article Singer/songwriter Madonna performs onstage during The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Credit: Michael Tran/FilmMagic) The concert, which was originally scheduled for Sept. 5, was canceled along with multiple other performances around the world because of a “serious bacterial infection.” The pop icon was rushed […]
Jiang He, MD, PhD Credit: Tulane University New research suggests Black Americans experience a more than 2-fold higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease (CVD) than their White counterparts, despite substantial reductions in nationwide CVD-related mortality.1 The analysis of more than 50,000 adults revealed these racial disparities may be attributed to social factors, including unemployment […]
By Kathy Liszewski The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says that the list of emerging infectious diseases is hardly limited to outbreaks of previously unknown pathogens. It also includes known diseases that gain in numbers or geographic extent, or that persist and remain uncontrolled. The list includes chikungunya, HIV, and dengue infections as […]
Everywhere scientists look for microplastics, they’ve found them — food, water, air, and some parts of the human body. But examinations of our innermost organs that aren’t directly exposed to the environment are still limited. Now, in a pilot study of people who underwent heart surgery, researchers in American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science & Technology report that […]
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — The local Red Cross chapter is honoring its longest-serving volunteer with a memory blood drive on what would have been her 102nd birthday. Betty Grenig volunteered with the American Red Cross for 84 years, starting when she was just 17 years old in the late 1930s. “My mother said the military […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – The City of Wilmington’s fire and police departments are working with the American Red Cross to take part in the Battle of the Badges Blood Drive on Wednesday, Aug. 30. The departments will face off to see which can recruit more blood donors from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the […]
Viz.ai has received a de novo approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm designed to identify signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in routine electrocardiograms (ECGs). Viz HCM, the first AI model specifically crafted with detecting HCM in mind, automatically reviews ECGs as they are performed, alerting […]
“Certain things can make a big difference. They’re as simple as making sure that people are paid the same for what they’re doing, [giving] parents get parental leave regardless of their gender, and [having] secure vacation policies and coverage so that you can take time off to truly unplug and not just try to go […]
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in stem cell gene therapy. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore to normal function tissues and organs that have been damaged by disease, injured by trauma, or worn by time. […]
The adenovirus infection, which causes the common cold, has been linked with a rare blood clotting disorder, according to the results of a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Image credit: freshidea – stock.adobe.com When an individual gets a viral infection, autoimmune disease, or other conditions, platelet levels—or thrombocytes—can drop throughout […]