Malformed hearts due to genetics
Every year, thousands of babies are born with severely malformed hearts, disorders known collectively as congenital heart disease. Many of these defects can be repaired though surgery, but… read more.
Every year, thousands of babies are born with severely malformed hearts, disorders known collectively as congenital heart disease. Many of these defects can be repaired though surgery, but… read more.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Patients with an elevated cardiac risk treated with beta-blockers on the day of or day following non-cardiac, non-vascular surgery have achieved significantly… read more.
Most patients with psoriatic arthritis responded well to a first-line biologic, but for many of those who didn’t initially respond, switching to another agent proved beneficial.
Patients with systemic vasculitis who require steroids for long periods or who have multiple relapses are likely to have extensive, irreversible organ damage.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston, Massachusetts report that topical anakinra,… read more.
Dietary nicotine may hold protective key. New research reveals that Solanaceae—a flowering plant family with some species producing foods that are edible sources of nicotine—may provide a protective… read more.
A large scale, five year study of mosquitoes from different ecological regions in Kenya, including savannah grassland, semi-arid Acacia thorn bushes, and mangrove swamps, found a reservoir of… read more.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Patients suffering chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy treated with the anti-depressant duloxetine for 5 weeks achieved a greater reduction in pain compared with patients… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from the BMJ – Researchers have reported a significant decline in the proportion of young women diagnosed with genital warts in Australia following… read more.
New research shows that growing up in areas where air pollution is increased raises the risk of insulin resistance (the prescursor to diabetes) in children. Previous studies have… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from The Lancet – Results from a new retrospective study of data from a large mother-child population in the UK suggest that maternal… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from JAMA – Among non-diabetic adults, smoking cessation compared with continued smoking correlates to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, even with subsequent… read more.
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