CHLA Heart Institute Co-Director Vaughn Starnes, MD, shares his thoughts on the Neonatal Ross Heart Procedure—and the team’s newest data on patient outcomes. This is important news to share for February's American Heart Month.
While the aftermath of an undersea volcanic eruption and the following tsunami garner much attention as the waves crash around inhabited islands, an expert at West Virginia University says the combination of those hard to predict eruptions and climate change will eventually erase island nations and their cultures in the Pacific and western Indian oceans.
Using drugs in synergistic combinations may clear infections more efficiently and slow the acquisition of drug resistance. Bree Aldridge of Tufts University School of Medicine explains how researchers find the right drug cocktails, slowing AMR, and the role artificial intelligence can have in both.
Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, addresses the issue of how the U.S. has coped with the pandemic
Maryland Smith finance professor and former FTC economist David Kass explains why aggressive antitrust enforcement will slow Microsoft’s $75 billion move to solidify its position in the development of the "metaverse."
Your community service can make all the difference for the people around you. But what does it do for you? Two Penn State Health providers talk about what volunteer work does for them and how it can help you.
University of Miami experts provide insights on the powerful eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano, an event geologists are calling the biggest recorded anywhere in the world in more than three decades.
Participation in virtual sports gaming has grown exponentially in the last couple of years as young athletes looked for an escape after their physical sports were sidelined during the pandemic. Henry Ford family and sports medicine physician Nithin Natwa talks about risks and benefits from E-sports and video gaming.
As part of the BPD Collaborative, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is teaming up to optimize care for babies with chronic lung disease, providing hope for babies with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), including those with severe disease.
“Twenty years ago, many of these babies weren’t even surviving, but we’ve seen so much advancement since then,” she says.
There's no cure for asthma, and for some people, asthma is a minor nuisance. For others, it can interfere with daily activities and may lead to life-threatening asthma attacks. Having good day-to-day control of asthma is key to keeping symptoms at bay and preventing asthma attack, says John Costello, M.D., a pulmonologist at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London.
Michael Lin, MD, MPH, an infectious disease specialist, explains how risky some activities are now as the highly transmissible omicron variant surges through Chicago and the rest of the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing challenges to a Biden administration vaccine mandate that requires eligible employees in Medicare or Medicaid-funded facilities to get vaccinated or receive an exemption.
Following Medicare’s decision today about paying for a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment only in limited circumstances, Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH, a highly respected memory and geriatric medicine specialist at Cedars-Sinai, is available to comment.
As the highly contagious omicron variant surges COVID-19 cases to record highs, some are wondering if they should intentionally get the virus in the hope of developing immunity.
John Sargent, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and director and vice chair of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Tufts Children’s Hospital, explains what’s behind the youth mental health crisis and what parents need to know.
In ‘Public Health Emergencies: Case Studies, Competencies, and Essential Services of Public Health,’ published this month by Springer Publishing, Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, writes that the pandemic offers the public – and public health specialists – ample lessons learned for the next public health crisis.
A Florida State University technology developed to treat an incurable eye condition has proven so effective in clinical trials that investors have funded a third portion of Series A financing for Trefoil Therapeutics to support the further creation of treatments for corneal disease.
Over the course of more than three decades studying sickle cell disease and caring for patients, Thomas Coates, MD, has learned an important lesson: listen to the mothers. It is their detailed accounts of their children’s pain that inspired his current research focus.
El asma es una afección en la que las vías respiratorias se estrechan e hinchan y puede haber tanto más mucosidad como otros síntomas. Aunque el asma también afecta a los adultos, es la enfermedad más frecuente en los niños. En el mundo, más de 262 millones de personas sufren de asma y más de 461 000 han muerto debido a esta afección, según informa la Organización Mundial de la Salud.
Is getting healthier and more active one of your New Year's resolutions? The American Chiropractic Association shares simple strategies that can help you make the transition from a body at rest to a body in motion.
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and is a leading cause of cancer-related death in men and women in the United States according to the American Cancer Society. Although cigarette smoking is the main cause of lung cancer and quitting would prevent a large number of lung cancer cases, it wouldn't prevent all of them.
RUSH is among the nation’s leading hospitals for identifying, treating and protecting against COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic and with onset of the highly contagious omicron variant, RUSH experts are able to speak to all aspects of this global battle – from the clinical frontlines to those most at risk in Chicago’s neighborhoods, in testing, efficacy of treatment and trends in the spread of the virus.
