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While walking their dogs last June in their Lynwood, California, neighborhood, Cecilia A. and her husband, Milton, noticed two young kittens near a sidewalk in front of a house. “One of the kittens was trying to play with the other one, who just laid there,” Cecilia recalls. When Cecilia approached, the playful kitten ran off. […]
Doctors at Yale New Haven Hospital used a more aggressive selection process to more than quadruple the number of heart transplants performed there while maintaining positive patient outcomes, according to a new study. The findings suggest that a more inclusive approach to selecting donor hearts and transplant recipients can enable hospitals to successfully treat more […]
A nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Ocilla, Georgia, is speaking out about high rates of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women under custody, allegedly without their full knowledge and consent. The accusation came to light in a whistleblower complaint filed on Monday. Human rights and immigration advocacy groups filed […]
Differences in biological sex can dictate lifelong disease patterns, says a new study by Michigan State University researchers that links connections between specific hormones present before and after birth with immune response and lifelong immunological disease development. Published in the most recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study answers […]
(HealthDay)—More than three-quarters of Americans with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience financial difficulties that often prevent them from getting treatment, new research claims. “Our study results demonstrate the high prevalence of financial toxicity for MS patients and the resulting decisions patients make that impact their health care and lifestyle,” said study author Dr. Gelareh Sadigh, an […]
Rural areas with local access to obstetrical care report better infant health outcomes, including lower infant mortality rates and fewer babies delivered underweight. The retrospective cohort study compared the birth outcomes of rural counties in Alabama with in-county obstetrical care to those without over a 12-year span from 2003 to 2017. Across all four outcome […]
A detailed analysis of UK data from a global obesity study (the ACTION-IO study) has shown that, on average, people with obesity (PwO) in the UK were struggling with their weight for 9 years before they sought help from a healthcare professional/HCP, much longer than the global average of 6 years found in this study. […]
Dapagliflozin reduces the risk of kidney failure, death from cardiovascular causes or heart failure hospitalization, and all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease patients with or without type 2 diabetes. That’s the main result of the DAPA-CKD trial presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2020. The DAPA-CKD trial tested the hypothesis that […]
As her friends moaned about getting their first periods, Dani Coyle, from Swindon, was left puzzled. While she had developed horrendous stomach cramps, her period never arrived. The teenager went to her GP and was referred to specialists, who diagnosed Dani as intersex at the age of 14. Being intersex means that Dani has biological […]
An educational mailing for atrial fibrillation patients and their clinicians did not increase uptake of stroke prevention drugs, according to results of the IMPACT-AFib trial presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2020. Patients with atrial fibrillation are at increased risk of stroke. Studies have shown that most of these strokes can […]