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Mitchell E. Horwitz, MD, professor of medicine, director of the Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, discusses the next steps for research following the FDA approval of omidubicel (Omisirge) for patients with blood cancers in need of an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Transcription: 0:10 | For […]
While the overall age-adjusted mortality rate for diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) declined between 1999 and 2019, researchers found an average annual 1% increase since 2014. Following a decade-long decrease in diabetes- and CVD–related mortality, new research published in The American Journal of Medicine shows this trend has reversed. According to the study, the overall […]
SAN ANTONIO (Gray News) – What started as a single flea bite has now left a Texas man without hands or toes. Michael Kohlhof, 35, believed he had flu-like symptoms until his feet went numb. According to a GoFundMe post from Kohlhof’s family, he went to the emergency room on June 19 and was admitted […]
Syphilis rates in the United States have been going up for about 20 years — along with other sexually transmitted infections. But in April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that syphilis rates jumped by nearly 32% for all stages of the infection, with a total of 176,713 syphilis cases recorded in 2021. […]
WARWICK, NY — The New York Blood Center will be hosting a blood drive Sunday in memory of Danny Battista, whose family has sponsored annual drives to honor him. The drive will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, July 23 at St. Stephen’s Parish Community Center, 228 West St. in Warwick. Throughout […]
JTA — Late last year, a mom in South Carolina requested that her local school district remove nearly 100 books from its shelves — including a classic novel about antisemitism. The challenge to “The Fixer,” an award-winning 1966 work by Bernard Malamud, came amid an ongoing flurry of attempts by conservative activists to take books […]
Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD Source: Twitter The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive pregnancies among US women increased more than 16-fold from 1998 – 2018, according to new cross-sectional data. New research from a team of US investigators showed more than 5 in 1000 pregnancies resulted in a positive case of HCV in 2018—a […]
About one in two women are affected by cystitis during her lifetime, and many suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections. Bladder infections are not only painful and potentially dangerous, but they also pose a significant dilemma for physicians. With antibiotic resistance becoming widespread in urinary tract infections and continually increasing, physicians are often forced to […]
We are in the midst of a eucharistic revival in the American Catholic Church. No doubt, we need a revitalization. Mass attendance is declining along with belief in the true presence of Christ. Decades of scandal, declining vocations and the negative impacts of church closures because of Covid-19 have left the church in the United […]