Monthly Archives: November 2023

Doctors hope to avoid post-Thanksgiving bump in illnesses as COVID-19, flu and RSV spread

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Doctors are preparing for a post-Thanksgiving bump in holiday illnesses – ’tis the season for togetherness and spreading germs. Doctors are hoping to avoid another trifecta of infections with COVID-19, flu and RSV –  respiratory syncytial virus – all happening at the same time. “We started to see this start to increase […]

Spanish scientists discover a promising therapeutic target for cardiac arrhythmias

image:  Guadalupe Sabio, Rafael Romero, Juan Antonio López, Alfonso Mora, Francisco Miguel Cruz, José Jalife, Luis Guillermo Leiva, Jesús Vázquez y Marta León. view more  Credit: CNIC A study led by Guadalupe Sabio and José Jalife at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid has identified a new signaling mechanism implicated in the […]

Dapagliflozin 5 mg daily suppressed cardiovascular events in patients with chronic heart failure and type 2 diabetes mellitus

image:  Figures 1The composite endpoint,defines as cardiovascular death or hospitalisation for cardiovascular events Figures 2An additional change in prescriptions for hear failure https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00511-4/fulltext view more  Credit: eClinicalMedicine/ National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center The DAPPER study was conducted with the National Cardiovascular Center as the principal investigator, with 294 patients participating from 18 facilities in Japan. In […]

This Giving Tuesday, consider donating your blood to the American Red Cross

This Giving Tuesday, consider donating your blood to the American Red Cross – CBS Philadelphia Watch CBS News Blood supplies traditionally run low during the holidays. Now, the American Red Cross​ is hoping people will make giving blood a holiday habit. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking […]

Pope Francis getting antibiotics intravenously for lung infection

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation and will scale back some appointments, but he doesn’t have pneumonia or fever, the Vatican said today. Francis himself on Sunday revealed that he was suffering from the inflammation problem, explaining why he didn’t keep his weekly window appointment to greet […]

How mineral blood test helps cut barren rates in Highlands flock

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Researchers believe dog illness is caused by bacterial infection

Veterinarians like Dr. Kristie Welsh see dogs with respiratory sickness all the time. But recently, she feared one dog might have been Lee County’s first case of Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease Complex, better known as the “mysterious dog disease” that started to sweep across the country in November. “She was hospitalized for several days, was […]

FDA Approves Nirogacestat for Treatment of Desmoid Tumors

SpringWorks Therapeutics announced late today that the FDA has approved nirogacestat, which the company says is the first therapy available to treat adult patients with progressing desmoid tumors who require systemic treatment. The therapy, an oral gama secretase inhibitor, will be marketed as Ogsiveo, the company announced in a statement. The FDA previously granted breakthrough […]