Women’s blood vessels AGE faster than men’s which increases their risk of heart diseases at a younger age, study claims Women aged 30 with high blood pressure ‘more likely to have heart disease’ This is because their blood vessels and arteries are less efficient at that age Authors of study say finding may reshape way doctors assess heart … Read more
FDA urges patients to keep taking contaminated blood pressure drugs despite cancer risk, amid global shortage Drugs containing valsartan, losartan and irbesartan are some of the most commonly prescribed medications for high blood pressure Some one in three Americans may need blood pressure medication to avoid heart attack and stroke Pills from nearly 30 manufacturers … Read more
Abbott reveals it has made a new coronavirus antibody test which ‘could screen 20 million by June’ By Reuters and Mary Kekatos Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 21:33 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 21:37 BST, 15 April 2020 Abbott Laboratories announced it has launched its third coronavirus test, this time a blood test … Read more
The end of daily finger-prick tests for diabetics? AI heart monitor ‘can detect dangerously low blood sugar levels’ Scientists used artificial intelligence to detect low blood sugar levels Patients wore electrocardiogram (ECG) monitors 24 hours a day for two weeks Researchers trained a computer system to spot normal and low sugar levels By Harry Howard … Read more
A Seattle ER doctor who had been tirelessly treating people dying of coronavirus became a patient of the infection himself. A Phoenix man went having from minor symptoms to relying on life support in a matter of days. Both men were under 60 and had been otherwise healthy before they found themselves life-threateningly ill with … Read more
US regulators have given emergency use permission for a device to filter coronavirus patients’ blood in an effort to combat the devastating effects of severe inflammation. Doctors believe that many of those who die of coronavirus die as a result of the so-called ‘cytokine storm’ – a deluge of inflammation meant to help fight the … Read more
Doctors at a Brooklyn hospitals are removing coronavirus patients’ blood from their bodies, rejunvenating it with oxygen, and returning it to the patients in an experimental bid to help those on ventilators. The procedure is known as ‘ECMO’ – extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. As critically ill coronavirus patients flood into their hospitals, doctors have noticed a … Read more
Blood, guts and junk food! Fascinating new book delves into the lives of fishermen on trawler boats Lamorna Ash recounts the months she spent living with Cornish fishermen A playwright in London, she lodged with a couple in the village of Newlyn Almost everyone she met in the fishing village has lost someone to the … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has rolled a test that would determine whether or not someone has been infected with coronavirus. This type of test, which is known as a serology test, looks for antibodies against the new virus in the blood. Health officials say the test could help scientists understand how … Read more
Paperboy, 17, with a vampire obsession murdered a 90-year-old woman, ripped out her heart and drank her blood in a bid to become immortal, new documentary reveals Matthew Hardman, then 17, carried out the grusome murder in Anglesey, Wales He broke into Mabel Leyshon’s bungalow, ripping out heart and drinking blood A Channel 5 documentary, The Kids … Read more