The first evidence that exceeding the World Health Organization (WHO) ozone limit is associated with substantial increases in hospital admissions for heart attack, heart failure and stroke is published today in European Heart Journal, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).Even ozone levels below the WHO maximum were linked to worsening health. “During […]
Il Racism, xenophobia and discrimination have a fundamental influence on health globally, but have so far been overlooked by researchers, policymakers and health professionals, suggests a series of four papers published on December 8 at The Lancet.The study authors urge health professionals to consider these issues as public health priorities. Racism, xenophobia and discrimination are […]
Health, not age, drives increased pregnancy complications Mothers are getting older, but that’s not why pregnancies are riskier The increased rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as hypertensive disorders, preterm birth, and low birth weight, over the past 10 years is largely attributed to a person’s health status of a person before becoming pregnant, rather […]
Findings People previously hospitalized for pneumonia have a um _-53 % higher incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia than the general population, a population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom found. The effect was observed in all age groups, not only in the elderly. The highest risk was within 1 year after hospitalization. Why this matters […]
A New retrospective analysis of data from patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease (MOGAD) suggests that immunotherapy is associated with a lower risk of recurrence. However, the authors note that many MOGAD patients never experience a recurrence and that it is difficult to identify the patients who get a recurrence. MOGAD can cause optic […]
Within the framework of World Prematurity Day, which is commemorated every November 17, the “Prematurity Week” is also taken, in 2022 from the 14th to the 17th of the same month to raise awareness about the care of these children and their families. This year the theme is “The embrace of the family, a […]
Background Previous studies have shown that smoking increases cancer-specific and all-cause mortality in women with breast cancer. However, the benefits of smoking cessation in women with breast cancer are controversial. Insight Among women with breast cancer, smokers had a 22%-25% higher risk of cancer-specific mortality or mortality compared to non-smokers.All-cause mortality. This result corresponds in […]
Ministry of Health Circular of Indications for use of the VidPrevtyn Beta (Sanofi) vaccine as part of the anti-Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 vaccination campaign The Technical Scientific Commission of AIFA, in the session of , accepting the opinion expressed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), approved the indication of use of the VidPrevtyn Beta vaccine (Sanofi), as a […]
In Japan, researchers have created viable mice with two biological fathers. The team led by Katsuhiko Hayashi from the University of Osaka converted skin cells from male mice into egg cells in the laboratory in several steps, , as the researchers write in the journal Nature. These eggs were fertilized with sperm from other male […]
La Clinical definition of Myocardial infarction involves the presence of acute myocardial injury detected by abnormal cardiac biomarkers in the context of evidence of acute myocardial ischemia (1). Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and T (cTnT) are components of the contractile apparatus of myocardial cells and are expressed almost exclusively in the heart. cTnI and cTnT […]