Bill Turnbull urges men to ‘press your GP’ on prostate cancer We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The 86 year-old veteran […]
Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. In this article the authors Jianqin Liang, Guizeng Liu, Shuzhuang Yu, Yang Yang, Yanchun Li, Hongli Tian, Zhe Chen and Wenping Gong The Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China and Nanpi County People's Hospital, Hebei, China discuss dynamic changes in chest CT images over […]
Starting your baby on solid foods can be both exciting and trying as it is fun to experience new taste and texture for your baby In the last few years, baby-led weaning has become a big question for new parents when it comes to introducing solids to the baby. It has never been so popular, […]
A Swedish healthcare reform more than a decade ago allowing patients to choose their own doctor has unexpectedly led to widespread discrimination against medics with foreign-sounding names. “When I was working in psychiatry, a patient cancelled his appointment with me three times because he didn’t want to be treated by a ‘foreign doctor’,” 30-year-old practitioner […]
Hemodynamic guided management may reduce heart failure hospitalizations in patients with earlier stage heart failure, according to late breaking research presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2021 and published in The Lancet. The observed reduction did not reach statistical significance in the overall analysis, but was statistically significant when limited to […]
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, has made it imperative to have rapid, sensitive, specific, and portable testing which is deployable immediately in a point-of-care context for instant detection of the virus. Study: CRISPR-Cas based virus detection: Recent advances and perspectives. Image Credit: […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who undergo successful vitrectomy for a common type of retinal detachment (RD) may have better visual acuity after gas tamponade (GT) than after silicone-oil tamponade (SOT), new research from Japan suggests. “Propensity score analysis of eyes with rhegmatogenous RD showed that postoperative vision was worse in eyes treated once […]
High blood pressure: Lifestyle changes to reduce reading We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info High blood pressure increases your risk of […]
Italy on Friday announced a return of some coronavirus restrictions to Sicily, the first time such measures have been reimposed on a regional level since the start of summer. From Monday, masks will again be required outdoors as well as indoors on the island and restaurant diners will be limited to groups of four following […]
Medical therapy for heart failure (HF) guided by an implanted pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) sensor didn’t improve survival or risk for HF events like hospitalization over a year in a major randomized trial that entered a broad range of patients with mild to moderate disease. But medical therapy adjustments based on PAP readings from the […]
