One of the world’s leading heart hospitals is getting a new name. Mount Sinai Health System announced that its top-ranked heart hospital, Mount Sinai Heart, has been renamed as a tribute to Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, one of the world’s most prominent cardiologists. The hospital is now officially known as Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital. […]
Kendrick Lamar has Swifties in his corner — and in his Instagram comments. The Grammy-winning “Alright” rapper reteamed with Taylor Swift to bring new life to their punchy hit, “Bad Blood,” years after they first dropped the single. Swift revealed the reunion and rerecording Friday on Instagram, just hours after she dropped “1989 (Taylor’s Version).” […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals. “Common themes include URI, Sinusitis, persistent and prolonged cough and strep throat,” said MinuteClinic family nurse practitioner Deborah ‘Micki’ Bailey. “COVID cases persist across all clinics,” she added. WAYNE COUNTY – Asthma flare-ups, […]
UAB researchers leverage All of Us Research Program nationwide data from a diverse group of individuals to show that the genetic risk of hypertension varied between males and females. UAB researchers, Naman Shetty, M.D., (right) and Panjak Arora, M.D., (left)Hypertension or high blood pressure is known to be more prevalent in men than in women. […]
Training series highlights solutions for HIV, PrEP/PEP and COVID-19 vaccine screenings in primary care WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is hosting a free webinar on November 1st to discuss the issue of clinician burnout and how it can be addressed through emergent infections. The webinar is […]
Fatigue is a common side effect experienced by patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms. Patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) may experience a number of symptoms, with fatigue being one of them. MPNs are types of blood cancer and occur when there is an abnormal change in stem cells within the bone marrow, according to Leukemia and Lymphoma […]
NEWPORT BEACH, CA — The season of giving is nearly upon us, and the American Red Cross is urging Orange County residents to be generous with the gift of life-saving blood. “Donations made now will help stock hospital shelves with life-saving blood products throughout the holiday season,” Red Cross Representative Dana Simmons said. As a […]
The interventional cardiology community responds to TRISCEND II Yousif Ahmad, MD, PhD, an interventional cardiologist with Yale School of Medicine, called TRISCEND II a “landmark study” during a TCT press conference. “The landscape for tricuspid valve interventions is changing,” he said. “If you look at just at 12 months or two years ago, we had […]
On the menu tonight, a nice, nutritional, bacteria-killing virus. Sounds unappealing? It may not be to your cells. In a new study, scientists revealed that a type of bacteriophage — a virus that infects and kills bacteria — found in the human gut helps mammal cells grow and thrive in what could be a symbiotic […]
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