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Cardiovascular

AI and precision medicine may uncover risks of cardiovascular disease

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21
Jul

<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/ai-and-precision-medic.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2023/ai-and-precision-medic.jpg" data-sub-html="Credit: Cardiovascular Research (2023). DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvad106″> Credit: Cardiovascular Research (2023). DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvad106 Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common causes of death in Sweden and in the world. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, among others, have found that artificial intelligence can play a role in identifying the risk of cardiovascular disease. The […]

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Cardiovascular

Artificial intelligence may play a key role in identifying the risk of cardiovascular disease

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21
Jul

Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common causes of death in Sweden and in the world. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, among others, have now found that artificial intelligence seems to play a role in identifying the risk of cardiovascular disease. The study, published in Cardiovascular Research, may in the future lead to […]

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Infection

Rachel Picone, DNP, joins Pen Bay Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease

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21
Jul

ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center welcomes Rachel Picone to the Pen Bay Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases team. Picone is accepting new primary care patients. Before joining PBMC, Picone worked as a nurse practitioner at HIV Alliance in Eugene, Ore., and in the Infectious Disease department at Berkshire Health Systems in Pittsfield, Mass.

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Infection

Long COVID can affect brain function for years after infection

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21
Jul

UK researchers have found that people with longer-term COVID-19 symptoms including brain fog showed reduced performance in tasks testing different mental processes up to two years after infection with the virus. Researchers from King’s College London looked at whether infection with COVID-19 affected performance in two rounds of online cognitive testing that took place in […]

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Blood

Tomah Health schedules two-day blood drive to fight strained supply

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21
Jul

TOMAH, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) – Tomah Health and Versiti Blood Center officials are asking area residents to help with a serious need for blood by donating on August 9th or 10th in Tomah. “Overall, blood drives during the summer have been very challenging,” said Versiti Blood Center account representative Emalea Cogdill. She said that with people […]

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Cardiovascular

LSU Health’s Lazartigues honored by American Heart Association

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21
Jul

image: Eric Lazartigues, PhD view more  Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA — The American Heart Association’s Council on Hypertension has selected Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Director of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, to present the 2023 Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture.             According to the Association, this award and […]

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Infection

Some people’s brain function still affected by long COVID years after infection

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21
Jul

<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/some-peoples-brain-fun.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2023/some-peoples-brain-fun.jpg" data-sub-html="Directed acyclic graph describing hypothesized causal pathways. Proposed directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) used to generate minimal adjustment variable sets for estimation of the total causal effect of variables on outcomes of participation in cognitive assessment (a) and cognitive performance (b). DAGs are structured approximately in order of data generation from left to […]

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Cancer and neoplasms

Quizartinib Plus Chemo Gains FDA Approval for Newly Diagnosed, FLT3-ITD+ AML

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21
Jul

Quizartinib (Vanflyta) has been approved by the FDA in combination with standard cytarabine and anthracycline induction and cytarabine consolidation, and as maintenance monotherapy after consolidation chemotherapy, for the treatment of adults with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that is FLT3-ITD positive, as detected by an FDA-approved test.1 The regulatory decision was supported by data […]

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Infection

Spike in dengue cases due to global warming, warns WHO

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21
Jul

“About half of the world’s population is at risk of dengue, and dengue affects approximately 129 countries,” said Dr Raman Velayudhan, WHO’s Head of the Global Programme on control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. “We estimate that about 100 to 400 million cases are reported every year. This is basically an estimate and the American region alone […]

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