“CVAUSA’s presence in Florida continues to expand with our first Orlando area partnership,” added CVAUSA CEO Tim Attebery. “I am delighted to work with the excellent physicians and staff at Cardiovascular Associates based in Kissimmee. This group has a longstanding A+ reputation in the Orlando region, and I know that firsthand since I reside in […]
Dehydration brings lots of risks—including urinary tract infections (UTIs). An expert offers some tips for avoiding these painful infections without sacrificing summer fun. “Patients can experience more UTIs during the summer due to inadequate fluid intake, especially in the historic heat waves we’ve been experiencing,” said Dr. Maude Carmel, a urology specialist at UT Southwestern […]
image: The peptide NQK-Q8 (light color), a piece of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that the virus uses to enter cells, bound to the HLA-B*15:01 groove (orange). The illustration is based on the crystal structure of HLA-B*15:01 in complex with spike derived peptide NQKLIANQF from SARS-CoV-2 virus (PDB Entry – 8ELH) published by Augusto et al., 2023 (Nature). […]
Five cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Grand Rapids, Minn., have public health officials searching for a common water source at fault. The mysterious outbreak was reported Wednesday by the Minnesota Department of Health, which disclosed that all five people were hospitalized between April and mid-July with bacterial pneumonia. The cases are unrelated, other than that […]
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Colorado football coach Deion Sanders is having another surgery Thursday to remove blood clots in one of his legs and will miss his highly anticipated appearance Friday in Las Vegas at the Pac-12 Conference’s annual football media day. Sanders announced the news Wednesday, as documented on his namesake son’s YouTube channel. This will be his […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Decades after Purdue Pharma began to push physicians to prescribe addictive pain pills, the opioid crisis has been a slow-motion disaster, with overdoses destroying lives and families across the country. Now, it appears the consequences of those early marketing efforts are even more devastating. In a new study, researchers at the […]
TACOMA, Wash. — A potentially deadly fungus – still considered an emerging disease – has now appeared in Western Washington. The first case of Candida auris showed up last week in a patient in Pierce County, launching a public health investigation. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) said the man was diagnosed with the fungus on July 13. The […]
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) — This is very exciting because, currently, there is no single test for Alzheimer’s disease. A diagnosis is usually based on a few different types of assessments. For example, mental status testing, physical and neuropsychological exams, laboratory tests, and brain imaging. The study’s findings were presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. […]
Previous studies have suggested that cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) may predict rapid kidney function decline among persons with diabetes. We analyzed the association between baseline CAN and subsequent glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decline among individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D) from the Preventing Early Renal Loss in Diabetes (PERL) study (N=469) and with type 2 […]