A recent trend on social media has revived a curious technique from the late 1970s called cough CPR. A post claims that this method can help people, if they are alone, to survive a heart attack by coughing rhythmically to ...
Dec 18, 2024
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St John's wort is an herbal supplement that has been used for centuries to boost mood. Even today, many people use it as a natural treatment for mild to moderate depression. St John's wort contains several active compounds, ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Two researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) have discovered a gene variant found in high-altitude Andean populations that they believe could be a new biomarker for predicting the severity ...
Dec 13, 2024
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A large study found that greater exposure to long-term air pollution was linked with increased risks for blood clots that can occur in deep veins, which, if untreated, can block blood flow and cause serious complications, ...
Dec 12, 2024
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New AI software can read the brain scans of patients who have had a stroke to more accurately pinpoint when it happened and help doctors work out whether it can be successfully treated.
Dec 6, 2024
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Women who have had a stroke may be less likely than men to take medications to prevent a second stroke, with Mexican American women reporting the highest rates of nonadherence, according to research published in the Journal ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Certain hormone replacement therapy (HRT) tablets containing both estrogen and progestogen are associated with a higher risk of heart disease and rare but serious blood clots known as venous thromboembolism (VTE) in women ...
Nov 27, 2024
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A new thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows the effectiveness of flexible parametric survival models in modeling multiple time-scales, providing a robust tool for complex time-to-event data analysis. The models were tested ...
Nov 25, 2024
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Research conducted across 12 hospitals in China has discovered that combining linear ablation with ethanol infusion via the vein of Marshall (EIVOM) alongside pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) significantly improves sinus rhythm ...
In the not-so-distant past, doctors treated strokes in an after-the-fact way. A stroke did its damage, and then—if the patient survived—a rehabilitation team stepped in to address the stroke's effects.
Nov 21, 2024
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