You may have heard that childhood obesity rates are finally starting to drop a teensy bit after years of climbing ever higher. This is fantastic news for a nation that now counts 17% of its residents under the age of 20 as obese. Childhood obesity rates, after years of relentless increase, are finally showing some […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – A pilot program with Birmingham Fire & Rescue finding success this summer. They started carrying blood products on calls, and now it’s an official part of the field supervisor’s kit. Field supervisors started carrying blood on calls back in August. Battalion Chief Clay Hendon says they’ve used it on 13 traumatic […]
Drinking raw milk is an udderly risky thing to do. There are millions upon million of reasons why this is the case—namely all the dangerous microbes that can remain active in milk that has not been pasteurized. So, it’s not a surprise that drinking raw milk has been linked to an outbreak of campylobacteriosis in […]
Greenbelt Library’s blood pressure screening program will run on Mondays through Nov. 13 in Greenbelt, from 11 a.m. until about 3:30 p.m. (WTOP/John Domen) These days, libraries offer a much wider range of services than just free books and tables to do research at. However, at one Maryland library, you can read a book — […]
image: Cardiomyocytes with stained mitochondria (red), sarcomeres (green) and nuclei (blue). view more Credit: Klaassen Lab, Max Delbrück Center When the PRDM16 gene mutates, heart muscle cells undergo changes in their metabolism. This increases the risk of congenital heart failure in women more than men, as a ECRC research team led by Sabine Klaassen and […]
Skin organoids offer a powerful platform for drug discovery in the ongoing fight against the virus formerly known as monkeypox. A new model system for studying mpox virus infections in the laboratory is providing valuable insights into the virus’s mechanisms of attack on skin cells, offering a potential catalyst in the quest to discover innovative […]
The Jamaican team (from left) of Brendon Sadler, Renée Campbell, Kevaughn Williams, Dahlia Richards, Donniver Haughton, Brianna Hanson and Gawayne Wright in Costa Rica. SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — A diagnosis of athlete’s heart in one of their colleagues spurred the decision of a group of Jamaican student leaders to pitch the topic of affordable, […]
Heerspink HJ, Perkins BA, Fitchett DH, Husain M, Cherney DZ. Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in the treatment of Diabetes Mellitus: Cardiovascular and kidney effects, potential mechanisms, and clinical applications. Circulation. 2016;134(10):752–72. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Bhatt DL, Szarek M, Pitt B, Cannon CP, Leiter LA, McGuire DK, et al. Sotagliflozin in patients with […]
Post-acute infection syndrome encompasses chronic illnesses that occur after an infection from a virus, bacteria, or parasite. For example, this could include prolonged symptoms after COVID, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus; other infections caused by viruses, bacteria, or parasites; or Lyme disease, which is caused by certain types of bacteria. “The prevalence of these post-acute […]