Healthcare News

A Story Of Hope! Nurse Practitioner Overcomes Breast Cancer

October 20th, 2015 was the day my life changed forever. I was going through my nightly routine and had a slight itch on my back. I reached around to scratch my back and my arm felt something odd in my left breast. As a family nurse practitioner I’m keenly aware of our propensity to over diagnose ourselves; sometimes too much knowledge is a curse. In any case, upon further examination, I definitely..(Read More)

ICU Nurse Co-Founds First Charitable Organization For Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis, The Rare Disease That Affects Her Own Daughter

Louisville, Kentucky, ICU nurse Emily Ventura is mother to Cedar, a seven-year-old with a rare and life-threatening disease called progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC). When Cedar was diagnosed as an infant, Emily searched for information about PFIC and for a chance to connect with other parents, but there was little available. So, she along with two other moms she met online, Tara..(Read More)

Researchers Identify Focus Points To Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths

A new study identifies specific locations where medication and harm reduction services for people with opioid use disorder should be available in order to have the greatest impact on reducing opioid overdose deaths. Led by researchers at Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction, the data show that more than half of those who died of an opioid overdose in Massachusetts encountered the h..(Read More)

Vaping-Related Disease: A Challenge For Health Care Providers

The recent emergence of severe and even fatal vaping-related lung disease presents a challenge for health care providers, according to Sanjay Sethi, MD, professor and chief of the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine in the Department of Medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. Sethi is an expert on lung disease, especially..(Read More)

More Severe OSA Leads To Higher Blood Pressure In Patients With Resistant Hypertension

In patients with high blood pressure resistant to treatment who also have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the more severe their OSA, the higher their blood pressure, according to new research published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. In “Prevalence, Characteristics and Association of Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Blood Pressure Control in Patients with Resistant Hypertension,..(Read More)

The Genetics Of Cancer

University of Delaware molecular biologist Mona Batish and collaborators at Harvard Medical School and University of California, Los Angeles, have identified a new circular ribonucleic acid (RNA) that increases tumor activity in soft tissue and connective tissue tumors. Finding this new genetic unit has the potential to advance understanding of the genetics of cancer and how cancer is identified ..(Read More)

Researchers Discover New Drug Target For The Fatal Lung Disease PAH

Scientists have identified a molecular pathway that contributes to the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe, often fatal condition that has no cure. The discovery, published Sept. 12, 2019, in Nature Communications, suggests a new target for developing new drug therapies for PAH, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. What is PAH? Th..(Read More)