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Total vascular score from PET scans prognostic in giant cell arteritis
medicalxpress.com > news...Lien Moreel, M.D., from the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study involving 106 patients with... ...Medicine.... ...Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm.... ...Cell Arteritis, Annals of Internal Medicine (2023). 10.7326/M23-0679 Increased aortic diameter raises risk of heart attack, stroke Discovering...
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France to hold crisis meetings on bedbug 'scourge"
medicalxpress.com > news...France to hold crisis meetings on bedbug 'scourge' Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The French government said Tuesday it would host emergency... ...seeing the creatures in locations including trains, the Paris metro and cinemas.... ...Health Minister Aurelien Rousseau insisted on France Inter radio there was no "general panic" over the issue.... ...The blood-sucking insects have been spotted in the Paris metro, high-speed trains and at Paris's Charles De Gaulle Airport....
medicalxpress.com — 27+ min ago
Independent physician practices can keep up with larger consolidated practices in a pandemic
medicalxpress.com > news...Independent physician practices can keep up with larger consolidated practices in a pandemic by George Mason University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public... ...Domain Large health systems are acquiring smaller physician practices at what some consider an alarming rate, leaving fewer independent practices... ...Anupam Jena of Harvard Medical School is the co-investigator and co-author.... ...More information: Alison Cuellar et al, Volume of Care for Primary Care Physicians in Integrated vs Independent Practices Through the COVID-19 Pandemic...
medicalxpress.com — 36+ min ago
PARMESAN: An AI-based predictive tool to find new treatments for genetic disorders
medicalxpress.com > news...An AI-based predictive tool to find new treatments for genetic disorders by Texas Children's Hospital PARMESAN constructs summary sentences from... ...Huda Zoghbi and Zhandong Liu at the Jan and Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of... ...," Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Dr....
medicalxpress.com — 36+ min ago
Sexual, gender minorities with chronic skin diseases more likely to face barriers to care
medicalxpress.com > news...Nock, from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study of health care access and utilization... ...Michael R.... ...More information: Nock et al, Barriers to Care Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals With Chronic Inflammatory Skin Diseases in the US, JAMA... ...The researchers found that SGM patients with CISDs were significantly more likely to delay specialist care, mental health care, and filling a prescription...
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Using recent diagnostic scans can substantially cut time to treatment for patients needing urgent palliation...
medicalxpress.com > news...Credit: CC0 Public Domain Using previously taken diagnostic computed tomography (CT) scans in place of CT simulation scans to plan simple palliative... ...Using recent diagnostic scans can substantially cut time to treatment for patients needing urgent palliation by American Society for Radiation Oncology... ...health systems," said lead study author Melissa O'Neil, MRT(T), MSc, an advanced practice radiation therapist at the London Health Sciences Centre... ...Findings will be presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting....
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An ancient anti-cancer mechanism: DISE
medicalxpress.com > news...DISE by Impact Journals LLC Credit: Oncotarget (2023). 10.18632/oncotarget.28466 A new editorial paper titled "DISE, an ancient anti-cancer mechanism... ...has been published in Oncotarget. In their new editorial, researchers Monal Patel and Marcus E.... ..., Oncotarget (2023). 10.18632/oncotarget.28466 Provided by Impact Journals LLC Suicide molecules kill any cancer cell Scientists identify a protein... ...More information: Monal Patel et al, DISE, an ancient anti-cancer mechanism that senses mutational load in cancerous cells?...
medicalxpress.com — 56+ min ago
Loneliness could raise risk for Parkinson's, study finds
medicalxpress.com > news...Angelina Sutin, a professor in the department of behavioral sciences and social medicine at Florida State University's College of Medicine in Tallahassee... ...Among more than 490,000 people listed in the UK Biobank who were followed for up to 15 years, loneliness appeared to increase the chances of a Parkinson's... ...Surgeon General, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and the World Health Organization.... ...Alessandro Di Rocco, system director of neurology, Parkinson's and movement disorders at Northwell Health in New York City....
medicalxpress.com — 1+ hour, 1+ min ago
Brain regions identified that may play a role in breathing failure following seizures
medicalxpress.com > news...Brain regions identified that may play a role in breathing failure following seizures by University of Iowa Researchers identified a site in the... ...Dlouhy lab, University of Iowa New findings may take scientists a step closer to understanding what causes SUDEP—Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy—a... ...Whittemore, Ph.D., program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health.... ..., who also is a member of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute....
medicalxpress.com — 59+ min ago
Oral lipid nanoparticle drug can prevent development of colitis-associated cancer, researchers find
medicalxpress.com > news...Oral lipid nanoparticle drug can prevent development of colitis-associated cancer, researchers find by LaTina Emerson , Georgia State University... ...Graphical Abstract.... ...scientist at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center.... ...Didier Merlin, senior author of the study, Regents" Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State, and senior research career...