With COVID-19 rates rising around the country, and an updated vaccine now available, researchers are still trying to understand how immunity to COVID-19 works, and the best ways to build and sustain it. One of the possibly richest areas of research might be infections among the very young, who tend to be spared from more […]
Boy with oxygen mask in bed: © WavebreakmediaMicro – stock.adobe.com At IDWeek 2023, Anna Christina Sick-Samuels, assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, discussed the diagnostic challenges, prevention, and treatment of ventilator-associated infections (VAIs). The term ventilator-associated infection encompasses ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT) and/or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Sick-Samuels poses that […]
Are you a “good” bone marrow donor and if not, can you become one? There are 55,000-60,000 blood stem cell transplantations also known as bone marrow transplants performed across the globe each year. A serious complication known as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is diagnosed for over half of these patients and occurs due to donor cells […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain “Bad” cholesterol isn’t the only culprit linked with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a trio of recent University of Alberta studies—including landmark global research—showing that a different kind of cholesterol is also a strong risk factor for people worldwide. Remnant cholesterol (RC) was confirmed as a strong risk […]
Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Sam Neill has been warned by doctors that his cancer treatment drug will stop working at some point, the actor said as he […]
Centenarians have become the fastest-growing demographic group in the world, with numbers approximately doubling every 10 years since the 1970s. Many researchers have sought out the factors and contributors that determine a long and healthy life. The dissolution isn’t new either, with Plato and Aristotle writing about the ageing process over 2,300 years ago. Understanding […]
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, which specialises in anti-diabetic and anti-obesity treatments, announced Monday it is acquiring hypertension drug ocedurenone for $1.3 billion The molecule, developed by the biotech firm KBP Biosciences, is currently the subject of clinical trials in patients suffering from uncontrolled hypertension and kidney disease. “With its expected benefit-risk profile, ocedurenone has best-in-class […]
— Awards presented at the 5th Annual LEAD conference for women in oncology and hematology — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — This past weekend, Women Leaders in Oncology® (WLO) presented its “Woman Oncologist of the Year” award to Julie Gralow, MD, FACP, FASCO, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Society of […]
Yikes. A fourth grade class at a Florida charter school sat through the first “20-30 minutes” of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, the movie sees Winnie and Piglet get revenge on Christopher Robin before going on a murder rampage that involves hunting a group of girls on holiday at a […]
Sam Neill, the Jurassic Park star and the grown-up Damian in the Omen franchise, has revealed that the treatment that sent him into a year-long remission from the rare blood cancer angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma will eventually stop working. “I’m prepared for that,” Neill told the Australian Story tv program, adding that he is not “remotely […]