Category: 6. Health

Vitamin D might help people with heart disease avoid a heart…

Biliary atresia (BA) represents one of the leading causes of pediatric liver failure, often requiring surgical intervention or transplantation in early infancy. Although traditionally viewed as an isolated disease, emerging evidence…

Exercise has big benefits for the brain, but the exact reasons why have been mysterious. Now, new studies suggest that exercised muscles release brain-boosting substances into the blood — and at least in lab animals, that boost can be…

With lung cancer being the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, it’s critical to raise awareness of screening guidelines and adherence.

A session held at the 16^th Annual Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+)…

It is critical for oncology nurses, advanced practitioners, and navigators to understand which biomarker tests should be performed for patients with different types of lung cancer, as this can inform testing and treatment options.

A session at the…

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified an early step in a cellular process that leads to inflammation in fat cells and may result in Type 2 diabetes in people with obesity.

The findings, published Oct. 28 in the Journal of Clinical…

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Among 12,069 elderly patients with sepsis (mean [SD] age, 77.0 [7.6] years; 6105 [50.6%] women) admitted to the ICU, 1976 (16.4%) had hypokalemia (serum potassium levels < 3.5 mmol/L), 8834 (73.2%) had normokalemia (serum potassium levels…