Transcript Geoffrey Grammer, MD: I found this first statistic to be intriguing. 8 to 19% of nasal esketamine treated patients experienced a greater than 40mmHg increase in systolic blood pressure and a greater than 25mm in mercury in diastolic blood pressure in the first one and a half hours after administration. So, if you think […]
Credit: peterschreiber.media/Getty Images A new review published in The Lancet Neurology by researchers at Mass General Brigham presents findings indicating that cardiovascular disease risk may be increased by traumatic brain injury (TBI). The review presented evidence of the long-term associations between TBI and cardiovascular disease noting that post-injury comorbidities, as well as neuroinflammation, and changes […]
In a population of patients in India with multiple myeloma (MM) treated using autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (AHCT), infections and transplant-related mortality (TRM) appeared to show higher incidence than in countries with established transplant programs. This is according to the results of a new study published in the journal Transplant Infectious Disease. This was a […]
Secondhand smoke poses a significant health risk, and millions of Americans are unknowingly exposed to toxic smoke on a regular basis, a new study suggests. The study, published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, found 56 million American adults were frequently exposed to toxic secondhand smoke, and that a third of them may be […]
Each person who signs up to help quell the region’s blood shortage can save the lives of up to three people, according to the New York Blood Center, including surgery and cancer patients, accident victims and new mothers and babies. Information on how to donate blood or schedule a drive is at nybc.org. Upcoming drives […]
The number of babies born with syphilis in Mississippi has increased more than tenfold since 2016, amid US-wide growth in cases of the potentially fatal but entirely preventable disease. Rates of congenital syphilis, which occurs when a mother transmits the infection to the fetus, have more than doubled over the past five years, with the […]
You almost certainly know someone living with hypertension (high blood pressure). That person might be you yourself. As noted in a new World Health Organization (WHO) stock-take report, its first on hypertension globally, fully one in three adults has hypertension. The number of people with the condition has doubled in the past 30 years, to […]
AVONDALE — More people have fallen ill following a salmonella outbreak at an Avondale taqueria. As of Wednesday, Chicago’s Department of Public Health had identified 55 confirmed infections stemming from the outbreak at Carniceria Guanajuato at 3140 N. California Ave., up from 20 last week, city spokesman Jacob Martin said in a statement. At least […]
Every summer, you see the same kind of headline: “Person dies from a ‘brain-eating’ amoeba.” You probably scroll through the article, shudder a bit, think twice about going swimming and move on. But this summer, that headline hit closer to home. A Travis County resident was infected and killed by the amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, after […]
