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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the fifth leading cause of mortality in the United States and is associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. Enhanced education and access to home urine tests can help patients more effectively manage their CKD, reducing patients’ risks, according to research presented at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners…

As measles, hantavirus and cyclospora spread, experts say lost staff and expertise are slowing the response

Although adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase risk for mental illness at the population level, existing ACEs screens are less helpful in forecasting individual outcomes, suggesting they may not capture significant elements of childhood adversity. We have previously identified unpredictable parental and household experiences as an ACE that portends poorer cognitive and mental health. However, the…

China is shifting chronic respiratory disease management beyond hospitals toward home-based care, as policymakers, clinicians and medical-device makers promote earlier screening and long-term digital monitoring, creating new opportunities in one of the country’s fastest-growing healthcare markets

AT A GLANCE: Heart failure can develop gradually, so symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath or swelling should not be dismissed as normal aging. Here are five key things patients will learn about heart failure from Oliardiologist at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, in this article:

The discontinuation comes after the study failed to achieve its primary and key secondary objectives

Loneliness became a medical problem over the past 15 years, and a new study finds that doctors were among the last to claim it

Short-read sequencing (SRS)-based disease-targeted NGS gene panels have revolutionized rare disease diagnostics but often leave autosomal recessive cases unsolved when only one pathogenic allele is detected. Missing variants may reside in deep intronic regions or involve structural variants (SVs) undetectable by SRS. To improve diagnostic yield, we implemented a cost-effective target capture-based long-read sequencing (LRS)…

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) researchers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, have been awarded a US$3-million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to investigate whether exposure to toxic mold byproducts affects the symptom severity and immune system in patients diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a debilitating illness that affects as many as 3.3 million Americans

An attorney representing a New York City woman whose husband just died from Legionnaires’ disease is planning to take legal action