Greater awareness and advances in treatment have greatly improved survival rates following heart attack. With more survivors, however, has come the challenge of managing long-term impacts on heart function, especially chronic ...
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Medicines that are based on mRNAs and proteins—particularly vaccines and antibodies—are time-intensive and costly to make. The challenge is in producing the necessary mRNAs and proteins in large enough amounts at low ...
Feb 22, 2023
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News media reports of interpersonal firearm violence on television and in print publications are generally presented through an episodic lens that focuses on the individual event, as opposed to one that frames the incident ...
Jan 10, 2023
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A device known as the BASHIR Endovascular Catheter (THROMBOLEX, Inc.) significantly reduces the size of blood clots lodged in the pulmonary arteries, leading to improvement in heart function in patients with pulmonary embolism, ...
Sep 19, 2022
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For women with pulmonary hypertension, a condition in which blood flow from the heart to the lungs is under dangerously high pressure, pregnancy is risky. In fact, it is often life-threatening, with maternal-fetal mortality ...
Aug 23, 2022
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Previous work by researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University into the recent surge in firearm violence across Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic found that it was strongly associated with ...
Apr 19, 2022
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Since March 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has infected more than 460 million people worldwide. The vast majority of people who recover from infection demonstrate long-lasting ...
Mar 29, 2022
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Life expectancy for individuals with Down syndrome has grown in recent decades, thanks in large part to progress in patient care and treatment. But with survival into the fifth and sixth decades of life now possible, increasing ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Under stress, the human heart struggles to pump blood efficiently through the body. Over time, as the heart overexerts itself trying to make up for this lost efficiency, harmful changes take place. The most worrisome of these ...
Mar 15, 2022
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Researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have discovered that the Hippo signaling effector YAP1 is a master regulator of Nodal signaling in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for a process essential ...
Feb 10, 2022
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