Real-World Study Confirms Benefit of XARELTO ® (rivaroxaban) for Secondary Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Cancer Patients
TITUSVILLE, NJ, December 9, 2022 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced observational data from eight years of clinical practice showing that the oral Factor Xa inhibitor XARELTO® (rivaroxaban) is associated with comparable effectiveness and safety to the Factor Xa inhibitor apixaban for the treatment of cancer-associated thromboembolism (CAT) in a broad cohort of patients with various cancer types. Patients with CAT are at a higher risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), which is the second-leading cause of death in people with cancer.1Data from the Observational Study in Cancer-A...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - December 9, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Online Heart Transplant Resources Overly Complex
TUESDAY, Dec. 6, 2022 -- Online resources from the nation ’s heart transplant center websites are not easily readable or understandable for most Americans, according to a study published online Oct. 22 in the Journal of Cardiac Failure.
James W.... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - December 6, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Start talking to avert health strikes later this month
Ambulance crews working for five services in England – London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West – are to go on strike over pay and staffing on Wednesday 21 December, says their union UNISON today (Tuesday).
The pre-Christmas date coincides with action being planned by two other unions – GMB and Unite – with members in ambulances services in England.
The UNISON strike involving paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians and other 999 crew members will run from midday to midnight.
The ambulance workers are to be joined by nurses, porters, healthcare assistants, cleaners and ot...
Source: UNISON Health care news - December 6, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release nhs pay Put NHS pay right strikes Source Type: news
Tiny Blood Clots May Be to Blame for Long COVID Symptoms, Some Researchers Say
Blood clotting is a normal, healthy process. It’s what stops the bleeding when you slice your finger in the kitchen, for example. But sometimes, clotting goes awry. Clots that block major blood vessels can lead to potentially fatal issues like strokes or heart attacks. Tiny clots in the body’s small blood vessels can also be dangerous.
Autopsies of people who died from COVID-19 have shown that some patients develop these tiny “microclots” in their lungs, potentially contributing to respiratory failure. And now, a growing group of researchers believe microclots may also be to blame, at least in part,...
Source: TIME: Health - December 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
AI boosts patient follow-up imaging compliance
A new study from Philadelphia has proved that using an artificial intelligenc...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 30, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Early research suggests promising use of AI to predict risk of heart attack or stroke using a single chest X-ray
Early research suggests a promising use of artificial intelligence to predict the 10-year risk of death from a heart attack or stroke from a single chest X-ray. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Small victories: South Africa is struggling to improve kids ’ health decades after apartheid’s demise
KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA—
By her country’s standards at the time, there was nothing too unusual about how Nosipho Mshengu arrived in the world. She was born on the side of the road on 20 September 1993, as her mother tried to get from Mafakatini, a rural village in South Africa where there was then no health facility, to a Roman Catholic clinic an hour away. The bus she awaited was nowhere in sight when time ran out, and Mshengu made her entry then and there.
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
A little more than 14 years later, Mshengu was pregnant herself. Her labor story...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 22, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
'Amazing': Mom hears late daughter's transplanted heart
An Indiana woman heard the heartbeat of her late daughter inside the chest of a 68-year-old Illinois man who received it in a transplant operation (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Indian medical devices more cost-effective: Union Minister
The Minister of State (independent charge) for Science and Technology was addressing the faculty and students after inaugurating the combined devices block at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) here. Technologies like the artificial heart valve, hydrocephalus shunt, oxygenator and drug-eluting intra-uterine device developed by the SCTIMST are being manufactured in countries like the USA, Japan, Brazil, and China, he said. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - November 15, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
AI transforms smartwatch ECG signals into a diagnostic tool for heart failure
Two health tech advances are at the heart of a study published in Nature Medicine: an app and backend infrastructure to let patients remotely share smartwatch ECG data with their clinicians in an easy and secure way, and the modification of a proven 12-lead ECG artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to enable it to run on a single-lead watch ECG recording. An AI algorithm applied to Apple Watch ECG recordings successfully identified a weak heart pump… (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - November 14, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: news
How AI Is Changing Medical Imaging to Improve Patient Care
That doctors can peer into the human body without making a single incision once seemed like a miraculous concept. But medical imaging in radiology has come a long way, and the latest artificial intelligence (AI)-driven techniques are going much further: exploiting the massive computing abilities of AI and machine learning to mine body scans for differences that even the human eye can miss.
Imaging in medicine now involves sophisticated ways of analyzing every data point to distinguish disease from health and signal from noise. If the first few decades of radiology were about refining the resolution of the pictures taken of...
Source: TIME: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Innovation sponsorshipblock Source Type: news
Review: In ‘Almost Famous,’ the Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll Flatlines
Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film, set in the world of bands and groupies, does not survive its Broadway musical transplant. #broadway #groupies #cameroncrowe #heartofrocknroll #almostfamous (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Heart Transplant Outcomes Similar With COVID-19 –Positive Donors Heart Transplant Outcomes Similar With COVID-19 –Positive Donors
Short-term outcomes are reassuring for US patients receiving COVID-19 –positive hearts for transplantation, two studies suggest.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - November 3, 2022 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
A Huge Leap For Infant Heart Transplantation A Huge Leap For Infant Heart Transplantation
A look at the recent infant heart-thymus transplantation at Duke Health and what it could mean for patients in the future.ACC.org (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - November 2, 2022 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Cardiology Journal Article Source Type: news
Cleerly releases new workflow software for CCTA
Artificial intelligence software developer Cleerly has released Proxy, a ne...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Canon to partner with Cleerly on cardiac CT technology (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 31, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
