Mayo Clinic Minute: Breaking healthcare barriers in the Hispanic community
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from Sept. 15 –Oct. 15. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the more than 60 million people of Hispanic heritage living in the U.S. Dr. Juan Carlos Leoni Moreno, a Mayo Clinic transplant cardiologist, says soaring obesity rates contribute to high rates of diabetes and heart disease in the Hispanic population. And healthcare disparities, including cultural differences, language barriers and lack of information, add to the challenges many Hispanic residents face. Watch: The Mayo Clinic… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 18, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Researchers develop RETFound, an AI tool capable of predicting the risk of ocular diseases, heart failure, Parkinson's disease, and more based on retinal images
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of diagnosing and predicting the risk of developing multiple health conditions — from ocular diseases to heart failure to Parkinson’s disease — all on the basis of people’s retinal images. AI tools have been trained to detect…#retfound #pearsekeane #nature1 #retinas #xiaoxuanliu #stanforduniversity #langlotz (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
McConnell ’ s Bid to Downplay Freezes Undermined by History of Politicians Lying About Their Health
After Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze during a press conference this month, the Kentucky Republican’s second such episode this summer, his office released a note from the Capitol physician intended to calm those worried about his ability to continue at his job.
Dr. Brian Monahan told McConnell in the letter that there was “no evidence that you have a seizure disorder or that you experienced a stroke, TIA or movement disorder such as Parkinson’s disease.” Monahan suggested the episodes may be related to the Leader’s concussion in March or to dehydration.
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Source: TIME: Health - September 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mini Racker Tags: Uncategorized Congress Source Type: news
Will Edwards Lifesciences Stock Recover To Its Pre-Inflation Shock Highs Of $130?
Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW), a medical technology company specializing in artificial heart valves, currently trades at $76 per share, about 10% lower than the level seen in March 2021, and it can see higher levels over time. EW stock was trading at around $95 in early June 2022, just before…#edwardslifesciences #sharpe #tavr #ps #russian #ukraine #sp500 #ew #edwards #comparison (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Advanced HF No Obstacle to AF Ablation Success: CASTLE-HTx Advanced HF No Obstacle to AF Ablation Success: CASTLE-HTx
This ' should help eradicate the current somewhat nihilistic approach ' to managing atrial fibrillation in advanced heart failure, said an expert.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - August 28, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman review – AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity
The DeepMind co-founder calls for the ‘containment’ of new technology in a heartfelt and candid exploration of what the future may hold for usWhat is it with wave metaphors? Technological determinists – people who believe that technology drives history – love them. Think ofAlvin Toffler, who saw the history of civilisation as a succession of three such waves (agricultural, industrial and post-industrial). The idea is of immense power, unstoppable, moving inexorably towards us as we cower before its immensity, much as the dinosaurs must have done when they saw themile-high tsunami heading in their direction.Mustafa ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: John Naughton Tags: Computing and the net books Artificial intelligence (AI) Science and nature books Synthetic biology Consciousness Genetics Technology Culture Source Type: news
Artificial Intelligence automates diagnosis of severe heart valve disease
A Yale research team has developed a new approach to detect a common valvular heart disease known as severe aortic stenosis from ultrasound scans of the heart. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - August 24, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
History of transplant breakthroughs: from hearts to hands … and heads?
After surgeons perform first womb transplant in UK, we look at other major advances through the yearsWoman ‘over the moon’ after sister donates womb in UK firstSurgeons have performed thefirst womb transplant in the UK, it has been announced. The 34-year-old recipient received her sister ’s uterus in an operation in February at Churchill hospital in Oxford that took nine hours and 20 minutes.We look at some other major transplant breakthroughs over the years – and consider what the future may hold.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Tobi Thomas Tags: Organ donation Health Women's health Society Science Medical research Doctors Source Type: news
Upping the Pace in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Therapy Upping the Pace in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Therapy
April Stempien-Otero, MD, discusses new approaches in uptitration for GDMT and progressive physical rehabilitation in acute decompensated heart failure treatment.American College of Cardiology & Medscape (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - August 22, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Cardiology Commentary Source Type: news
BBC science correspondent has heart age assessed by AI
BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh has the age of his heart assessed by artificial intelligence. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man marks advance, NYU surgeons say
A genetically altered pig kidney has functioned for 32 days in a brain-dead man. His heart is still beating, and he is breathing with the aid of a respirator. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lenny Bernstein Source Type: news
A Pig ’ s Kidney Has Been Working in a Human Body for a Month, a Medical Milestone
(NEW YORK) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.
Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal.
The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one — and it’s not over. Researchers are set to track the ki...
Source: TIME: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauren Neergard / Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized medicine Source Type: news
Pig kidney transplant in brain dead man marks advance, NYU surgeons say
A genetically altered pig kidney has functioned for 32 days in a man declared neurologically dead. His heart is still beating, and he is breathing with the aid of a respirator. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lenny Bernstein Source Type: news
News at a glance: A win for obesity drugs, NIH unionization roadblocks, and Mexican fireflies under threat
CONSERVATION
Researchers raise alarm over threat to Mexican fireflies
Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week delivered a letter to the Mexican government requesting it regulate tourism centered on the threatened firefly species
Photinus palaciosi
. Endemic to Mexico’s Tlaxcala forests,
P. palaciosi
is one of the few species that glow in synchrony, offering an annual spectacle that attracts thousands of visitors during summer mating season. The letter describes how littering, artificial light, and noise interfere with the insects’ ...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 10, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Red State Loses Key Cardiologist; Semaglutide Reduces CVD Risk; Pregnancy OK in HCM
(MedPage Today) -- The director of the only pediatric heart transplant program in Louisiana, a married gay man, says he is relocating to New York for a better LGBTQ+ environment. (Advocate)
Once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg (Wegovy) reduced major... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 8, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
