Image: © Georgethefourth | iStock Space travel’s impact on red blood cells and bone health is a growing concern. A study of 14 astronauts reveals that bone marrow fat might be vital to restoring these crucial elements A recent study in Nature Communications highlights a groundbreaking discovery – space travel depletes red blood cells and […]
When was the last time you had your blood pressure checked? All adults should have this simple test at least once a year. If a blood pressure reading at your doctor’s office is elevated — that is, higher than a healthy range — current guidelines from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommend repeating the […]
The following is a summary of “MRSA Prophylaxis in Spine Surgery Decreases Postoperative Infections,” published in the May 2023 issue of Spinal Disorders and Techniques by Conaway et al. The design of the study was a retrospective cohort study. The objective is to compare infection rates in patients undergoing lumbar fusion and decompression before and […]
August 21, 2023 Health & Medicine Infectious Disease SHARE Researchers at McMaster University have found that rather than conferring immunity against future infections, infection during the first Omicron wave of COVID left the seniors they studied much more vulnerable to reinfection during the second Omicron wave. The surprising finding from a study of 750 vaccinated […]
“Factors associated with withdrawal of consent should be considered when designing trials and should be further studied to learn how they can be favorably modified,” according to the authors of a study published in JAMA Oncology. Consent withdrawal rate across 58 clinical trials was less than 10% overall—an observation that remained consistent over time—and the […]
More younger people are suffering strokes. peakSTOCk/Getty Images According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 215 people die from heart disease and strokes daily. The foundation said five people have heart attacks, and 10 have strokes every hour. However, because of the lack of awareness about cardiovascular diseases, many people go undiagnosed and untreated until […]
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Covid cases have continued to rise in the UK after new variants emerged this summer, the latest data has revealed. A new strain of the disease, BA.2.86, was detected in the UK […]
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Human thrombin. Thrombin is the enzyme responsible for bleeding and for blood clotting, depending on how it’s activated, and has two DNA drug-binding sites. Credit: Yoshimoto et al, CC-BY Various medical circumstances, including heart attacks and extreme cases of COVID-19, necessitate the use of anticoagulants, medicines that prevent blood clots. But the most commonly used, […]
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Every two seconds, someone needs blood, but blood banks continue to face dire shortages as supplies have failed to reach their pre-pandemic levels. Because the demand is so great, researchers are creating a new type of synthetic blood in the lab. Dr. Susan Shea, a bioengineer at the University of […]