Month: July 2022

In this video, Juan Crestanello, MD, Department Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery in Rochester, MN, discusses and reviews the article, “Does Mitral Valve Calcium in Patients Undergoing Mitral Valve Replacement Portend Worse Survival?” Get all the information about this procedure here: https://mayocl.in/3LUH1lx Visit Mayo Clinic: https://mayocl.in/2COVmlm Like Mayo Clinic on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MayoClinic Follow Mayo Clinic on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mayoclinic/ Follow
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While time management and efficiency are key for maximizing productivity, learning how to maintain intense focus for prolonged periods of time is equally important. Start by using the 80/20 Rule. Find the 20% of elements in your life that are leading to 80% of the distractions. Spend five minutes and list out 20 of your
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Authorities have identified Burkholderia pseudomallei in U.S. environmental samples “for the first time.” The bacteria can cause the infectious disease known as melioidosis or Whitmore’s disease. Health officials tested samples after two “unrelated individuals” in the Gulf Coast region of the southern U.S. fell ill with melioidosis on two separate occasions — one in July 2020 and
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Bacteria and other unicellular organisms developed sophisticated ways to actively navigate their way, despite being comparably simple structures. To reveal these mechanisms, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) used oil droplets as a model for biological microswimmers. Corinna Maass, group leader at the MPI-DS and Associate Professor at the University
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By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — While the herpes virus that causes lip sores is common today, it has been difficult for scientists to find traces of it among ancient remains. Now, researchers report they have uncovered and sequenced four ancient herpes virus genomes for the first time.
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Wearable devices like a fertility tracker can help detect COVID-19 as early as two days before the onset of symptoms, a new study has shown. For their research, scientists used an AVA fertility tracker, which measures respiratory rate, heart rate, heart rate variability, wrist-skin temperature and blood flow at night. The bracelet is commercially available and
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Alzheimer’s disease can begin almost imperceptibly, often masquerading in the early months or years as forgetfulness that is common in older age. What causes the disease remains largely a mystery. But researchers at Tufts University and the University of Oxford, using a three-dimensional human tissue culture model mimicking the brain, have shown that varicella zoster
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The new air-powered hand provides a lightweight, low-maintenance and easy-to-use body-powered prosthetic option particularly well suited for children and those in low and middle-income countries. A revolutionary new hand prosthesis powered and controlled by the user’s breathing has been developed by researchers at the University of Oxford. The simple lightweight device offers an alternative to
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Certain monkeypox symptoms seen now are rather different from the ones reported during previous outbreaks in African regions, a new study has found. Researchers are urging clinicians to be aware of these symptoms as well. For their paper, published Thursday in The British Medical Journal (BMJ), the researchers looked at 197 patients with confirmed monkeypox infections
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Hypertension more than doubles the risk of hospitalization related to Omicron infection, even in people who are fully vaccinated and boosted, according to a new study led by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. The findings are published in the journal Hypertension. The risk is especially widespread given that nearly 1 out of
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Located between and above your eyebrows, the frontal sinuses develop in shapes that are as unique to each person as a fingerprint. Since 1925, they’ve been used by forensic anthropologists to help identify human remains when dental or other medical records were missing. Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have found the development of
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