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How To Avoid China ’ s Medicine Monopoly
I want to share a shocking statistic with you… Around 80% of all the pharmaceuticals sold in America — both prescription and over-the-counter — are manufactured in China. I’m talking about drugs for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, blood pressure and blood thinners, diuretics, aspirin, antibiotics, and a big chunk of the world’s insulin and diabetes drugs — just to name a few.1 We don’t even make penicillin anymore. The last penicillin plant in the U.S. closed its doors in 2004. Americans who rely on medicine are now almost entirely at the mercy of a country whose relations with the U.S. have become more ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 19, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Health Source Type: news

AI-Guided Quantitative Plaque Staging Predicts Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients at Risk for Atherosclerotic CVD
CONCLUSIONS: Through 10-year follow-up, AI-QCT plaque staging showed important prognostic value for MACE and showed additional discriminatory value over clinical risk factors, CACS, and manual guideline-recommended CCTA assessment.PMID:37480907 | DOI:10.1016/j.jcmg.2023.05.020
Source: Atherosclerosis - July 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nick S Nurmohamed Michiel J Bom Ruurt A Jukema Robin J de Groot Roel S Driessen Pepijn A van Diemen Ruben W de Winter Emilie L Gaillard Ralf W Sprengers Erik S G Stroes James K Min James P Earls Rhanderson Cardoso Ron Blankstein Ibrahim Danad Andrew D Cho Source Type: research

Relationship Between Thoracic Aortic Calcification And Coronary Artery Calcium Measured On Chest CT Scans
Introduction: Cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) remain a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Identifying appropriate risk markers may allow detection of patients at high risk for stroke who would benefit from early initiation of preventative measures. Utilizing atherosclerotic burden of multiple vascular beds may allow for improved cardiovascular risk assessment. Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a well-established, excellent predictor of coronary heart disease, but its association with stroke is modest.
Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography - July 1, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: A. Zeitjian, B. Noor, V. Manubolu, A. Kinninger, M. Budoff Source Type: research

Streamlined Carotid Artery Calcification Labeling For Cta Scans
Introduction: We require vast amounts of manually labeled calcifications to train advanced machine learning classifiers for carotid artery plaque detection and phenotyping high-risk calcifications for ischemic stroke patients. We developed CTOOL, a web-based software for streamlined calcium labeling with minimal user interaction.
Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography - July 1, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: J. Kim, N. Arnett, J. Kotler, D. Shah, B. Cucchiara, J. Song, D. Haehn Source Type: research

Subclinical Vascular Composites Predict Clinical Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke, and Dementia: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
CONCLUSIONS: Subclinical vascular composites of arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis may be useful biomarkers to inform the vascular pathways contributing to events of CVD, CHD, stroke, and dementia.PMID:37205504 | PMC:PMC10187443 | DOI:10.1101/2023.05.01.23289364
Source: Atherosclerosis - May 19, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Timothy M Hughes Jordan Tanley Haiying Chen Christopher L Schaich Joseph Yeboah Mark A Espeland Joao A C Lima Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh Erin D Michos Jingzhong Ding Kathleen Hayden Ramon Casanova Suzanne Craft Stephen R Rapp Jos é A Luchsinger Annette L F Source Type: research

Systemic arterial calcium burden in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia
CONCLUSIONS: In CLTI patients nearly all arterial territories are severely calcified, suggesting that systemic calcification plays an important role in the poor outcome of this disease.PMID:37150661 | DOI:10.1016/j.jcct.2023.03.003
Source: Atherosclerosis - May 7, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: L C D Konijn W P T M Mali H van Overhagen R A P Takx H T C Veger P A de Jong Source Type: research

Neural circuit changes in neurological disorders: Evidence from in vivo two-photon imaging
Ageing Res Rev. 2023 Apr 13;87:101933. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2023.101933. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNeural circuits, such as synaptic plasticity and neural activity, are critical components of healthy brain function. The consequent dynamic remodeling of neural circuits is an ongoing procedure affecting neuronal activities. Disruption of this essential process results in diseases. Advanced microscopic applications such as two-photon laser scanning microscopy have recently been applied to understand neural circuit changes during disease since it can visualize fine structural and functional cellular activation in living anim...
Source: Ageing Research Reviews - April 15, 2023 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Huan Xiong Fei Tang Yujie Guo Ruxiang Xu Peng Lei Source Type: research

