Photo Credit: Piron Guillaume / Unsplash.jpg (illustrative) Beilinson Hospital recently completed a study testing Nanox.AI’s HealthCCSng medical software that found 58 percent of patients unknowingly had moderate to severe levels of coronary artery calcium (CAC) or plaque. CAC is the strongest predictor of future cardiac events, and measuring it typically subjects patients to an additional […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases. The proposed CDC guideline was released Monday, and officials will move to finalize it after a 45-day public comment period. With […]
Key Takeways Experts say that the symptoms of COVID-19 this fall are still primarily a fever, cough, and sore throat, body aches, and/or a headache. The symptoms of COVID can vary depending on factors like variant and vaccine status, and can show up in a different order for everyone (though usually in a different order […]
More than 56,000 schools in Pakistan closed their doors for four days amid an outbreak of viral conjunctivitis, with 13,000 new cases reported in one day on Tuesday. Millions of students were sent home after Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, announced that it had recorded nearly 400,000 infections since the start of the year. The […]
Estrogen seems to have a protective effect on the cardiovascular system, says Jennifer DuPont, a principal investigator at the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center and an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Credit: Shutterstock With every pump of our heart, blood courses through our arteries and veins, carrying oxygen and […]
Disclaimer: Early release articles are not considered as final versions. Any changes will be reflected in the online version in the month the article is officially released. Author affiliations: Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain (A. Bellés-Bellés, N. Prim, S. Mormeneo, A. Jover-Sáenz, N. Aixalà, A. Bernet, É. López-González, I. Prats, M. García-González); Institut […]
This post was written by Amber Glessner, NP, Parkview Vein Clinic. There are many methods available to help prevent pregnancy. Deciding which option is right for you requires the consideration of several factors, including potential side effects, convenience, cost and your future pregnancy plans. When it comes to the common use of birth control with […]
Bayhealth announced a new internal medicine and infectious disease specialist, Rafael Ruiz Gaviria, MD, has joined its team based in Sussex County. Ruiz Gaviria joins physicians Preeti Gupta, MD; Cynthia Zarraga, MD; Antonio Zarraga, MD; Meliseanna Gibbons, MD; and Lilia Villarin, MD; and family nurse practitioner Roseann P. Velez, FNP-BC, in the Bayhealth Primary Care, […]
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } As International Plasma Awareness Week kicks off, Blood Assurance is urging donors to roll up a sleeve and donate. The community nonprofit is in critical need of those with type A and AB blood to donate plasma. On Monday, […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – LGBTQIA+ donors will be welcomed into blood centers across the nation in October as the FDA updates rules on who is allowed to donate blood. The Community Blood Center says that while the nation currently faces a blood emergency after a summer of low donations, it is hoping a change in […]