Category Archives: Blood

Millions of adults could be wrongly diagnosed with high blood pressure

Leading heart health bodies have called for greater attention to be paid to how a patient has their blood pressure taken, over fears that millions of Americans may be misdiagnosed and wrongfully medicated because of inaccurate readings. Researchers at Ohio State University, along with the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology, have […]

Development of predictive models for lymphedema by using blood tests and therapy data

Abstract Lymphedema is a disease that refers to tissue swelling caused by an accumulation of protein-rich fluid that is usually drained through the lymphatic system. Detection of lymphedema is often based on expensive diagnoses such as bioimpedance spectroscopy, shear wave elastography, computed tomography, etc. In current machine learning models for lymphedema prediction, reliance on observable […]

Companies Devise New Ways to Smuggle Drugs Across the Blood-Brain Barrier

Pictured: abstract bokeh optical light/iStock, Oleksandr Bushko The blood-brain barrier: It’s neuroscience’s next frontier, and a presentation on Roche’s trontinemab at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference last month sparked new optimism that researchers might be getting close to breaking through it.    A diffusion barrier, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents about 98% of small molecule […]

Self-Monitoring Lowers Blood Pressure After Pregnancy Complicated by Hypertension

PHILADELPHIA — Postpartum blood pressure was improved following a hypertensive pregnancy with a self-managed, physician-guided telemonitoring program, the randomized POP-HT trial revealed. The intervention lowered mean 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure by 6.5/5.8 mm Hg compared with usual care at 9 months postpartum (both P<0.001), reported Jamie Kitt, DPhil, of the University of Oxford in England, […]

Dynamic blood flow imaging with 99mTc-hydroxymethylene diphosphonate as a therapeutic response marker in patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon

Abstract We evaluated the predictive value of dynamic blood flow scintigraphy with 99mTc-HDP (hydroxymethylene diphosphonate) for therapeutic response in patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP). Eighty patients who underwent dynamic blood flow scintigraphy using the one-hand chilling method were enrolled. We analyzed the quantitative variables as the ratio of chilled fingers to ambient fingers (CAfinger), that […]

Guardant Health launches Shield blood-based screening test for colorectal cancer in South Korea

SINGAPORE, Nov. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, announced that it has launched its blood-based colorectal cancer screening test, ShieldTM, in collaboration with Samsung Medical Center in South Korea. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths […]

Packers Give Back blood drive helping the Red Cross prepare for the winter

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – The Green Bay Packers Give Back Community Blood Drive will be at Lambeau Field’s Johnsonville Tailgate Village on Monday, Nov. 13. The drive will run from 7 in the morning until 7 at night and donors of all blood types are needed, especially those with Type O blood to help […]