Close to one-fifth of kids with COVID-19 may still have lingering symptoms months after their initial infection, new research finds. The review, of 31 international studies, found that over 16% of children and teenagers with COVID had problems such as sore throat, persistent fevers, fatigue and muscle weakness at least three months later. Experts said […]
<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 […]
Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan understands the importance of the most vital organ in our body only too well. When she was in her 20s and embarking on her career in medicine, her mother died from a heart attack at only 42. It came out of nowhere, as she had no known history of heart disease. “I […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
<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 […]
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 […]