CARLSBAD, Calif. (KGTV) – A 10-year-old boy is recovering in a local hospital room Wednesday night after he was sickened with E. coli nearly two weeks ago. Two Saturdays ago, 10-year-old Luca Wood came down with diarrhea. A week later, while the Riverside boy was visiting his dad in Carlsbad, he developed a fever and […]
PIX Now Afternoon Edition 9-20-23 PIX Now Afternoon Edition 9-20-23 08:27 SAN JOSE – Health officials in Santa Clara County have cast doubts on reports that a bacterial infection blamed on fish eaten by a San Jose woman caused her to undergo a quadruple amputation. Last week, a GoFundMe campaign was launched to support 40-year-old […]
When the coronavirus first started spreading on US shores, no one knew what to expect. But hidden signals — Google searches, virus levels in waste water, ER visits — foreshadowed the coming onslaught. Now the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to marshal the researchers who detected these signals and develop a […]
Abstract Despite serious health and longevity problems, small brachycephalic breeds are becoming increasingly popular among pet owners. Motivations for choosing short-nosed breeds have been extensively investigated in recent years; however, this issue has been addressed mainly by relying on owner reports, resulting in explanations of “cute looks”, referring to the baby-schema phenomenon and “behaviour well […]
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a serious public health problem associated with high risk of cardiovascular complications and mortality [1]. The overall prevalence of PAD in people aged 25 years and older is 5.56% with the prevalence increasing consistently with age [2]. PAD is the important risk factor for lower-extremity amputation, especially in diabetic patients […]
Virani SS, Alonso A, Benjamin EJ, Bittencourt MS, Callaway CW, Carson AP, Chamberlain AM, Chang AR, Cheng S, Delling FN, et al. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2020 update: a Report from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2020;141(9):e139–e596. PubMed Google Scholar Sheng-Shou HU. Report on cardiovascular health and diseases in China 2021: an updated summary. Biomed […]
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Biodexa Pharmaceuticals PLC(“Biodexa” or the “Company”) Biodexa to Present Recruitment and Treatment Update in Phase 1 Study of MTX-110 (MAGIC-G1 Study) in Patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma at 2023 Annual European Association of Neuro-Oncology Meeting (EANO) Biodexa Pharmaceuticals PLC (Nasdaq: BDRX), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of products aimed at primary and metastatic […]
United Nations, UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities 2006 [Available from: https://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convoptprot-e.pdf. Developmental disabilities among children younger than 5 years in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Glob Health 2018;6(10):e1100-e21. National Research C. Institute of Medicine Committee on Integrating the Science […]
Abstract Head and neck cancer (HNC) was the seventh most common cancer in the world in 2018. Treatment of a patient may include surgery, radiotherapy (RT), chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, or a combination of these methods. Ionizing radiation used during RT covers relatively large volumes of healthy tissue surrounding the tumor. The acute form of […]