Monthly Archives: October 2023

Science Update: Scanning technique may help assess health of preterm infants after blood transfusion, NIH-funded study suggests

A technique using near-infrared light to detect blood oxygen levels in the brain and abdomen may have potential for monitoring the health of preterm infants needing or given a blood transfusion, suggests a small study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Infants having brain oxygen saturation levels of less than 50% before transfusion were […]

Sadly ‘long colds’ are now also a thing… and Covid could be to blame

A UK study has revealed that ‘long colds’, a phenomenon not entirely dissimilar to some cases of long Covid, can leave people experiencing symptoms for weeks after the initial infection. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London surveyed over 10,000 adult to assess ongoing symptoms after a respiratory virus. The study, which began in 2021, […]

From a Multidrug Resistant Infection Nightmare, Comes a Novel Wound Care Platform

What You Need to Know Turn Therapeutics CEO Bradley Burnam’s personal experience with a multidrug-resistant infection inspired him to found the company. His journey, which involved multiple hospitalizations and surgeries, highlights the need for improved wound care and infection control in the medical field. Burnam’s innovation, PermaFusion, offers a unique solution in wound care by […]

There is more to worry about than long COVID-19, study shows. You could get a long cold, too

12 health on *** Tuesday morning and *** new survey this morning, finding more than 900,000 Children and nearly 18 million adults have struggled with what’s called Long COVID. The National Center for Health Statistics says the condition affected nearly 7% of adults and 1.3% of kids. However, the US Department of Health and Human […]

‘Long colds’ may exist, as well as ‘long Covid’: Study

A new study shows that people may suffer long-term symptoms even after non-covid acute respiratory infections After the Covid infection, if people continue to show symptoms such as coughing, stomach pain and diarrhoea for more than 4 weeks, they are said to have ‘long cold.’ While the severity of Covid-19 appears to be an important […]

Increasing fruit and vegetable variety helps to lower disease risk – American Society for Nutrition

A new study published in The Journal of Nutrition provides intriguing insights regarding the association between the quantity and the variety of fruit and vegetable consumption and lower-risk mortality in an older Chinese population. Studies have shown beneficial effects of higher fruit and vegetable consumption and lower risk of coronary heart disease. While the American […]

Oath of Blood

This archive episode originally aired in July 2017. In the early summer of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. The First Lebanon War — as it would later be called — would ultimately lead to thousands of casualties, an eighteen-year-long Israeli presence in Southern Lebanon, and growing political disillusionment around the region. But for two Jerusalem families, […]

Spurs and Sports Entertainment hosting annual blood drive amid critical shortage

SAN ANTONIO – The American Red Cross has recently warned that the U.S. blood supply is at critically low levels dropping nearly 25% since early August. Spurs and Sports Entertainment is asking the community to come out to its annual blood drive, which takes place until 4 p.m. Monday at the Frost Bank Center off […]

‘They butchered people in cold blood in an inconceivable way’

 Hamas gunmen killed around 250 people who attended an outdoor music festival in an Israeli community near Gaza at the weekend, a volunteer who helped collect the bodies said on Monday. “In the area where the party took place, and at the party itself” it could be estimated that “there were 200-250 bodies,” said Moti […]

Heart disease risk, prevention and management redefined

Advisory Highlights: A new American Heart Association presidential advisory identifies the strong connections among cardiovascular disease (CVD), kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity, and suggests redefining CVD risk, prevention and management. The advisory defines cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome for the first time. CKM syndrome ranges from Stage 0, or no risk factors and an entirely […]