FDA New Warning For Statin Use In Pregnancy The FDA is requesting removal of its strongest warning against using cholesterol-lowering statin medicines in pregnant patients. Despite the change, most patients should stop statins once they learn they are pregnant. They have conducted a comprehensive review of all available data and make a change to the […]
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Dexamethasone and Remdesivir reduces post COVID Neurological Complications COVID-19 is associated with a range of multi-system complications including neurological disorders. Remdesivir is a repurposed antiviral medication that has shown broad antiviral action in vitro against emerging coronaviruses, including MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Remdesivir was shown to reduce the time to clinical improvement in a separate […]
COVID-19 Study Updates
A Dual Variant Booster with Beta More Effective vs Omicron than Current Shot According to a new study, a COVID-19 booster designed to target the Beta variant and the original COVID-19 strain generated a better immune response against several virus variants, including Omicron. The results are a good sign for plans for future shots targeting […]
COVID-19 Study Updates
New Omicron XE Subvariant Has the Potential to Spread For some time now, virologists have been observing how different variants of the coronavirus can merge to form new mutations if a patient is infected with different variants at the same time. This kind of recombination seems now to have happened with the Omicron variants BA.1 […]
COVID-19 Study Updates
Post-CABG Bleed Risk Climbs When Anticoagulants Added to Dual Antiplatelets Key Takeaways Among patients undergoing Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, those who received single-antiplatelet therapy with aspirin  (ASA) or dual-antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) with aspirin plus Clopidogrel showed no difference in risk for major bleeding or postoperative mortality. The risk of bleeding events was increased in patients receiving […]
Cardiology News
Researchers in Scotland have developed a risk calculator using a large electronic health records database that has shown a high reliability in predicting the risk of death for patients hospitalized for chronic occlusive pulmonary disease (COPD), providing another potential tool for improving post-discharge survival in these patients. In a study published online in the journal Pharmacological Research, Pierpalo […]
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• Why is atrial fibrillation (AF) common in older patients? Are stroke risk factors the same in older patients compared with younger patients?    AF is very common in the older population. Population studies have shown that 80% of all AF occurs in patients aged 65 years or older. These patients have multiple […]
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Key Takeaways : Use of Metformin likely reduces the risk for Alzheimer’s disease  (AD) in the general population. Expression of a mitochondrial complex I–related gene, NDUFA2, reduced AD risk and was associated with less cognitive decline in the brain. Mitochondrial function and the NDUFA2 gene are likely mechanisms of action in dementia protection. Why This Matters? Dementia […]
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Epidemiologic Data Suggest Ceramide Link To CVD Risk Key Takeaways In American Indians (Native Americans) with type 2 diabetes , higher plasma levels of ceramide-16 (ceramide with acylated palmitic acid) associated with a higher rate of cardiovascular disease events, especially CVD events associated with atherosclerosis. The results also suggested other possible associations between plasma levels […]
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