Judit Giró Benet, who was a biomedical engineering student at the University of Barcelona at the time, first got the idea for the Blue Box when she found out that nearly 40 percent of women skip their routine breast cancer screenings. About one-third of cancers are detected too late to be survived, so Judit knew
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Sooner was not better when using ECG to determine candidates for urgent coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to the PEACE study from Europe. The earlier the ECG acquisition after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), the higher the false positive rate, as determined by the proportion of patients with ECG findings suggestive of
Naomi Schalit, The Conversation Editor’s note: Ore Koren is a scholar of civil conflict and political violence. Before the November 2020 election, he wrote a story for The Conversation about the likelihood of election-related violence in the U.S. So we went back to him on Wednesday, while what some are calling an insurrection unfolded at
The CDC will send $3 billion to the states to boost a lagging national COVID-19 vaccination program. The Department of Health and Human Services announced the new funding as only 30% of the more than 22 million doses of vaccine distributed in the U.S. has been injected into Americans’ arms. Along with the $3 billion,
We look at the facts behind this complex psychological disorder, bust the myths surrounding it, and give tips on how to help someone who is struggling The concept of delusions is a scary and confusing thing for many people, and as such they are an often-misunderstood symptom of mental illness. They can provoke harmful and
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Laboratory experiments indicate the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will offer protection against the two coronavirus variants found in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Scientists from Pfizer and the University of Texas Medical Branch created a version of the variant in the lab,
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 4, 2021– Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today provided a supply update for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, increasing its base-case global production estimate from 500 to 600 million doses for 2021. Moderna said it is continuing to invest and add staff to build up to potentially 1
January 8, 2021 Audience: Consumer, Patient, Health Professional, Pharmacy January 08, 2021 — Fresenius Kabi USA is voluntarily recalling a single lot of Ketorolac Tromethamine Injection, USP, 30 mg/mL, 1 mL fill in a 2 mL amber vial to the user level due to the presence of particulate matter. Particulate matter was found in reserve
For the first time since the pandemic started, Israel now says more than a quarter of its most serious Covid-19 cases, where hospitalization is required, are in patients under the age of 60. The Israeli Ministry of Health is placing the blame squarely on a new strain first discovered in the United Kingdom last month.
Canada is at the forefront of global efforts to end child marriage abroad. Yet this practice remains legal and persists across the country. In Canada, more than 3,600 marriage certificates were issued to children, usually girls, under the age of 18 between 2000 and 2018, according to a new study from researchers at McGill University.
Almost 200 people in Pine Bluff, Arkansas are receiving an unexpected gift from a kind doctor. That doctor, Omar Atiq, is the founder of the Arkansas Cancer Institute and an oncologist. When he sent out his holiday greeting cards this year, he informed those cancer patients that he was wiping out their balances. The card
“So you give it to a person who already had the real thing. That is like giving Warren Buffett a hundred dollar bill.” — Joseph Whitfield, PA-C, of Corpus Christi, Texas, commenting on giving the COVID-19 vaccine to those who already had the virus. “We treat patients at the bedside. We don’t have the ivory
The American College of Cardiology has released a new expert consensus decision pathway to provide practical guidance on same-day discharge after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). “There’s been a lot of interest in people wanting to start these programs, so we thought this is an ideal topic for a consensus pathway that will help programs that
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. US regulators warned about the potential risk for false negative results with molecular tests for SARS-CoV-2 due to mutations such as a recently detected B.1.1.7 variant of the virus. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued an alert
She’s the beauty influencer with the brightest palette, but Tess Daly’s account is also a space of positivity and conversation, and now the platform where she shares her journey as the UK’s first person to have the latest treatment for spinal muscular atrophy. Here, we catch up with Tess about shielding in lockdown, representation, and
For many of us, it’s the ”it” question of the year: When can I get the COVID vaccine? The answer to that question is a moving target. Here’s what to know about vaccine distribution and how to stay current on what’s happening in your hood. The rollout: Days after the FDA gave emergency use authorization
This content originally appeared on ForGoodMeasure. Republished with permission. Apparently everyone wants to take credit for this amazing creation. The French are sourced, as are the Swiss & Belgians. Whomever, we would like to say, Thank You. Named for the Latin word “tuber”, meaning lump, the confection was said to resemble the edible Tuber Melanosporum
COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care in the early months of the pandemic were subject to a significantly higher burden of delirium and coma than is typically found in patients with acute respiratory failure. Choice of sedative medications and curbs on family visitation played a role in increasing acute brain dysfunction for these patients. That’s
A patient lies on a stretcher in a hallway near other patients in the overloaded Emergency Room at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on January 5, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Nearly 3,000 people in the U.S. are dying every day,
A paper written by Arash Shaban-Nejad, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor, and Nariman Ammar, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, both at the Center for Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, was recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research – Medical Informatics. The paper discussed how
It’s still nearly impossible to know why certain people will develop breast cancer and certain people won’t, but there are some things we can all do to decrease our risk. And two recent studies show that one of the things you might need to change about your lifestyle is how much you use your cell
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the
African Americans with sickle-cell trait (SCT), that is, who are heterozygous for the sickle-cell gene variant, don’t as a result necessarily have an elevated risk of myocardial infarction (MI) or other cardiovascular (CV) events, a meta-analysis of observational studies suggests. The research argues against CV disease as an independent cause of the excess risk of
The FDA has issued yet another recall of metformin extended-release tablets. On January 4, Nostrum Laboratories announced a voluntary recall for this type 2 diabetes medication; this latest recall is an expansion of one announced November 2 by the same company. The recall is for one lot of metformin HC1 extended-release tablets, 750mg. As with
The investigational RNAi therapeutic vutrisiran (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals) met its primary and secondary endpoints in a phase 3 study of adults with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR) with polyneuropathy. Topline results from the HELIOS-A study show that vutrisiran “reduces neurologic impairment and improves quality of life in patients with hATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy as soon as 9
As Britain enters a third national lockdown, we revisit some key tips for looking after your mental health during the pandemic While we all hoped that 2021 would start differently, the introduction of Tier 5 echoes the initial lockdown we experienced in March of last year. However, this time it’s different. We know there’s a
Recent research suggests a new lab test can help to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease quickly and easily. This test was confirmed in two studies in which the researchers found a specific protein whose presence increased as the disease progressed. Alzheimer’s disease also referred to as AD, is a form of dementia and is sometimes called Alzheimer’s
Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition that affects nearly 8% of all people living with diabetes and only 1% of the general population. Celiac presents as an immune response to eating gluten, which is a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye products, which can cause inflammation of the gut. Type 1 diabetes and celiac
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