MARION, Ill. (AP) — An autopsy shows a bacterial infection and other factors caused the death of a 3-year-old girl on a bus carrying immigrants from Texas to Chicago last month, an Illinois coroner said Thursday. The bacterial infection and aspiration pneumonia along with diarrhea and vomiting led to electrolyte problems, swelling of the brain […]
High levels of two proteins at the time of COVID-19 have been found in patients who later experienced cognitive problems, including ‘brain fog’, giving a major clue as to one cause of their symptoms: blood clots. Dr Max Taquet and colleagues from the University of Oxford looked at blood tests from 1,837 people who had […]
As we honor lymphoma awareness month, what do you want our patients and families to pause and remember? Lymphoma is a disease which can strike any one of us, young and old, at any time. Often there are not predisposing factors or lifestyle changes which can be avoided. What is critical for patients and families […]
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All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine. A Russian missile attack on Friday on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home town in central Ukraine killed one policeman and injured at least 52 others, while another attack in the southern Kherson region killed three people. The strikes were among multiple Russian attacks across the country […]
Discussion In the study, the researchers said that “strict control” of the five risk factors studied “could potentially prevent 57.2% of all cases of cardiovascular disease in women and 52.6% of all cases in men globally.” However, they noted that there is “a substantial scope for a more complete characterization of the risk of cardiovascular […]
Next Article Key Points “Medical Journeys” is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains both a physician guide and a downloadable/printable patient resource. “Medical Journeys” chart a path each step of the […]
Abstract Clonal hematopoiesis (CH)—age-related expansion of mutated hematopoietic clones—can differ in frequency and cellular fitness by CH type (e.g., mutations in driver genes (CHIP), gains/losses and copy-neutral loss of chromosomal segments (mCAs), and loss of sex chromosomes). Co-occurring CH raises questions as to their origin, selection, and impact. We integrate sequence and genotype array data […]