Zahn, a professor of pediatrics and the director of the Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program in the Smidt Heart Institute, was the principal investigator for the multicenter clinical trial which led to the FDA's approval today. He says the new device will allow interventional cardiologists to treat more patients.
Clinical psychologist Aaron Fobian, Ph.D., has developed a therapy for this debilitating condition that she is now testing in a major NIH-sponsored clinical trial.
For some, attending holiday events with alcohol present, being around the people with whom they used to drink or the smell of their favorite drink can be hard to resist, especially for those with alcohol use disorder.
Thirumalai “Venky” Venkatesan is an internationally noted leader in advanced technology innovation. As the director for the Center for Quantum Research and Technology at the University of Oklahoma, he praises the Sooner State for developing a completely new frontier in terms of economic growth. "We are investing in people who can transform both our technology and economic landscape,” he says.
Since the pandemic gained momentum, the demands on nurses have never been greater. Larger patient to staff ratios, nurses contracting the virus themselves, and workforce burnout exacerbated an already existing nursing shortage.
Dr. Emily Godfrey is an OB-GYN at the UW School of Medicine. She has done research on the demand for abortion pills in different states.
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Rutgers University’s experts in health care, environmental science and engineering, education, labor and business discuss what we have learned since the onset of COVID-19 and what we might expect in the future.
Aaron Gale, an expert in world religions working at West Virginia University, is available to talk about the many holidays celebrated around the world during December.
os especialistas da Mayo Clinic afirmam que, independentemente da variante, a prevenção da infecção funciona. As vacinas reduzem e previnem a hospitalização e morte de acordo com o conhecimento atual.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا- يقول خبراء مايو كلينك، بغض النظر عن المتحور، فإن الوقاية من العدوى تجدي نفعًا. وتقلل اللقاحات من دخول المستشفى والوفاة وتقي منهما بناءً على المعرفة الحالية. إذا كنتَ قادرًا على التطعيم أو مؤهلًا للحصول على جرعة معززة، فقم بذلك الآن.
Los expertos de Mayo Clinic dicen que, independientemente de la variante, la prevención de la infección funciona. Las vacunas reducen y previenen los casos de hospitalización y muerte, según lo que se sabe hasta ahora. Si reúnes las condiciones para vacunarte o recibir un refuerzo, hazlo ahora.
Maryland Smith’s David Kass, who blogs about Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway and the stock market, narrows his semi-annual stocks-to-watch list “amid rising uncertainties.”
Special foods are among the pleasures of holiday celebrations. On the negative side, for people with digestive diseases or those who overindulge, holiday feasting can quickly produce the food version of a hangover. James East, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London, explains why this sometimes happens and how we can enjoy the menu while also making holidays happy for our digestive systems.
Argonne scientists Lindsey Bleem and Clarence Chang talk about what it’s like to look for signals from the early universe from the South Pole Telescope.
ASU News enlisted the state’s climatologist and a tourism expert to discuss this year’s cause and effects of snow, or lack thereof, and the impacts to our water supply and economy.
Mayo Clinic experts say, regardless of the variant, prevention of infection works. The vaccines reduce and prevent hospitalization and death based on current knowledge. If a person can get vaccinated or is eligible for a booster, do it now.
But what about these variants? Why do they show up, and how? Here is what Mayo Clinic experts are saying:
Pediatric ophthalmologist with Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego Health explains why infantile cataracts are more common — and problematic — than most people realize.
A baby’s first year is full of special milestones, including the first time eating solid foods. At around 6 months, most babies can transition to food other than breast milk or formula, but some babies with special needs may not show signs of readiness at that age.
Thinking beyond the bounds of toy-related gender stereotypes can help kids get the broadest possible range of benefits out of their gifts this holiday season.
In a new book, “Why Privacy Matters,” one of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, Neil Richards, the Koch Distinguished Professor in Law and co-director of the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University in St. Louis, argues privacy is not dead, but up for grabs.
Fatigue, or constant feeling of tiredness, is very common in people with cancer and can affect a patient physically, emotionally and mentally. Andrew Kass, RN, MSN, AGNP-C, AOCNP, advanced practice nurse at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center together with RWJBarnabas Health, shares more about the signs and symptoms of cancer related fatigue, encourages patients to work with their cancer care team and provides tips on how to better manage fatigue.
As the first cases of flu are reported in Los Angeles this season, public health experts are urging anyone who isn't already vaccinated to get the flu shot. It's the best protection against the flu, which could pummel the U.S. this winter after nearly disappearing last year.