6 September 2023, 17:03 | Updated: 6 September 2023, 17:44 How did Cate Blanchett prepare to play fictional conductor Lydia Tár? By Maddy Shaw Roberts Cate Blanchett’s stirring words about her favourite classical music feature in a limited-edition Gramophone Magazine special, in collaboration with Classic FM. Loading audio… Cate Blanchett, who scooped a Best Actress […]
The author of “Blood Pudding,” Gerald Yukevich (Ivan Cox), will be signing books at Edgartown Books on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2 to 4 pm. “Blood Pudding” is a historical novel about the gritty but loving Malinowski family, who are immigrants from Poland. The story involves Tad struggling under the dictatorship of his father and with […]
FIVE people have died after developing a ‘flesh-eating’ bug after swimming off the east coast of America. One person in Connecticut, another in New York and three people in North Carolina, died between July and August this year after being infected with Vibrio vulnificus. 1 Vibrio vulnificus can be found in seawater and brackish water, and has thrived because of […]
Dive Brief: Guardant Health has stopped a trial of a minimum residual disease (MRD) test early after seeing the results of an interim analysis. The study, called COBRA, was evaluating the ability of Guardant’s MRD blood test to improve outcomes in patients with stage II colon cancer after surgery. Patients underwent circulating tumor deoxyribonucleic acid […]
News Release Wednesday, September 6, 2023 Researchers study confluence of multidrug resistance and hypervirulence among Klebsiella pneumoniae. New “hypervirulent” strains of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae have emerged in healthy people in community settings, prompting a National Institutes of Health research group to investigate how the human immune system defends against infection. After exposing the strains […]
I like learning about history. There’s an awful lot of it to get through and, with so many gaping holes in my knowledge, I need to crack on. But something is holding me up: somebody somewhere seems to have decreed that the stories of the past must be told in the present tense. Hence we […]
People who value their flesh are being warned to steer clear of Hurricane Idalia floodwaters in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. Officials are warning residents that hurricane flooding has spread the flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio vulnificus to inland regions where it isn’t usually a threat. A Vibrio infection can cause necrosis — the death […]
PADUCAH — Baptist Health Paducah is working with the Kentucky Blood Center to host a September blood drive. According to a news release from Baptist Health Paducah, the drive will be a two day event scheduled for Wednesday, September 13 from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Thursday, September 14 from 7 a.m. to 4 […]
Implantable Vascularized Engineered Thrombi (IVET). Credit: UNIST A research team, affiliated with UNIST has achieved a milestone in tissue regeneration by developing a technology that utilizes autologous blood to produce three-dimensional microvascular implants. These implants hold immense potential for various applications requiring vascular regeneration, including the treatment of chronic wounds. Led by Professor Joo H. […]
Bookmark 1. In this randomized controlled trial, among patients living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at low-to-moderate risk of cardiovascular disease, pitavastatin calcium was superior to placebo in reducing the risk of a major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE). 2. The trial was stopped early due to evidence of the efficacy and safety of pitavastatin. Evidence […]