Women in the United States who followed a Mediterranean-style diet — heavy on fresh foods, fish, and olive oil — around the time of conception had lower risk of developing a pregnancy complication, results of a large new study suggest. The study included 7,798 women who had not given birth before. The group was geographically, […]

Atherosclerosis is a long-term arterial vessel wall disease characterized by the build-up of lipid-rich and inflamed plaques. It often goes undetected, but highly inflamed plaques disrupt and form a blood clot attached to the vessel wall adjacent to the flowing blood. This acute event (atherothrombosis) can lead to heart attack or stroke. Boston University investigators, […]

From $5 logo designs to websites like Canva to artificial intelligence is there still a future in graphic design? Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over the Design Industry? Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing the landscape of the design industry as we know it. Many creatives believe that it’s just the beginning of the end for designers, […]

A re-evaluation of cardiovascular risk management guidelines intended for use by rheumatologists may be warranted based on findings from a recently published population-based study of the risks for 12 different cardiovascular disease outcomes in patients with autoimmune diseases. “The notion that patients with rheumatic diseases are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases has been […]

Millions more patients across England are benefitting from easier access to their health records and medical services through the NHS App, as sign ups top 30 million – including seven million new sign ups in 2022. The app, which launched four years ago, was one of the most popular free health apps of 2022 – […]

MADRID (Reuters) -People traveling from China to Spain will be required to test negative for COVID-19 or prove they have been fully vaccinated against the disease, Spain’s top health official said on Friday. Earlier this month, China began dismantling the world’s strictest COVID regime of lockdowns and extensive testing in an abrupt change of policy. […]

dr Niklas Klümper, resident at the Clinic for Urology and working group leader at the Institute for Experimental Oncology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), was awarded the CE Alken Prize in recognition of his outstanding scientific uro-oncological work. The 30-year-old is investigating which patients with metastatic bladder cancer benefit from a new oncological form […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Pandemic restrictions that hampered the circulation of viruses other than COVID-19 could be behind the unseasonably early upsurge in respiratory infections in Europe this winter that the festive break could prolong, scientists say. Apart from COVID-19, regulations to curb movement and social interaction limited the transmission of viruses that typically cause most […]

A new research paper was published in Oncotarget’s Volume 13 on December 17, 2022, entitled, “Serum microRNAs as new criteria for referral to early palliative care services in treatment-naïve advanced cancer patients.” A major obstacle to the implementation of early palliative care (EPC) is the lack of objective criteria for referral to EPC. Circulating microRNAs […]

Savitha Bonthala, DO, MPH, a Houston, Texas–based physiatrist, had been offered an exciting position as medical director of a brain injury rehabilitation program. Prior to the offer, “I was in private practice and burned by a bad contract I signed right out of fellowship with a billing company because didn’t know how to read contracts […]