Tag Archives: LifeSaving

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.  The Washington Post Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl  The New York Times Unsafe abortions and no antenatal care: aid cuts hit women hardest in one of Africa’s poorest countries  The Guardian How African communities are responding to the aid cuts  Devex Let’s spend $12B Trump has left to use before year-end to …

Singer Florence Welch has revealed she underwent life-saving emergency surgery after experiencing an ectopic pregnancy in August 2023. The Grammy nominee told the Guardian she was unknowingly suffering serious internal bleeding while performing on stage at a festival, telling the paper her pregnancy was “the closest I came to death”. She was diagnosed with a ruptured fallopian tube after suffering …

Simplified representation of a uterine cancer cell. Credit: Svenja Kübler The findings challenge long-standing assumptions about therapy-related cancers. They also highlight how drug actions can substitute for genetic changes in tumor development. An international team of researchers, including Prof. Kirsten Kübler from the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and collaborators at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, …

Dr. Karen Zaghiyan, a prominent colorectal surgeon at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, recently shared vital advice on bowel cancer in a widely viewed Instagram video. She offers straightforward guidance for anyone concerned about or diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Dr. Zaghiyan stresses the life-saving importance of early screening, particularly colonoscopies, and urges patients to seek second opinions to ensure accurate diagnoses. …

A medical phenomenon known as Cuomo’s Paradox is challenging conventional wisdom about disease and survival. Named for the biomedical scientist Raphael E Cuomo, it describes the counterintuitive finding where a factor, such as alcohol consumption, high cholesterol, or obesity, which increases someone’s risk of getting a deadly disease, may actually be associated with better survival after someone is diagnosed. Obesity, …

How Physics Revealed a Life-Saving Blood Pressure Fix  SciTechDaily Cambridge study reveals critical flaw in blood pressure readings — and how to fix it  Medical Economics Why your blood pressure reading might be wrong  Earth.com Study Finds Cuff-Based Blood Pressure Devices Often Inaccurate Due to Factors Like Arterial Stiffness and Arm Size  geneonline.com Major Flaw In Blood Pressure Tests Could Be Giving Millions The …

The Trump administration has suspended $584m in federal grants for the University of California, Los Angeles, nearly double the amount that was previously thought, the school’s chancellor announced on Wednesday. UCLA is the first public university whose federal grants have been targeted by the administration over allegations of civil rights violations related to antisemitism and affirmative action. The Trump administration …

People rely on family in times of crisis. But what if you’re asking for help from someone you’ve never shown up for? This teen’s mother abandoned him at birth. So he was surprised when, after 14 years of silence, she suddenly reached out, claiming she wanted to reconnect. He was skeptical—and rightfully so. Because it turned out she wasn’t interested …

AI Turns Common Heart Test Into a Life-Saving Screening Tool  SciTechDaily AI tech detects hidden heart disease doctors often miss  Fox News AI System Shows Consistent Accuracy in Echocardiogram Interpretation: JAMA  Medical Dialogues Groundbreaking AI tool could save lives from sudden cardiac arrest  The Brighter Side of News AI-Enhanced ECG Expands Access, Reduces Costs for Patients  AJMC Source link

Surgeons at Duke University have resuscitated a ‘dead’ heart on the operating table after it stopped beating for more than five minutes. The organ was later transplanted into the chest of a three-month-old child, saving their life. The infant with the donor heart continued to show normal cardiac function and no signs of organ rejection at six months of age, …