Catheter Ablation With Mapping Likely Bests Conventional Approach to Tachycardia Over the Long Term

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Catheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) using a minimal fluoroscopic approach (MFA) and electroanatomic mapping (EAM) achieved better long-term outcomes and fewer complications than conventional ablation (ConvA), a single center retrospective study suggests. “Our article should raise awareness that MFA may help not only in reducing X-ray exposure, which is of paramount importance, but also […]

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'Nonstop' Fights! Megan Fox Compares House to UFC Ring While Raising Sons

Keeping Megan Fox on her toes! The actress opened up to Kelly Clarkson about raising her and estranged husband Brian Austin Green’s three “rambunctious” sons. Rachel Bilson, Hayden Christensen and More Exes Crushing Coparenting “It’s like UFC Fight Night all day, every day,” the Tennessee native, 34, joked during the Thursday, May 6, episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. “Forks […]

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Structural Racism Tied to Psychosis Risk in Black People

Social and economic disparities are linked to an increased risk for psychosis in racialized communities, new research shows. Results of a literature review of social and economic disparities in mental illness suggest that “structural racism” contributes to social and environmental conditions that affect psychosis risk. “Black and Latino people suffer disproportionately from psychosis risk factors, at the neighborhood level and […]

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Human organoids useful for modeling COVID-19 variants of concern, finds study

First detected in the United Kingdom, the B.1.1.7 variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has exhibited heightened transmissibility compared to older strains. A new study published on the bioRxiv* preprint server found that using human organoids could help with better characterizing the phenotype of several viral variants, including B.1.1.7. Their findings show the ribonucleic acid (RNA) shedding […]

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