The Brooklyn office of Rep. Daniel Goldman was defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti, as antisemitic crimes surge in New York during the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Vandals scrawled the phrases “Blood on ur hands,” “Free Palestine,” and “Let Gaza live” in red and white paint on the facade of the Jewish Democratic congressman’s […]
Monthly Archives: November 2023
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Companies Medtronic PLC Follow Otsuka Holdings Co Ltd Follow Nov 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the use of Medtronic’s (MDT.N) treatment device in a surgery called renal denervation in patients whose high blood pressure cannot be controlled by drugs, the company said. The agency’s decision is in contrast […]
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Rep. Dan Goldman’s Brooklyn office was defaced Thursday night with pro-Palestinian graffiti that read “Blood on ur [sic] hands,” “free Palestine,” and “let Gaza live.” The slogans were spray painted by at least two suspects on the facade of the Jewish Democrat’s Park Slope district office and on the sidewalk out front, photos on social […]
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Open this photo in gallery: A journalist is silhouetted before the Teck Resources special meeting of shareholders, in Vancouver, on Apr. 26.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Back in the spring, Teck Resources Ltd. suffered one of the biggest blows in its more than 100-year history. At the 11th hour, Canada’s biggest diversified mining company called off […]
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Dear Doctors: A co-worker is doing something called a parasite cleanse. She says if you have symptoms like gas, muscle aches, insomnia and feel hungry all the time, it means you have parasites. How would you get parasites, and how would you know? Does a cleanse really help? Dear Reader: As with many odd and […]
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a Medtronic device to lower blood pressure, the company announced Friday evening. The decision comes after an advisory panel narrowly voted against the device in August. The FDA approved a similar product, part of a device class called renal denervation, from startup Recor Medical earlier this month. advertisement […]
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TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include aspirin and left ventricular […]
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Congenital disorders
Effects of non-invasive ventilation on sleep in chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure
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Abstract Chronic respiratory disease can exacerbate the normal physiological changes in ventilation observed in healthy individuals during sleep, leading to sleep-disordered breathing, nocturnal hypoventilation, sleep disruption and chronic respiratory failure. Therefore, patients with obesity, slowly and rapidly progressive neuromuscular disease and chronic obstructive airways disease report poor sleep quality. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is a complex […]
Infection
High frequency of Enterococcus faecalis detected in urinary tract infections in male outpatients – a retrospective, multicenter analysis, Germany 2015 to 2020
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E. faecalis is the second most frequently isolated bacteria in suspected UTI in men – in both mono- as well as polymicrobial infections. Men aged 18 to 29 years are predominantly at risk for detection of E. faecalis in suspected UTI. In contrast, E. faecalis plays a minor role in UTI in women [12]. Secondly, gram-positive […]