Monthly Archives: September 2023

Stormont Foundation’s annual golf tournament raises money for cardiovascular center

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – A golf tournament aims to help a local cardiovascular procedure center attain the necessary resources to help others. The Stormont Vail Foundation hosted its 23rd annual Big Hearts golf tournament at the Topeka Country Club on Monday morning. With proceeds going towards the remodeling and expanding the cardiovascular procedure center at the Stormont Vail […]

American Red Cross to host 4 blood drives across East Texas amid national blood shortage

From Sept. 20 to 23, the American Red Cross will be hosting four blood drives in Longview, Tyler and Hawkins. TEXAS, USA — EDITOR’S NOTE: The video above originally aired on July 31, 2023. The American Red Cross will be hosting four blood drives across East Texas from Sept. 20 to 23. At this moment, […]

Tasso Receives CE Mark Certification for Tasso+™, Latest Generation Whole Blood Collection Lancet Device

Designation expands the availability of Tasso’s patient-centric blood collection solution for decentralized clinical trials, home diagnostic testing, wellness and anti-doping uses to the European Union SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Tasso Inc., the leading provider of patient-centric clinical-grade blood collection solutions, today announced it received CE Mark certification for its Tasso+™ device, a convenient, virtually pain-free blood lancet […]

Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Market to Show Immense Growth by 2032, Predicts DelveInsight | Leading Players to Look Out – AbbVie, Genmab, Merck, Xencor, Janssen, Roche, Biogen, Regeneron, Seagen, Takeda

New York, USA, Sept. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Market to Show Immense Growth by 2032, Predicts DelveInsight | Leading Players to Look Out – AbbVie, Genmab, Merck, Xencor, Janssen, Roche, Biogen, Regeneron, Seagen, Takeda The DLBCL market has a diverse pipeline, with the emergence of novel classes such as bi-specific […]

Scientists Develop Method to Detect Deadly Infectious Diseases

BYLINE: Kitta MacPherson Newswise — Rutgers researchers have developed a way of detecting the early onset of deadly infectious diseases using a test so ultrasensitive that it could someday revolutionize medical approaches to epidemics. The test, described in Science Advances, is an electronic sensor contained within a computer chip. It employs nanoballs – microscopic spherical […]

FXI Inhibitor Cuts Bleeds in Afib; COAPT Extends to Real World; AI Stroke Triage

People who were prone to needing dentures tended to also be at higher risk of cardiometabolic disease. (European Journal of Preventive Cardiology) Early real-world experience at a Dutch lipid clinic suggests smaller LDL cholesterol reductions with inclisiran (Leqvio) than what was seen in clinical trials. (Journal of Clinical Lipidology) PCSK9 inhibitor therapy led some people […]

Dialister pneumosintes and aortic graft infection – a case report

D. pneumosintes is well established as a cause of periodonitis and gingivitis in humans but reports of infection at other sites are sparse [4]. A PUBMED search for D. pneumosintes case reports produced twelve results of extra-oral infection (reference 9 reports on two patients), including orbital cellulitis and sinusitis, as well as pneumonia and empyema, […]

Screening for Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy in the US—A New Hypertensive Urgency

Maternal death is a tragedy in any setting. Unfortunately, the US has maternal mortality far higher than many other well-resourced nations.1 Moreover, egregious disparities within the US population persist: Alaska Native, American Indian, and Black individuals experience maternal mortality rates 2 to 3 times those of White individuals, and rates among Hispanic individuals are at […]

Quanterix ‘standarad blood draw’ could reveal likelihood of Alzheimer’s

OSP: Could you explain how the LucentAD test works including how clinicians will benefit from using it?​  MT: Sure, it is a simple blood test to determine if an individual is likely or not to have amyloid pathology consistent with Alzheimer’s disease. A standard blood draw is used to take a sample of a patient’s […]

Sexually transmitted infections and associated risk factors among the transgender population of Pakistan

Bastos FI, Bastos LS, Coutinho C, Toledo L, Mota JC, Velasco-de-Castro CA, et al. HIV, HCV, HBV, and syphilis among transgender women from Brazil: assessing different methods to adjust infection rates of a hard-to-reach, sparse population. Med (Baltim). 2018;97(1S Suppl 1):16–24. Article  Google Scholar  Data on the size of the HIV epidemic. https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-details/GHO/data-on-the-size-of-the-hiv-aids-epidemic. Accessed 1 […]