and psychological effects these hormones produce, including changes to the voice, skin, facial and body hair and body composition. However, in the context of the global obesity epidemic, little is known about obesity rates and weight changes in adults treated with gender-affirming hormone therapy.

20 Aug 2021

Researchers recommend urgent adaptation plans to mitigate heat-related deaths and illnesses

Extreme heat is an increasingly common occurrence worldwide, with heat-related deaths and illnesses also expected to rise.

20 Aug 2021

Hospital News and Research

Researchers identify eight primary factors that increase GI bleeding risk after heart attack

Pandemic unveils growing suicide crisis for communities of color

As temperatures rise, so do the health risks for California’s farmworkers

Study finds significant increase in opioid-associated cardiac arrests

Researchers use residues in wastewater to study illicit drug consumption

Masimo PVi may provide useful information for monitoring the volume status in spontaneously breathing hemodialysis patients

HRC Foundation and Us Helping Us launch first national in-home HIV testing program in the U.S.

National poll: Families worried about COVID's looming impact on students

Young coronavirus patients share their stories to encourage people to get vaccinated

Human milk oligosaccharides may help treat or prevent bacterial infections in newborns and adults

New PULSAR radiation-therapy strategy achieves better tumor control

New AI blood test found to detect over 90% of lung cancers

Researchers create a novel strategy for developing an effective TB vaccine

Systematic review: Efficacy and renal tolerability of ultrafiltration in acute decompensated heart failure

MHRA approves first monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 in the UK

‘We sent a terrible message’: Scientists say Biden jumped the gun with vaccine booster plan

Low-cost point of emission air purifiers can reduce airborne transmission of pathogens, says study

Biden’s no-jab-no-job order creates quandary for nursing homes

Study describes associations between gender-affirming hormone therapy and body weight changes

Researchers recommend urgent adaptation plans to mitigate heat-related deaths and illnesses

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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