Diagnosis of high blood pressure is made by measuring it, over a number of clinic visits, via a sphygmomamometer – the familiar upper-arm cuff device. An isolated high reading is not taken – rather, diagnosis can be made after measurement on at…
Diagnosis of high blood pressure is made by measuring it, over a number of clinic visits, via a sphygmomamometer – the familiar upper-arm cuff device. An isolated high reading is not taken – rather, diagnosis can be made after measurement on at…
Below is a list of possible complications that can be caused by badly controlled diabetes: Eye complications – glaucoma, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, and some others. Foot complications – neuropathy, ulcers, and sometimes gangrene which may require that the foot be amputated Skin…
High blood pressure leading to a diagnosis of hypertension will occur only when readings stay above normal all of the time. Having high blood pressure for a short amount of time is normal. Blood pressure has a natural variation – it lowers…
According to recent estimates, asthma affects 300 million people in the world and more than 22 million in the United States. Although people of all ages suffer from the disease, it most often starts in childhood, currently affecting 6 million children in…
A study of 153 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) showed that only about 4% had persistently abnormal chest x-rays at a median of 75 days after diagnosis, although many continued to have fatigue. The findings were published in the Annals of the…
Most people who catch and recover from COVID-19 are likely to be immune for several months afterwards, a study of more than 20,000 health-care workers in the United Kingdom has found. The study — called SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) —…
A vaccine against a type of polio that is spreading in the Southern Hemisphere is expected to receive emergency approval before the end of the year. If it does, it will be the first time the World Health Organization has steered an…
An artificial intelligence (AI) network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of biology’s grandest challenges — determining a protein’s 3D shape from its amino-acid sequence. DeepMind’s program, called AlphaFold, outperformed around 100 other teams…
After a flurry of positive results from clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines, developers are now seeking ‘emergency use’ approvals, which could see these immunizations deployed in potentially tens of millions of people. But scientists are concerned that this kind of early deployment…
