MedPage Today) — Subclinical diastolic dysfunction may be detected among adult survivors of childhood cancer before left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) becomes abnormally low, according to longitudinal echocardiographic data. Among participants…
WHO’s SAFER Initiative is a timely intervention to reduce alcohol-related harm in Uganda bugembea@who.int Mon, 19/06/2023 – 10:03 19 June 2023…
The Florida health system has converted more than 7.3 million medication instructions without clinician intervention. The prescribing technology was able to infer missing instructions for subsets and identify high-risk medications, improving patient safety…
Childhood adversity—circumstances that threaten a child’s physical or psychological well-being—has long been associated with poorer physical and mental health throughout life, such as greater risks of developing cardiac disease, cancer, or depression. It remains unclear, however, when and how the effects of childhood adversity become biologically embedded to influence health outcomes in children…
The company says the deep learning-enhanced technology can acquire MRI images up to 12 times faster than conventional methods, matching the speed of MRI to the speed of physiology…
Nacho Vivas, lab manager at the Rey Lab in the Bacteriology Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, checks on a group of germ-free mice inside a sterile lab environment on June 22, 2015. Research led by Federico Rey has found some microbes in the guts of humans and mice may help control the buildup of
The findings of the study have implications for the prevention and treatment of these common musculoskeletal disorders. Credit: Charlie Ehlert People with higher risks of cardiovascular disease are significantly more likely to develop carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, and rotator cuff tendinitis, according to a new study involving researchers at the University of
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cancer patients who continue smoking after their diagnosis have a nearly doubled risk of heart attack, stroke or death due to cardiovascular disease compared with non-smokers, according to research published on World No Tobacco Day in European Heart Journal. According to the World Health Organization, there were more than 50.5 million
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The first investigator-initiated study of remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring has found that it improves quality of life and reduces heart failure hospitalizations in patients with chronic heart failure. The findings are presented today in a late breaking science session at Heart Failure 2023, a scientific congress of the European Society
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With heart disease the most common cause of death worldwide, researchers have attempted to quantify how cumulative exposure to multiple risk factors, like high blood pressure, obesity, and elevated cholesterol, affect an individual’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Using sophisticated modeling techniques, University of Maryland School of Medicine