A study conducted by a team of researchers at LSU Health New Orleans has shown for the first time that chronic exposure to inhaled nicotine alone increases blood pressure (hypertension), in both the body’s general circulation and in the lungs that can lead to pulmonary hypertension. The study also found...
Starting your nursing career with a reputed nursing home will be quite beneficial for you. There are severed training programs, with a duration of 1 to 2 years, completing which you can explore Nursing Career Opportunities in New York and start working at the nursing home. You can work as a...
The wife, son, daughter, and a neighbor of a Westchester County man who tested positive for the novel coronavirus have also contracted the virus, according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In a press briefing held later on Wednesday, he announced five additional cases in a family that had contact...
Both in catching and in spreading it
The first case of the novel coronavirus in North Carolina has ties to a nursing home in Washington State that is currently at the center of a deadly outbreak of COVID-19.
The North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health confirmed the presumptive positive finding but...
Diffuse gliomas are a common form of brain cancer. They develop in the central nervous system and affect glial cells in the brain.
Doctors find these tumors notoriously difficult to treat, and survival rates are low, with only 5% of people surviving for 5 years or more.
There is an undeniable gap...
Dementia — an umbrella term that encompasses various conditions involving cognitive impairment, the most common of which is Alzheimer’s — affects around 50 million people worldwide, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
There is currently no cure for dementia, and researchers are interested in pinpointing the many possible...
The pharmaceutical company Eisai has voluntarily withdrawn lorcaserin (Belviq, Belviq XR) from the market.
This decision came following a warning from the FDA that Belviq had not passed a recent safety trial, and that there was a possibility that the drug could increase a person’s risk of cancer.
Soon after having issued...
The novel coronavirus that has infected thousands of people across the world may have mutated at least once — meaning there may be two different types of the virus causing illnesses, a new
study conducted by Chinese scientists suggests. Scientists with Peking University’s School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur...
Health officials are urging anyone who feels ill to isolate and stay home as cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spread in the U.S., but what about those who already require care
assistance or are too young to care for themselves? For those patients and their caretakers, the guidance may...
The contributions offered by nurses can never be underestimated. Nurses care for their patients, and they are one of the main reasons why the healthcare industry is booming day-by-day. They look after the physical and mental health of every patient that they are assigned to. They even go out of...
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