Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research shows that higher levels of inflammation in the blood of patients with obesity undergoing bariatric surgery predicts poorer weight loss six months after the…
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Redo transcatheter aortic valve replacement proven effective, safe
Raj Makkar, MD, Cedars-Sinai’s vice president of Cardiovascular Innovation and Intervention and the study’s senior author. Credit: Cedars-Sinai Cedars-Sinai investigators are experienced in the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement…
UN committee urges rich world to lift COVID jab patents
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A UN anti-racism committee on Thursday urged rich countries—particularly Britain, Germany, Switzerland and the United States—to waive coronavirus vaccine patents and said they violated a guarantee…
Scientists develop finger sweat test to detect antipsychotic drugs in patients
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Antipsychotic drugs treat incredibly vulnerable patients. Maintaining a treatment regimen is difficult for many patients, but not taking the medication is associated with a higher risk…
Avoid cannabis during adolescence, pregnancy and while driving, say experts
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Experts recommend avoiding cannabis during adolescence and early adulthood, in people prone to or with mental health disorders, in pregnancy, and before and while driving, based…
HEART-FID trial finds no significant benefit from ferric carboxymaltose in heart failure patient outcomes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A trial led by the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, has investigated the long-term safety and efficacy of supplementing heart failure patients with iron. In a…
Alcohol makes you more likely to approach attractive people but doesn’t make others seem better looking: Study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’s “liquid courage,” not necessarily “beer goggles”: New research indicates that consuming alcohol makes you more likely to approach people you already find attractive but does…
Some hospitals ban vaginal birth after cesarean. A California obstetrician rebelled and won
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Annette Fineberg realized the policy was bull. The obstetrician’s patient—who was overweight, in active labor, delivering a premature and thus small baby—had previously undergone a C-section,…
Resistant E. coli rises despite drop in ciprofloxacin use
Microbiology lab media plates show E. coli bacteria growing on E. coli selective agar (pink) and blood agar (red). Credit: Sokurenko Lab/UW Medicine After a nearly three-fold drop in prescriptions…
Mozart lullaby may ameliorate pain in newborns during heel prick blood test
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Playing a Mozart lullaby may help reduce the pain experienced by newborn babies undergoing a heel prick blood test, according to a randomized, blinded clinical trial…
