ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center welcomes Rachel Picone to the Pen Bay Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases team. Picone is accepting new primary care patients. Before joining PBMC, Picone worked as a nurse practitioner at HIV Alliance in Eugene, Ore., and in the Infectious Disease department at Berkshire Health Systems in Pittsfield, Mass.
UK researchers have found that people with longer-term COVID-19 symptoms including brain fog showed reduced performance in tasks testing different mental processes up to two years after infection with the virus. Researchers from King’s College London looked at whether infection with COVID-19 affected performance in two rounds of online cognitive testing that took place in […]
TOMAH, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) – Tomah Health and Versiti Blood Center officials are asking area residents to help with a serious need for blood by donating on August 9th or 10th in Tomah. “Overall, blood drives during the summer have been very challenging,” said Versiti Blood Center account representative Emalea Cogdill. She said that with people […]
image: Eric Lazartigues, PhD view more Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA — The American Heart Association’s Council on Hypertension has selected Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Director of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, to present the 2023 Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture. According to the Association, this award and […]
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Quizartinib (Vanflyta) has been approved by the FDA in combination with standard cytarabine and anthracycline induction and cytarabine consolidation, and as maintenance monotherapy after consolidation chemotherapy, for the treatment of adults with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that is FLT3-ITD positive, as detected by an FDA-approved test.1 The regulatory decision was supported by data […]
“About half of the world’s population is at risk of dengue, and dengue affects approximately 129 countries,” said Dr Raman Velayudhan, WHO’s Head of the Global Programme on control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. “We estimate that about 100 to 400 million cases are reported every year. This is basically an estimate and the American region alone […]
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – The Northwest Water Carnival continued Thursday with an American Red Cross blood drive at Grace Lutheran Church hosted by the Detroit Lakes Jaycees. Forty people filled up the signup sheet to donate at the event and the nurses filled every bag with potentially life-saving blood that they had on hand. Allie, […]
The symptoms of a brain-eating amoeba infection may initially resemble flu-like symptoms, which can make early diagnosis challenging. Read on to know more. In a heart-wrenching turn of events, the playful dip in water proved to be fatal for Woodrow Turner Bundy, a 2-year-old from Nevada, US. He breathed his last on July 19, after […]
Dr. Monica Gandhi, stands in a lab that tests for HIV medication in hair, at Parnassus Medical Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, July 10, 2023. Dr. Monica Gandhi is an expert in infectious diseases, specializing particularly in the care of patients with HIV and AIDS. She recently came out with a new book, […]