Neural Circuit Changes in Neurological Disorders: Evidence from in vivo Two-photon Imaging
Ageing Res Rev. 2023 Apr 13:101933. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2023.101933. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNeural circuits, such as synaptic plasticity and neural activity, are critical components of healthy brain function. The consequent dynamic remodeling of neural circuits is an ongoing procedure affecting neuronal activities. Disruption of this essential process results in diseases. Advanced microscopic applications such as two-photon laser scanning microscopy have recently been applied to understand neural circuit changes during disease since it can visualize fine structural and functional cellular activation in living animals...
Source: Ageing Research Reviews - April 15, 2023 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Huan Xiong Fei Tang Yujie Guo Ruxiang Xu Peng Lei Source Type: research

Repair of traumatic lesions to the plasmalemma of neurons and other cells: Commonalities, conflicts, and controversies
We describe current research gaps and potential future developments, such as much more extensive correlations of biochemical/biophysical measures with sub-cellular micromorphology. We compare and contrast naturally occurring sealing with recently-discovered artificially-induced plasmalemmal sealing by polyethylene glycol (PEG) that bypasses all natural pathways for membrane repair. We assess other recent developments such as adaptive membrane responses in neighboring cells following injury to an adjacent cell. Finally, we speculate how a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in natural and artificial plasmalemmal...
Source: Frontiers in Physiology - March 15, 2023 Category: Physiology Source Type: research

Unlucky numbers: Fighting murder convictions that rest on shoddy stats
LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS— When a Dutch nurse named Lucia de Berk stood trial for serial murder in 2003, statistician Richard Gill was aware of the case. But he saw no reason to stick his nose into it. De Berk was a pediatric nurse at Juliana Children’s Hospital in The Hague. In 2001, after a baby died while she was on duty, a colleague told superiors that De Berk had been present at a suspiciously high number of deaths and resuscitations. Hospital staff immediately informed the police. When investigators reexamined records from De Berk’s shifts, they found 10 suspicious incidents. Three other hospitals where D...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - January 19, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

How Menopause Affects Cholesterol —And How to Manage It
Kelly Officer, 49, eats a vegan diet and shuns most processed foods. So, after a recent routine blood test revealed that she had high cholesterol, “I was shocked and upset,” she says, “since it never has been [high] in the past.” Officer is not alone. As women enter menopause, cholestrol levels jump—by an average of 10-15%, or about 10 to 20 milligrams per deciliter. (A healthy adult cholesterol range is 125-200 milligrams per deciliter, according to the National Library of Medicine.) This change often goes unnoticed amidst physical symptoms and the general busyness of those years. But, says D...
Source: TIME: Health - September 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine Harmon Courage Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news

Association of Changed Serum Brain Biomarkers With Perihematomal Edema and Early Clinical Outcome in Primary ICH Patients
Background: Perihematomal edema (PHE) following primary intracranial hemorrhages (ICHs) affects the patient outcome. Also, serum biomarkers such as S100 calcium-binding protein B (S100B) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) have been associated with ICHs outcome. We aimed to investigate the association between these biomarkers and PHE in ICH patients. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, patients with primary ICH between January 2020 and August 2020 were evaluated. All participants underwent spiral brain computed tomography scans upon admission, and 48 to 72 hours later and quantification of initial hem...
Source: The Neurologist - July 1, 2022 Category: Neurology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Coronary artery calcifications and 6-month mortality in patients with COVID-19 without known atheromatous disease
CONCLUSIONS: Non-electrocardiogram-gated computed tomography during the initial pulmonary assessment of patients with COVID-19 without atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease showed a high prevalence of mild, moderate and heavy CAC. CAC score was related to 6-month mortality, independent of conventional cardiovascular risk factors. These results highlight the importance of CAC scoring for patients hospitalized with COVID-19, and calls for attention to patients with high CAC.PMID:35305915 | DOI:10.1016/j.acvd.2022.02.007
Source: Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases - March 20, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Anne-Sophie Le Hir Antoine Fayol Elie Mousseaux Nicolas Danchin Victoria Tea Chekrallah Chamandi Gilles Soulat Etienne Puymirat Source Type: research