AFib Risk After Heart Surgery: Is Potassium Supplementation Necessary?
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Month: September 2024
Athira Pharma’s Alzheimer’s Drug Fails in Mid-to-late Stage Trial
(Reuters) -Athira Pharma said on Tuesday its drug failed to meet the main goal in a mid-to-late stage trial in ...
Finerenone Benefits Heart Failure With Preserved EF
LONDON — The benefit of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) for the treatment of patients with heart failure and mildly reduced ...
Brain Clock Disparities; How Morphine Relieves Pain; Tolebrutinib and MS Disability
Brain clocks captured the diversity and disparities in accelerated aging and dementia in 15 countries. (Nature Medicine) The FBI released ...
TAVR’s Win in Women; Chest Pressure During Cardioversion; Doc Goes to Space
The RHEIA trial, which found transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) superior to surgery for women, was among the highlights of ...
Arthritis Patients More Likely to Stick With Biosimilars
Spanish patients with various forms of inflammatory arthritis who started either etanercept or adalimumab were more likely to continue taking ...
Meat Types and T2D; Semaglutide in Heart Failure; Acromegaly at the Paralympics
Consumption of unprocessed red meat, processed meat, and poultry were each tied with a higher risk of developing type 2 ...
Recent Developments in Seasonal Allergies
Advances in the management of and general understanding about seasonal allergies have continued to accumulate within the past 2 years. ...
Neffy Is About to Hit Shelves: Considerations for Prescribing
Rubin is a pediatrician specializing in allergy and immunology. The FDA recently approved the first needle-free epinephrine product (neffy), an ...
FDA OKs Updated Novavax COVID Shot
The FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for an updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine to protect against hospitalization and death from ...
Novel Drug Reduced Triglycerides, Risk of Pancreatitis in Persistent Chylomicronemia
Patients with the genetic recessive disorder persistent chylomicronemia who received the investigational drug plozasiran had significantly lower triglyceride levels and ...
Microglia: How the brain’s immune cells may be causing dementia
As you read this sentence, an army of cells patrols your brain. These soldiers slip around neurons, using their gangly ...
How understanding the brain’s microglia could end neurodegeneration
As you read this sentence, an army of cells patrols your brain. These soldiers slip around neurons, using their gangly ...
Novel Smart Mask Monitors Exhaled Breath Continuously
Researchers developed and validated a prototype of a mask-based device designed to continuously monitor exhaled breath condensate (EBC) in pilot ...
Young Girls Are Using Anti-Aging Products They See on TikTok. Experts Warn on Harms.
When she was in fifth grade, Scarlett Goddard Strahan started to worry about getting wrinkles. By the time she turned ...
Invasive Strategy for NSTEMI in the Elderly: Fears Don’t Pan Out in SENIOR-RITA
LONDON -- Routine coronary intervention was safe and somewhat beneficial for older people with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) in ...
The Widowmaker: Clarifying the Record for Our Patients
Graham is a retired physician. I'm a retired doctor who walks about 8 miles on some rural roads each morning. ...
ESC Streamlines Cardiovascular Guidelines | MedPage Today
LONDON -- A set of new European guidelines streamlined recommendations for atrial fibrillation (Afib), chronic coronary disease, peripheral artery disease ...
Giving Up Pets to Seek Rehab Can Worsen Trauma. A Group Intends to End That.
DENVER -- Simon Rubick had lost almost everything to decades of alcoholism and drug addiction. In 2022, he found himself ...
No Link Between Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer, WHO-backed Study Says
LONDON (Reuters) -There is no link between mobile phone use and an increased risk of brain cancer, according to a ...
