Prior infection by a parasitic hookworm has been shown to protect mice from severe SARS-CoV-2 disease, offering a potential explanation as to why certain human populations seemed to fare better during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This work stemmed from an observation that certain regions in the world didn’t fare as badly from the early days of the pandemic […]

TOPLINE: Adults with atrial fibrillation (AF) and type 2 diabetes and treated with an agent from the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor class who underwent AF ablation had a significantly reduced rate of recurrent AF compared with those not receiving an SGLT2 inhibitor, in a retrospective, observational study of 4450 US patients ablated during the years 2014-2021. METHODOLOGY: The TriNetX […]

Photo: Wolters Kluwer Health Hospital and health system executives are all too familiar with clinician burnout, an industry-wide problem that threatens healthcare quality and accessibility. Forward thinking execs are on the hunt for strategies and technologies that can help combat burnout and improve the daily lives of their caregivers. Healthcare IT News spoke recently with Julie Frey, director of product […]

In elderly patients with suspected prostate cancer, a prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography (PSMA PET) CT scan can diagnose advanced disease and aid in therapy selection without the need for a biopsy. Published in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, this new research demonstrates how imaging with PSMA PET/CT can potentially reduce the number of prostate […]

For the third time this year, I found myself sitting on the kitchen floor with my head in my hands, having what I can only describe as a meltdown of epic proportions. The tears wouldn’t stop, I felt as if I was about to be sick. Someone handed me a glass of water, which I forced myself to swallow to steady my breathing, to reduce […]

Reviewers’ Notes A new study by Texas A&M AgriLife revealed a range of health and dietary benefits of consuming cardamom, including increased appetite, fat loss and inflammation reduction, making the spice a "superfood." The study's principal investigator, Luis Cisneros-Zevallos, Ph.D., horticulture and food science professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and […]

If you get cross-eyed thinking about carbohydrates, that’s understandable. They can be, quite literally, both simple and complex. They abound in snacks that nobody would call healthy but also appear in foods considered essential to good health. “It gets a little confusing,” said Andrew Odegaard, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, Irvine. Even experts disagree […]

Feelings of stress and dread over climate change are very common, and should probably be even more so. A survey by Gumtree found that, of 2,000 British participants, 74% said they feel climate anxiety. This anxiety is particularly strong among 18-24-year-olds, with 51% saying they felt they weren’t doing enough to be sustainable. But what is living under this constant […]

As parents, we’re always taking our kids to things that we may not have expected to do on a Wednesday night, Friday night, or what have you. One of the roles as parents is taking our kids to see their favorite artists, and Tom Brady did the ultimate girl dad move in trying to make his daughter Vivian’s day. On […]

Dr Amir says big toe can reveal diabetes and heart disease Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease, with around 200 million people living with this condition around the world. Also known as ischaemic heart disease or coronary artery disease, it occurs when a build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries blocks your blood supply to […]