Liver disease: NHS Doctor talks about link with alcohol We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Hepatocellular carcinoma is the “most common form of liver cancer”, Dr […]
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Late last month Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, raised eyebrows around the country when she claimed that a reporter’s question about her COVID-19 vaccination status was a “violation of my HIPAA rights.” Not even close, legal experts say. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a 1996 federal law, is a widely cited and misunderstood privacy statutes. […]
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A multidisciplinary panel has developed a new severity grading system they believe can help standardize how healthcare professionals and patients communicate about acute allergic reactions. Using Delphi methodology, the panel, consisting of 21 experts in allergy and emergency care across multiple disciplines, reached consensus on the new system, which categorizes acute allergic reactions into five severity grades from mild to […]
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What The Health? · Delta Blues The U.S. is experiencing another surge of covid-19, particularly in Southern states where vaccination rates are generally lower than in other regions. But partisan fights rage on over what role government should play in trying to tamp down the highly contagious delta variant. Meanwhile, Democrats spent the week fighting amongst themselves about how to […]
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Melinda Pettigrew, Ph.D., the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Epidemiology, researches the growing public health threat posed by antibiotic resistance. She uses microbiology and infectious disease epidemiology to identify factors that influence whether pathobionts colonize or cause diseases such as pneumonia. Additionally, she is studying whether shorter regimens of antibiotics may be effective in some cases. In the race between […]
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More children admitted to hospitals in 2018 had acute bronchitis than any other diagnosis, according to a recent report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. About 7% (99,000) of the 1.47 million nonmaternal, nonneonatal hospital stays in children aged 0-17 years involved a primary diagnosis of acute bronchitis in 2018, representing the leading cause of admissions in boys […]
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Diabetes type 2: Dr Zoe Williams discusses high blood sugar risks We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The charity Diabetes UK stated that high blood sugar […]
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FILE PHOTO: A laboratory technician shows Remdesivir, a drug used in the treatment of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Eva Pharma facility in Cairo, Egypt June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El GhanyHANOI(Reuters) – Vietnam is set to approve the use of Gilead Sciences Inc’s antiviral drug remdesivir for the treatment of patients who have contracted the coronavirus, state media reported […]
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A new policy report released today by the global non-profit research and development organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) highlights how the development of therapeutics has been relatively neglected in the global response to COVID-19 and warns that with the few treatment innovations available principally in high-income countries, we risk repeating history and replicating the vaccine inequality that has […]
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A new tool that provides cardiologists with rapid information to treat patients with heart disease and save lives lost from heart attacks is a finalist in the WA Innovator of the Year 2021 Awards. Dr Lachlan Kelsey. Image Credit: University of Western Australia Apricot, an advanced coronary artery assessment tool, developed by a team of researchers from The University of […]
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