Do ambulatory patients who present in office settings with hypertensive urgency - systolic blood pressure (BP) at least 180mm HG and diastolic BP at least 110 mm Hg - do better when they are referred to the hospital or when they have their BP managed in an outpatient setting?
Krishna K. Patel, M.D., of the Cleveland Clinic, and coauthors examined that question in a new study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.
Larger hematoma size and location were risk factors associated with dementia after an intracerebral hemorrhage when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) accounts for about 15 percent of all strokes and about 50 percent of stroke-related death and disability worldwide. Progressive cognitive decline is frequent after ICH but there is limited understanding of its risk factors.
Oscar-winning Actress Jennifer Lawrence made headlines last year after penning an essay about the gender wage gap in Hollywood. Actress Robin Wright, star of the hit TV show "House of Cards" recently spoke out about demanding to be paid the same as her co-star on the series, actor Kevin Spacey. Actor Chris Evans, star of the popular "Captain America" film franchise, even discussed Hollywood's gender wage gap during his most recent publicity tour.
One in four patients with COPD referred for exercise rehabilitation are frail, but nevertheless can respond favourably to rehabilitation and their frailty can be reversed, finds a new study led by King's College London and Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. The findings have wider implications for treating frailty, which affects one in ten over-65s, where adapting other rehabilitation programmes could potentially benefit more patients.
As predicted, the star of the 2016 Tony Awards was “Hamilton,” which took home 11 trophies.
Compared with the 2016 Academy Awards, the 2016 Tony Awards was far more reflective of our multiracial society. Out of 40 acting nominees in plays and musicals, 14 – 35 percent – were people of color. And that didn’t include several nonwhite nominees for many behind-the-scenes awards.
An ultrathin film that is both transparent and highly conductive to electric current has been produced by a cheap and simple method devised by an international team of nanomaterials researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Korea University.
The film -- actually a mat of tangled nanofiber, electroplated to form a "self-junctioned copper nano-chicken wire" -- is also bendable and stretchable, offering potential applications in roll-up touchscreen displays, wearable electronics, flexible solar cells and electronic skin.
As the UEFA European Championship kicks off in France, the memory of last November’s terrorist attacks on the Stade de France and other venues across Paris looms large. French authorities will be examining the previous attacks – including the January 2015 shootings at Charlie Hebdo – to secure the tournament against any terrorist threat.
New Data Show On-Demand, Mealtime Insulin Delivery System Enabled More than 50 Percent of Patients to Report Improved Dose Compliance
Innovative, In-Development Patch Allows Simple and Discreet Dosing and Greater Patient Satisfaction
FARMINGTON, CT, June 11, 2016 - The combination of type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease can be deadly.
New research from a global study led by a physician from UConn Health has found that patients with Type 2 diabetes admitted into the hospital for congestive heart failure face a one in four chance of dying over the next 18 months.
DENVER - Since the 1980s, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) - in which positive pressure is pushed through the nasal airways to help users breathe while sleeping - has been by far the most widely used treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). With more than 18 million people experiencing OSA, a number expected to rise, new results from a Penn case study of a new device implanted in the chest called hypoglossal nerve stimulation (HGNS) offers promise for patients with moderate to severe OSA who cannot tolerate CPAP.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT; head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; president & CEO: Hiroo Unoura), Fujitsu Limited (Fujitsu; head office: Minato -ku, Tokyo; president & CEO: Tatsuya Tanaka), and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT; head office: Koganei city, Tokyo; president: Masao Sakauchi) have cooperatively developed the world's-first compact terahertz wireless transceiver using the 300-GHz band and experimentally demonstrated that it can transmit data at transmission rate of 40 gigabits per second through multiplex transmission
A high percentage of children, teens and young adults with migraines appear to have mild deficiencies in vitamin D, riboflavin and coenzyme Q10 -- a vitamin-like substance found in every cell of the body that is used to produce energy for cell growth and maintenance.
These deficiencies may be involved in patients who experience migraines, but that is unclear based on existing studies.
Nice, France - 10 June 2016: A study in nearly three million motor vehicle accident victims has found that atrial fibrillation is associated with a higher risk of death. The research was presented today at CARDIOSTIM - EHRA EUROPACE 2016 by Dr Abhishek Deshmukh, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, US.1
"Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm disorder and incidence is rising," said Dr Deshmukh. "Many of these patients are on anticoagulants to lower their stroke risk but these drugs increase the chance of bleeding."
Gas bubbles in a glass of champagne, thin films rupturing into tiny liquid droplets, blood flowing through a pumping heart and crashing ocean waves -- although seemingly unrelated, these phenomena have something in common: they can all be mathematically modeled as interface dynamics coupled to the Navier-Stokes equations, a set of equations that predict how fluids flow.
An Australian study has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the tools used by medical professionals to assess suicide risk in mental health patients, prompting calls for a review of the allocation of resources based on the assessments.
The meta-analysis, led by clinical psychiatrist and Conjoint Professor Matthew Large from UNSW Australia's School of Psychiatry, has been published in the PLOS ONE journal.