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Focus on “Growing Stronger” for Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month in September
September is Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month, presented by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) as a way to drive awareness of pulmonary fibrosis (PF). PF is a progressi...Full Article
Mount Sinai Heart Earns Two Prestigious Recognitions for Heart Failure and Catherization Lab
Mount Sinai Heart at The Mount Sinai Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification in Heart Failure. This prestigious award is a symbol of highly skilled, ...Full Article
Breathe Easy: Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment Tips
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers not only in the U.S. but also worldwide. According to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics Center, more than 235,000 i...
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COVID Breakthrough Cases and the Importance of Vaccination
When three safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines became available in the United States (a Pfizer vaccine to prevent COVID-19 for people 12 years of age and older as well as Joh...Full Article
Fight-or-Flight Response is Altered in Healthy Young People Who Had COVID-19
New research published in The Journal of Physiology found that otherwise healthy young people diagnosed with COVID-19, regardless of their symptom severity, have problems with...
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Full-Dose Blood Thinners Reduce The Need For Organ Support In Moderately Ill Covid-19 Patients, But Not In Critically Ill Patients
A large clinical trial conducted worldwide shows that treating moderately ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients with a full-dose blood thinner reduced their need for organ suppor...Full Article
SIR Publishes New Position Statement And Quality Improvement Document On Percutaneous Lung Ablation
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) issued a new position statement on percutaneous lung ablation. The position statement was published in the August issue of the Jo...Full Article
Driving With Heart Disease: Checking Fitness To Drive
People suffering from various types of cardiovascular disease are subject to a certain accident risk when driving a vehicle on the road. High blood pressure, coronary heart di...Full Article
What You Need To Know About The Delta Variant
For more than 40 years, UCI infectious disease researcher Michael Buchmeier has studied coronaviruses, and he’s one of the leading experts on SARS-CoV-2, the version of the vi...Full Article
Contact Events in Rugby Union Linked to Reduced Blood Flow to The Brain, Impacting Brain Function
Repetitive contact events incurred over a single season resulted in professional rugby union players having a reduced ability to regulate blood flow to the brain, which is ess...Full Article
Antacids May Improve Blood Sugar Control In People With Diabetes
Antacids improved blood sugar control in people with diabetes but had no effect on reducing the risk of diabetes in the general population, according to a new meta-analysis pu...Full Article
Ohio State Surgeons Use Novel Heart Transplant Monitoring System
Heart surgeons at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are the first in central Ohio to use a novel organ monitoring system that preserves hearts donated for transp...Full Article
Potential Marker For Success of Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Lung Cancer
Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers, and treatment options are extremely limited, especially for patients with oncogenic mutations in the KRAS gene. A gr...Full Article
Study Links Sleep Apnea In Children To Increased Risk Of High Blood Pressure In Teen Years
Children with obstructive sleep apnea are nearly three times more likely to develop high blood pressure when they become teenagers than children who never experience sleep apn...Full Article
Full-Dose Blood Thinners Reduce The Need For Organ Support In Moderately Ill Covid-19 Patients, But Not In Critically Ill Patients
A large clinical trial conducted worldwide shows that treating moderately ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients with a full-dose blood thinner reduced their need for organ suppor...Full Article
People Who Manage Their Asthma Can Improve Their Chances Against Covid-19
To avoid severe COVID-19 outcomes, people with asthma should stay on top of the condition with control medication, a new USC study finds. Individuals with well-controlled as...Full Article
First Long COVID Guidance Statement on Fatigue Released By American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
The Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R) released the first in a series of peer-reviewed guidance statements to help physicians make clinical decisions con...Full Article
Valvular Heart Disease: The Underestimated Risk Of A Common Disease
Hitherto, the development of valvular heart disease in patients with chronic heart failure has been underestimated and rarely treated. This is the finding of a study conducted...Full Article
PFF Update on COVID-19 and Lung Fibrosis
Individuals who have been newly diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) following SARS-CoV-2 infection should be informed on how a PF diagnosis is made and what is still unknow...Full Article
‘Ghosted’ Long COVID Patients Validated by America’s Top Physicians in New Book
Doctors reveal the truth behind the terrible post-COVID epidemic now striking millions of parents and children Award-winning medical journalist Michael Bowker interviews phy...Full Article
About Variants of the Virus that Causes COVID-19
Information about the characteristics of these variants is rapidly emerging. Scientists are working to learn more about how easily they spread, whether they could cause more s...Full Article
Tailored, Earlier Cardiac Rehab Program Shows Physical, Emotional Benefits For Heart Failure Patients
NIH-funded clinical trial improved frailty, depression and overall quality of life. An innovative cardiac rehabilitation intervention started earlier and more custom-tailored...Full Article
Study Links Structural Brain Changes To Behavioral Problems In Children Who Snore
A large study of children has uncovered evidence that behavioral problems in children who snore may be associated with changes in the structure of their brain’s frontal lobe. ...Full Article
UCI-Led Meta-Analysis Identifies Hypertension Medications That Help Ward Off Memory Loss
A large-scale meta-analysis led by University of California, Irvine researchers provides the strongest evidence yet of which blood pressure medications help slow memory loss i...Full Article
Cedars-Sinai Uses Mock Patient Rooms to Test Hospital Design
Architects, Nurses, Physicians and Other Health Professionals Collaborate to Refine Design of Critical Rooms for New Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital. Cedars-Sinai archit...Full Article