A cheap, once-a-day pill combining aspirin with drugs that lower blood pressure and cholesterol cuts cardiovascular disease as a whole by a third, and heart attacks by more than half, researchers report in The Lancet. In clinical trials, the polypill was especially effective among people with no history of cardiovascular disease; reducing the number of severe events…
Kessler Foundation researchers have found a correlation between deficits in facial emotion recognition; and poor community integration in individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Their findings have implications for the development of rehabilitative interventions to reduce social isolation in this population, improve outcomes; and increase quality of life. Individuals with traumatic brain injury…
The study does not indicate that cesarean section deliveries cause autism or ADHD. The truth is much more difficult to decipher, and provides an excellent case study for the old adage that correlation does not equal causation. Autism and ADHD are what they call neurodevelopmental disorders. This means they have clear differences in behavioral development,…
A study published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, my colleagues and I reveal a concerning increase in paracetamol poisonings, and resulting liver damage, in Australia over the last decade. In fact, paracetamol is actually the number one pharmaceutical Australian poisons centers receive calls about. Paracetamol is safe if used appropriately, at a maximum of four…
A small trial of focal therapy for discrete lesions in the prostate using gold-silica nanoshells (GSN) directed laser technology (also called AuroLase Therapy, developed by Nanospectra). The study conducted in 15 patients who had low- to intermediate-risk prostate cancer. There were no serious side effects after 90 days, which was the primary endpoint of the…
Even if you are a non-smoker who exercises and has no genetic predisposition to cardiovascular disease; skimping on sleep or getting too much of it can boost your risk of heart attack, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study of nearly a half-million people. The research, published Sept. 2 in the Journal of…
In the recent clinical setting, Ultrasound (US) technology offers many advantages like multiplanar image acquisition, the ability to image real-time dynamic structures, lack of ionizing radiation; also utility in interventional procedures. US is also cost effective, non-invasive and can be used without Contrast Enhancement (CE) to visualize various tissues involve in all the major forms…
Early intensive vasodilation does not improve 180-day all-cause mortality and rehospitalization in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure, according to late breaking results of the GALACTIC trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology. Acute heart failure is the most common diagnosis in the emergency department…
Giving trauma patients with severe blood loss the hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP) cut the volume of blood products require to stabilize them by half, according to results of a new, first-of-its-kind clinical trial from Penn Medicine. The finding, published online this week in JAMA Surgery, suggests that administering AVP to trauma patients with severe bleeding…
18F‐labelled fluoro‐2‐deoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography 18F‐FDG PET/CT is used extensively in the setting of cancer staging and in assessing cancer treatment response. But Oncology patients have a sevenfold risk of developing pulmonary embolism (PE) due to underlying activation of the haemostatic system and anti‐cancer therapy inducing a hypercoagulable state. The diagnosis of PE on…
As people age, physical activity still needs to be part of the game plan for living a healthy, happy life and experts say it’s never too late to get active and build strength. “They try to tell people the body can still adapt, and it can still improve,” said Barbara Nicklas, a professor of gerontology…
Due to the large outbreaks and threats occuring by malaria; scientists join hands to protect Australia from growing threat of infectious disease. Initiating better protect and rapidly respond to the growing global risk of emergent infectious diseases which can spread to humans through animals and insects. Increased surveillance of wildlife, improving disease monitoring; and more…