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Migrating birds have stowaway passengers: invasive ticks could spread novel diseases around the world
Ticks have always travelled on migrating birds — but the rising temperatures of the climate crisis mean they may now survive at their destination, and so could the pathogens they carry Ticks travel ...
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Finerenone, serum potassium, and clinical outcomes in heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction
In patients with heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction, finerenone, a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, resulted in more frequent hyperkalemia and less ...
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Partial cardiac denervation to prevent postoperative atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting
This randomized clinical trial found that partial cardiac denervation was an effective procedure to reduce the occurrence of postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after isolated coronary artery ...
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Kidney outcomes in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy
In this retrospective cohort study, decline in kidney function was frequent in patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and was consistently associated with an increased risk of ...
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Finerenone in women and men with heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction
In the Finerenone Trial to Investigate Efficacy and Safety Superior to Placebo in Patients with Heart Failure (FINEARTS-HF), finerenone reduced the risk of the primary end point similarly in women and ...
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Hormone therapy reshapes the skeleton in transgender individuals who previously blocked puberty
Skeletal size may be altered by gender-affirming hormone therapy only if puberty has also been suppressed during adolescence, according to research presented at the 62nd Annual European Society for ...
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Scientists transform blood into regenerative materials, paving the way for personalized, blood-based, 3D-printed implants
Scientists have created a new ‘biocooperative’ material based on blood, which has shown to successfully repair bones, paving ...
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New study finds air pollution increases inflammation primarily in patients with heart disease
New study by heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that patients with heart disease, specifically ...
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Chang’e-6 basalts offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Basalt samples returned by the Chang’e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago ...
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Cottrell Scholar Award for Tova Holmes
Dr. Tova Holmes from the University of Tennessee has been honored with the prestigious Cottrell Scholar Award. This accolade ...
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HKUMed forecasts an ongoing depression burden through 2032 Annual average cost of care expected to be over HK$2.5 billion
The first depression health economic modelling study, led by Professor Shirley Li Xue, from the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the ...
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Heart failure in zero gravity— external constraint and cardiac hemodynamics
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