Category: Medicine

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON – AACC has sent comments to the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee urging the committee not to include the VALID Act in its omnibus Food and Drug Administration (FDA) user fee legislation.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – According to folklore, silver bullets kill werewolves, but in the real world, researchers want to harness this metal to fight another deadly foe: bacteria.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MAYWOOD, IL – As part of Loyola Medicine’s commitment to making health care accessible to all, Loyola has added American Sign Language (ASL) to the translation services available for individuals making telehealth appointments.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES (April 4, 2022) — Every Thursday, a panel of from Cedars-Sinai gathers on a video call to spend a full hour talking about a single patient. Each week, the patient is different, but all have one thing in common:

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology are two outlier medical specialties that had abnormally high increases in charges from 2010 to 2019….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Rush University is launching a new residency program aimed at curbing health inequities across the West and Southwest sides of Chicago.

(HealthNews/digest.com) – The largest clinical review of immune responses to paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioid analgesics, with a focus on infectious diseases….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New research by David Markowitz, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, has uncovered pervasive gender and ethnicity biases across medicine.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DETROIT – Researchers at Henry Ford Health System, as part of a national hepatitis C collaborative, report that patients with chronic hepatitis C who are treated with direct-acting antiviral medicines….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UC San Diego Health is the first organization to be recognized as a Certified Center of Excellence in Medication-Use Safety and Pharmacy Practice (COE) by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHSP).

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Ketamine Infusions Found Promising for PTSD  A team of researchers led by Dennis Charney, MD, Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine, and Adriana Feder, MD found that repeated intravenous ketamine infusions….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has re-launched its Rett Syndrome Clinic in an expanded space: the new Neurological Institute Outpatient Center, which opened earlier this year at the hospital’s Sunset Boulevard campus.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – For centuries, people all over the world have been using medical plants to fight infections, boost wound healing, and for religious ceremonies.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Los Angeles –The investigators are partnering with a private firm—Space Tango, of Lexington, Kentucky—to send “induced pluripotent stem cells” (known as iPSCs) to the International Space Station….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Today, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic advancements made by research scientists and engineers are driving more targeted medical therapies through the power of prediction.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Every year millions of people struggle through the confusing and stressful process of finding the right ostomy supplies to manage their health at home.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola Medicine’s Center for Aortic Disease is set to host a free abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) ultrasound screening event on Saturday, November 6.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – I’ve heard several drugs mentioned as possible treatments for COVID-19. What are they, and how do they work?

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Why does SARS-CoV-2 shapeshift wildly from one person to the next, causing barely a sniffle in some but raging, lethal infections in others?

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a rapid-sealing paste that can stop bleeding organs independent of clotting.