Kidney care organizations and dialysis providers joined the CDC last week in efforts to assure dialysis clinic and transplant center staff that COVID-19 vaccinations are safe for themselves and their patients.“We have tracked 21 cases of anaphylaxis in the United States among 1.89 million doses given,” Kathleen Dooling, MD, MPH, a medical officer at the CDC and a panelist on the
ATLANTA — A home-based exercise intervention with protein supplementation improved physical performance at 12 weeks for older patients with frailty who underwent transcatheter aortic valve…
In a meta-analysis of studies covering more than 400,000 people, climbing stairs was associated with reduced risk for all-cause mortality and death from heart disease.“If…
Climate change has resulted in higher pollution levels, more wildfires and warmer temperatures, all of which come together and increase the risk for asthma, according…
More than 70% of the overall U.S. population is estimated to have subclinical cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, according to a research letter published in the Journal of…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized standards lowering mercury and toxic metal emissions, as well as carbon pollution from power plants, according to a…
Climate change has resulted in higher pollution levels, more wildfires and warmer temperatures, all of which come together and increase the risk for asthma, according…
DENVER — Prior studies have shown that many diseases are tied to the gut microbiome, including metabolic disorders such as obesity, according to Sahil Khanna,…
DENVER — It is important for clinicians to check for nutritional deficiencies in patients with obesity, a speaker at the Obesity Medicine Association conference noted.Patients…
Hepatocellular carcinoma screening in at-risk patients was linked to reduced mortality after accounting for lead-time and length-time biases, as well as improved early tumor detection…
Nearly half of patients with giant cell arteritis who received upadacitinib while tapering steroids achieved remission from weeks 12 through 52 in a phase 3…
