Audio articles on Wilson County News made possible by C Street Gift Shop in downtown Floresville! C-shift Capt. Javier Melendez, Operations/Training Capt. William Miles, board President Bill Gleeson, EMS Director David Adams, EMT Michael Peña, and Paramedic Zachary Huchin of Wilson County Emergency Services District No. 4 celebrate the receipt Oct. 11 of a unit […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Battleship North Carolina and Novant Health are inviting the community to a blood drive on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the battleship from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All blood donors will be given a t-shirt and a free pass to tour the ship. “Help us honor my fellow veterans and save […]
New Brunswick reported two more COVID-19 deaths and a nearly 63 per cent week-over-week jump in hospitalizations Tuesday, while an infectious diseases researcher says about one in 52 of us are currently infected with the virus. Intensive care unit admissions, COVID outbreaks and new confirmed cases also all increased during the first week of October, according to the province’s Respiratory Watch […]
Personalized information tailored to recommended reading levels through large language models can address socioeconomic barriers when it comes to receiving reproductive care and improving patient outcomes, says Joseph Chervenak, MD, MBA, obstetrician and gynecologist at Montefiore Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Health. Transcript You are presenting on the topic of “Patient Centric & Access to […]
Brian Peters, PhD, left, and Jarrod Fortwendel, PhD, right, are the principal investigators of their research study to improve outcomes from Aspergillus fumigatus and other fungal infections. Aspergillus fumigatus is the major airborne fungus present indoors and outdoors that causes various diseases, the severity of which are dependent on an individual’s immune status. Researchers in […]
Tablet for Potency | Image Credit: adragan – stock.adobe.com Programs dedicated to male reproduction and the development of effective, reversible hormonal contraceptives are potential game changers in family planning, explained Stephanie Page, MD, PhD, University of Washington, in a presentation at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine 2023 Scientific Congress & Expo, held in New […]
More than 40 “flesh-eating” infections have been identified in Florida this year amid record-high water temperatures in the North Atlantic. The bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, which thrives in warm seawater, has killed ten people in the state this year out of 43 infections, giving an estimated case fatality of 23 per cent. Experts have noted a […]
Scanning electron micrograph of a single prostate cancer cell. Credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute Prostate cancer’s resistance to treatment can be reversed in some patients by stopping hijacked white blood cells from being ‘pulled into’ tumors, according to new research published in Nature. In an early clinical trial, researchers showed that blocking the messages cancer […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Early results from PharmaKure, a pharmaceutical company spun out from The University of Manchester, shows a novel whole blood test developed by the company is able to quantify Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers. PharmaKure’s proprietary ALZmetrixTM blood test can, they find, identify blood-based biomarkers in patients with Alzheimer’s disease to provide early warning […]
Credit: Linda Bartlett/National Cancer Institute, via Wikimedia The Million Hearts Model, a cardiovascular disease event prevention program created by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), significantly reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and related deaths. As reported in JAMA, the model, which paid healthcare providers to carry out cardiovascular disease (CVD) […]