MEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — YourBio Health, a Boston-based pioneer in remote, capillary whole blood collection technology, today announced that it has received further regulatory approval for its TAP® Micro Select blood collection device with certification for CE Marking. This will further advance the progress of this revolutionary approach to humanizing the process […]
Monthly Archives: October 2023
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©New Africa/AdobeStock Patient Care brings primary care clinicians a lot of medical news every day—it’s easy to miss an important study. The Daily Dose provides a concise summary of one of the website’s leading stories you may not have seen. Last week, we reported on findings presented at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2023 […]
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Researchers funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation have developed a way of detecting the early onset of deadly infectious diseases by using a test so ultrasensitive that it could someday revolutionize medical approaches to epidemics. The test, described in Science Advances, uses an electronic sensor contained in a computer chip. It employs nanoballs – […]
Cardiovascular
‘More dangerous than useful’: 1 in 5 coronary stents implanted by cardiologists are unnecessary, wasting $800M per year
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Patients receive unnecessary coronary stents during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures at an alarming rate, according to a new report from the Lown Institute. The analysis included approximately 1 million stent procedures performed at more than 1,700 U.S. hospitals and outpatient facilities from 2019 to 2021. Stents were deemed unnecessary if the patient was diagnosed […]
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It was in 1941 that the former army captain and specialist paediatric ophthalmologist Norman Gregg noticed something very worrying. The Australian doctor was seeing an alarming number of cases of children with cataracts and numerous birth defects—and they had come directly after a large outbreak of the viral disease Rubella. The disease had been identified […]
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What is plasma? Plasma is the part of your blood that carries platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells around the body. It contains antibodies, known as immunoglobulins, which fight infection. Plasma makes up approximately 55% of your blood. Antibodies are made into live-saving medicines to save and transform lives. How does plasma become […]
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If you already donate blood, you could help us in a different way and try plasma donation. Plasma can be made into medicine which saves and improves the lives of over 17,000 people in England each year. By giving plasma you could help build a person’s antibodies, help to heal burns, protect pregnancies, and help babies’ hearts to […]
The antiviral drug Paxlovid is great at treating COVID-19 infections, but a new study casts doubt on its effectiveness at preventing symptoms associated with long COVID. Nearly 9,600 veterans given Paxlovid had about the same risk of most post-COVID side effects as vets not treated with the antiviral med, according to findings published Tuesday in […]
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Just in time for Halloween, the xenomorphs are back and scarier than ever. Following previous projects that saw iconic Marvel Comics characters stripped down to bare hues in “Black, White & Red” and “Black, White & Blood” anthology titles starring Deadpool, Darth Vader, Wolverine, Marvel Zombies and more, the iconic publisher has now turned its […]
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Scientists have been stunned by the discovery of two gigantic fossils of a 160-million-year-old blood-sucking creature in northern China. The “unusually large” fossils, which were described in a new paper published in Nature Communications, belonged to the lamprey species—an ancient species of jawless fish that can still be found in the Atlantic today. The parasitic […]