People are curious about heart health — and for good reason. Heart disease remains the leading killer of men and women in the U.S. — each year, around 695,000 people die from cardiovascular conditions, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For American Heart Month, Dr. Martha Gulati, …
Read More »Promising new therapeutic approach for treating metastatic pancreatic cancer
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A research paper published in Nature Cancer details new insights into the role of efferocytosis—the burying of dead cells—in pancreatic cancer that spreads to the liver. Liver metastasis occurs in 40–50% of people with pancreatic ductal adenosarcoma (PDAC), and there are currently no effective therapies to …
Read More »What is Alaskapox? Recent death brings attention to virus seen in small animals
This image provided by the Alaska Department of Health shows several Alaskapox lesions. “A” is a lesion about 10 days after symptom onset, and “B” is the same lesion two days later. “C” is a lesion about 5 days after symptom onset, about 1.2 cm across. “D” is a lesion …
Read More »New research shows minimally invasive therapy is effective in treating chronic subdural hematoma
Credit: Wikimedia Commons The Society of Neurolnterventional Surgery (SNIS) is acknowledging middle meningeal artery embolization (MMAE) as a beneficial adjunctive treatment for chronic subdural hematoma in light of new research. The minimally invasive MMAE procedure significantly reduced the failure rates of traditional surgical and non-surgical management strategies without an increased …
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