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Blood
A continuous glucose monitor helped me discover I have hypoglycemia. Here’s how startup January uses AI to predict blood sugar spikes and crashes and coached me to better food choices.
Aug
Insider’s reporter applied a CGM that — thankfully — didn’t hurt at all, and then recieved AI-generated health data on how food and exercise impacted her blood-sugar levels. Samantha Stokes/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. p” class=”inline-offer pre-churn-offer”> Redeem now The healthcare startup January uses […]
Aug
Dozens of people recently showed up at the Adventist University of Haiti (UNAH) in Port-au-Prince to donate blood for a student hospitalized with a serious blood condition. Sanderva Judeline Joseph, 24, a fourth-year business administration student, had recently been diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare and serious blood condition that occurs when the bone marrow […]
Aug
The American Red Cross has seen a shortfall of about 25,000 blood donations in the first two months of the summer, which makes it hard to keep hospital shelves stocked with lifesaving blood products. By making an appointment to give blood or platelets in August, donors can keep the national blood supply from falling to […]
Aug
The American Red Cross has seen a shortfall of about 25,000 blood donations in the first two months of the summer, which makes it hard to keep hospital shelves stocked with lifesaving blood products. By making an appointment to give blood or platelets in August, donors can keep the national blood supply from falling to […]
Aug
Amarin Corporation plc announces that the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted VAZKEPA (icosapent ethyl) for reimbursement with a Patient Access Scheme* for secondary prevention in patients treated with a stable dose of statins, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels >1.04mmol/L and ≤2.60mmol/L, raised fasting triglycerides (≥1.7mmol/L) and with established cardiovascular disease (CVD) defined as a history of any […]
Aug
Filippos Kyriakidis,1,* Dionysios Kogias,2,* Theodora Maria Venou,1,* Eleni Karlafti,3,4 Daniel Paramythiotis5 1Second Chemotherapy Department, Theagenio Cancer Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; 2First Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece; 3Emergency Department, AHEPA General University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; 4First Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of […]
Infection
COVID keeps evolving, but so does our immunity. Are we now at a ‘stalemate’ with this virus?
Aug
After billions of global COVID-19 infections, millions of deaths, and countless lives upended by long-lasting health impacts, we’ve finally hit a point in this pandemic where SARS-CoV-2 isn’t the fearsome pathogen it used to be. Once thought to kill up to 20 per cent of those infected in the early days of 2020, COVID’s destructive […]
Aug
Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, with ischemic heart disease being the most common type.1 ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is the most serious manifestation of ischemic heart disease. Based on the national registries of the European Society of Cardiology) countries, the incidence rate of STEMI in other European countries ranged […]
Aug
ANI | | Posted by Krishna Priya Pallavi, Pennsylvania Aug 14, 2023 01:06 PM IST Share Via Copy Link The study shows when sleep is restricted to five hours per night, cardiovascular health indicators like heart rate, blood pressure deteriorate through the week. It is a mistake to think that sleeping in on weekends will […]