“I am honored to be leading this group as it starts a new path with a collaborative and patient-centered approach to deliver the best care possible with a vision to restore genuine patient care, where patients are embraced promptly, heard empathetically, and treated comprehensively in a care setting that emphasizes preventive measures to proactively keep […]
“The number of people with obesity is rising in every country across the world,” lead author Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, MD, a cardiologist and clinical lecturer the William Harvey Research Institute in London, said in a prepared statement from the American Heart Association. “Our study is the first to demonstrate that this increasing burden of obesity is […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Among patients with knee pain, those who take a widely used class of blood pressure-lowering medications called beta-blockers appear to have a lower risk of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for the treatment of advanced osteoarthritis (OA), suggests a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. “Our results indicate that […]
It’s tradition to trivialize FromSoftware’s notoriously difficult games by using the dirtiest, cheesiest strategies and equipment imaginable, and Armored Core 6 players have taken this to a new extreme by literally giving everything in the game both barrels, by which I mean two Zimmerman shotguns. I haven’t seen a weapon consume a community like this […]
Marcia DeRousse, the actress who portrayed Dr. Patricia Ludwig on “True Blood,” has died. She was 70. “After a long illness, Marcia DeRousse passed the morning of September 2, 2023, in Altadena, CA, where she resided,” her rep confirmed with Fox News Digital. “Marcia was not your typical character actor. She was a 4’4″ outspoken […]
Cases of respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, are rising in the parts of the southeastern U.S., and expected to spread to the rest of the country over the next couple of months, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The public health agency this week issued an advisory about the increases, encouraging […]
Doctors prescribing fruits and vegetables in addition to medication? That’s the focus of produce prescription programs, which are increasingly being recognized for their impact on heart health. Published on August 29th, 2023 in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association (AHA), a recent study led by Kurt Hager, Ph.D., M.S., an instructor at UMass […]
Home > Press Releases > How much exercise is too much? Georgia Southern researchers study cardiovascular health in ultramarathon runners to better understand impacts of physical activity September 6, 2023 Drs. Grosicki and Babcock (University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus) work through the night to collect cardiovascular measures on race finishers. Is too much of […]
As scientists try to get a better idea of what causes long COVID symptoms, researchers think blood clotting proteins could be what causes the persistent brain fog many COVID-19 long haulers complain of. The University of Oxford found the high levels of proteins fibrinogen and D-dimer helped predict whether patients would experience brain fog while […]
HOUGHTON. (WLUC) – The Red Cross is conducting its annual fall blood drive at Michigan Tech University (MTU) this week. The drive is split across two days. The first half was on Wednesday, and the second half will be on Thursday from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. It is being held in the MTU Union […]