“Patients are in desperate need of an effective treatment, and we are doing everything we can to help find that treatment,” one scientist explained. “The greatest reward would be to see a safe and effective treatment for people who currently have very few options.”
When heart patients are diagnosed with severe AS, how quickly do they need to undergo TAVR? That was the focus of a new analysis published in Open Heart.
Accessing cardiology data for research or population health initiatives is still quite difficult in Europe. Could this new project help reverse that trend?
New research findings could help explain the “obesity paradox,” wherein being overweight is linked to both improved outcomes in certain diseases and increased mortality rates in others.
Cannabis use is on the rise throughout the United States, but it is not as harmless as some people may believe. An in-depth analysis out of Stanford explored the many cardiovascular risks associated with regular cannabis use.
Cardiologists believe this is the first time this exact complication has been reported. Even patients who present with no known risk factors, they said, should receive regular follow-up care to ensure such incidents do not go untreated.
The patient, who was primarily eating meat, cheese and entire sticks of butter, said the yellow nodules did not hurt in any way. His cholesterol level exceeded 1000 mg/dL at the time of treatment.
This new information on the pathogenesis of both conditions could be useful for the development of interventions targeted at slowing cognitive decline.
The new Department of Imaging Sciences will be spearheaded by Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, PhD, a physicist, biomedical engineer, neuroscience researcher and inventor.
