Canagliflozin, a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, was found to greatly improve symptoms and quality of life within 3 months for people with heart failure due to either reduced or preserved cardiac function, even if they didn’t also have type 2 diabetes, according to late-breaking research presented today at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2021. More than […]

Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s   Coronavirus Resource Center. The proportion of hypertensive patients with blood pressure control fell substantially in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, if the data from 24 health systems is representative of national trends. The decline in blood pressure control corresponded with – and might be explained by – a parallel […]

Trying to live a healthy lifestyle can sometimes feel like a lot of effort. That’s why this week’s Fit List includes easy ways to boost your health that fit into your busy routine. Not enough time for the gym? Try a flexi membership. Recommended: US wants to produce one billion doses of mRNA vaccine a year Need a healthy snack […]

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A new, updated risk score can help predict possible contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), Mount Sinai researchers report. They said the simple and unique assessment tool can enhance management of patients at high risk of CA-AKI before, during, and after PCI, and improve their prognosis following the procedure. The risk score, called "The […]

(Reuters Health) – During the pandemic, telemedicine use among seniors rose five-fold, but most seniors continued to see their physicians in person, a new study finds. Survey responses from a sample of Medicare enrollees revealed that their telemedicine use rose from 5.4% to 23.9%, while 59.9% saw their doctors in person, according to the report published in the Annals of […]

Mary Goodwin revealed that months since her Covid jab, she is “unable” to raise her arm high enough to “switch on a light” and struggles to put on coats or jumpers. Carrie Holness, 50, also “struggles to dress”, with every arm movement described as “agony” and is only now – many months after her second Covid dose – getting movement […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A young woman from Esperanza, Argentina, may be the first to clear HIV-1 naturally without stem cell transplantation, raising hopes that a “sterilizing cure” may be an “extremely rare but possible” outcome of HIV-1 infection, researchers say. While antiretroviral therapy (ART) can effectively suppress HIV-1 replication, a sterilizing cure during natural disease is “currently considered […]