Sepsis blood test combined with AI could offer early detection tool
Researchers say dual approach could quickly detect patients most at risk of severe complicationsDoctors say combining a simple blood test with artificial intelligence could help diagnose sepsis faster and identifypatients at the highest risk of severe complications.Sepsis is a serious condition in which the body fails to respond properly to infection. It can progress to septic shock, which can damage the lungs, kidneys, liver and other organs. When the damage is severe, it can lead to death, with an estimated 11 million sepsis-related deaths worldwide each year.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 29, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Sepsis Medical research Health NHS Artificial intelligence (AI) Science Sweden Technology Source Type: news
NYU Langone begins histotripsy for liver cancer
NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center is using histotripsy for some liver cancer cases, it said in a March 28 blog post.
Histotripsy uses focused ultrasound to deliver external beams intended to destroy cancerous tissue while leaving surrounding tissue intact. Histotripsy could become an option for patients who might otherwise be unlikely candidates for radiation or other ablation techniques, according to NYU Langone Health.
"This device allows us to offer ablation to patients who would normally not be good candidates," said Mikhail Silk, MD, an interventional radiologist at NYU Langone who performed the proced...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 29, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
News at a glance: Domestic U.S. postdocs, edited pig organs, and the Milky Way ’s central black hole
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South Korea joins Horizon Europe
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (center) and EU leaders announced a research funding deal.
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South Korea will participate in the €95.5 billion ($104 billion) Horizon Europe R&D program, the first East Asian country to do so, the European Commission announced last week. South Korean scientists will compete for grants on an equal footing with their European counterparts; in return, South Korea will contribute an as-yet-undisclosed amount to the 7-year program, which expires in 20...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Acute high-output heart failure with pulmonary hypertension and severe liver injury caused by amlodipine poisoning: a case report - Wang C, Zhu Q, Tan D, Walline J, Wang Y.
We report a 52-year-old woman who suffered from severe shock after an overdose of amlodipine. Hemodynamic monitoring showed tha... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Doctor Gets First U.S. Lung-Liver Transplant for Advanced Lung Cancer
THURSDAY, March 28, 2024 -- Dr. Gary Gibbon didn’t have long to live.
A harsh cocktail of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy for his advanced lung cancer had permanently destroyed his lungs and caused irreparable damage to his... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Aspirin Shows Promise In Treating Common Liver Disease
Daily low dose aspirin may be an effective treatment for a common type of liver disease, according to a new study. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 28, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Victoria Forster, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Promising First-In-Human Phase 1B Clinical Study Data from VRON-0200, a Novel, First-in-Class Checkpoint Modifier Immunotherapy for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Functional Cure, Presented as Late-Breaker at 2024 APASL Global Liver Meeting
Highlights from the Data Presentation Initial safety data presented on the first 10 chronically HBV-infected patients representing 674 patient days of treatment VRON-0200 was well tolerated, with no serious adverse events (SAEs) observed: no patients discontinued treatment one treatment... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 28, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TRI Source Type: news
Could Deep Frying Foods Harm the Brain? Rat Study Suggests It Might
WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 -- Fried foods not only wreck the waistline, but they could also be harming the brain, a new study of lab rats suggests.
Fed chow that was fried in sesame or sunflower oil, the rodents developed liver and colon problems... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 27, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Assessing the impact of a new medical toxicology service on the treatment of paracetamol overdose at a large tertiary care hospital - Bronshtein E, Segev O, Scolnik D, Glatstein M.
BACKGROUND: Paracetamol overdose is the most common cause of acute liver failure in the United States. Administration of acetylcysteine is the standard of care for this intoxication. Laboratory values and clinical criteria are used to guide treatment durat... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
FDA approves first drug for NASH — a severe form of fatty liver disease
A Yale Medicine expert discusses Rezdiffra, a new treatment for a serious subtype of fatty liver disease that is not caused by heavy alcohol use. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - March 25, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
VCTE-Based Agile Scores Accurate in Predicting Liver-Related Events in MASLD
(MedPage Today) -- The use of Agile scores based on vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE) accurately predicted liver-related events in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), according to a cohort... (Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology)
Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology - March 25, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Weight-loss drugs will not be the only blockbusters against this silent killer
Madrigal is the first to win approval for a treatment for a liver disease that affects one in 20 (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - March 25, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
How to Manage Anxiety and Depression When You Have Kidney Cancer
When Katie Coleman was diagnosed at age 29 with a softball-sized tumor on her right kidney and a host of smaller growths in her liver, she was stunned. That astonishment quickly gave way to feelings of hopelessness. “I felt like my entire world was being pulled out from under me,” Coleman, now 32, says. “I went into a very dark spiral.”
Though her surgeon removed all the tumors, it wasn’t clear what her long- or even short- term prognosis was. What she found on the internet just freaked her out more. “One night I spiraled so deep I didn’t know whether life was worth living anymo...
Source: TIME: Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Linda Carroll Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
CT shows effects of sarcopenia on liver cancer survival
CT has revealed that sarcopenia is a prognostic factor for poor overall survival after liver resection for cancer, researchers have reported.
Five-year overall survival was significantly lower in sarcopenic patients than in those without the condition, at 58.2% and 83.6%, respectively, a team led by Thanatchawan Polvieng, MD, of Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, reported. The results were published March 22 in American Surgeon.
"Major postoperative complications were more frequent in sarcopenia," the group noted.
Polvieng and colleagues conducted a study that explored the prognostic impact of sarcopenia (i....
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 22, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Abdominal Imaging Source Type: news
Chinese patient receives first successful pig-to-human liver transplant
Semafor Signals Supported by The News Scientists have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a human for the first time Chinese researchers inserted the liver, which was taken from a pig that had been genetically edited to remove proteins that can cause organ rejection,…#newsscientists #wechat #newyorkuniversity #kathyguillermo #nature #scmp (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
