(Reuters) – The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. COVID-19 often undiagnosed in frontline hospital workers A high ... More »
(Reuters) – The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Full dexamethasone trial results released The full results... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Friday approved expanding the heart benefit claims Amarin Corp can make in promoting its drug Vascepa to include reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes in high-risk patients, opening a multibillion-dollar market op... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Using a bright orange electrocardiogram machine attached with suction cups to the body of a blue whale, scientists for the first time have measured the heart rate of the world’s largest creature and came away with insight about the renow... More »
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis (NOVN.S) is betting on heart drug prospect inclisiran in a $9.7 billion takeover of The Medicines Co (MDCO.O) as it challenges cardiovascular medicines from Amgen Inc (AMGN.O), Sanofi (SASY.PA) and Regeneron Pharmace... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Many patients with severe but stable heart disease who routinely undergo invasive procedures to clear and prop open clogged arteries would do as well by just taking medications and making lifestyle changes, U.S. researchers reported on Satu... More »
(Reuters Health) – Severely injured patients are more likely to have complications or die if they have a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors like high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, a recent study suggests. This collection of health problems, called ... More »
(Reuters Health) – No one can say if it’s the walks or the unconditional love, but there’s something about owning a dog that goes hand in hand with better heart health, suggests a study in eastern Europe. Researchers examined more than 1,700 adults in the Czec... More »
(Reuters Health) – Patients who have so-called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures to restore blood flow to the heart may be more likely to have complications with non-cardiac surgery than other people, a U.S. study suggests. PCI is commonly pe... More »
(Reuters Health) – People who eat more plant-based protein may live longer than those who get more protein from meat, a Japanese study suggests. Researchers followed almost 71,000 middle-aged Japanese adults for an average of almost two decades. Compared to pe... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new guideline from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association emphasizes social determinants of health and calls for their incorporation into shared decision-making to optimize prevention of cardiovascul... More »
(Reuters Health) – Where heart attack survivors live in the U.S. may affect their chances of getting the best medication to prevent a second attack, a new study suggests. Researchers found that New Englanders were most likely to get the right therapy after a h... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Healthy progress has been made in reducing smoking and tobacco use, but governments need to do more to help the world’s 1.1 billion smokers quit, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Tobacco use has also declined proportionately in ... More »
Women who develop preeclampsia, a form of dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy, may face a wide variety of heart problems long after they give birth, a research review concludes. Preeclampsia has long been linked to an increased risk of events like... More »
Obese people who engaged in resistance training were more likely to see reductions in a type of heart fat that has been linked to cardiovascular disease, a new study finds. In the small study, researchers determined that a certain type of heart fat, pericardia... More »
(Reuters Health) – With increased access to insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, fewer middle-aged people are dying from heart disease, a U.S. study suggests. Under the ACA, some U.S. states expanded coverage through Medicaid – a ... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women who suffer cardiac arrest outside of a hospital are less likely to receive help from bystanders and have less chance of survival than men, a recent Dutch study showed. The results align with what a separate study found in the United St... More »
GV, Alphabet Inc’s venture capital arm, led a $58.5 million investment to launch Verve Therapeutics, a new biotech focused on developing therapies that edit the human genome to treat heart diseases. Gene editing therapies are seen to have huge scope in treatin... More »
(Reuters Health) – People who suffer from conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, a Swedish study suggests, and the risk may be greatest in the months right after stress disorders are diagnose... More »
(Reuters Health – In a small pilot study that screened 45 Ohio middle school students for cardiovascular risk factors, a third of the children had abnormal levels of cholesterol or blood sugar, and two kids were found to have undiagnosed diabetes. Guidelines r... More »
(Reuters) – The Apple Watch was able to detect irregular heart pulse rates that could signal the need for further monitoring for a serious heart rhythm problem, according to data from a large study funded by Apple Inc (AAPL.O), demonstrating a potential future... More »
(Reuters) – Non-invasive heart valve replacement systems from Medtronic Plc and rival Edwards Lifesciences Corp proved as good or better than open heart surgery in younger, more active patients for whom the surgical option was deemed low risk, according to tri... More »
(Reuters Health) – After a raft of studies reassuring consumers that eggs are OK to eat, a new report associates an increasing risk of heart disease with the increasing consumption of eggs. The report, combining data from six earlier studies, found a 6 percent... More »
(Reuters Health) – Patients who need blockages cleared in their carotid arteries to reduce the risk of stroke may want to seek hospitals and doctors who do a lot of these procedures, a new research review suggests. These delicate procedures on a major artery c... More »
(Reuters Health) – Just because the flagship hospital gets good marks for patient care doesn’t mean results will be equally good in affiliated hospitals in the same network, a new study finds. Researchers found variable surgical outcomes across networks associ... More »
(Reuters Health) – Kids living with type 1 diabetes are no different from their peers in their reading and math test scores, a Danish study suggests. The less common form of diabetes, known as type 1, develops in childhood or young adulthood when the pancreas ... More »
(Reuters Health) – Diabetic patients who take statins to treat high cholesterol may get an added benefit: a lower risk of damage to the retina, a new study suggests. Researchers found that diabetic patients taking statins were 14 percent less likely to develop... More »
(Reuters Health) – More than half of heart failure patients who visit the emergency room don’t receive prompt follow-up care, and a Canadian study suggests the delay is associated with more complications and lower survival. Researchers studied more than 34,000... More »
(Reuters Health) – For people with high blood pressure, starting an exercise regimen may lower blood pressure by as much as taking medication would, a large analysis suggests. Researchers combined data from nearly 400 randomized trials that assessed the effect... More »
(Reuters Health) – Although space travel exposes astronauts to forms of radiation that are uncommon on Earth, and that are linked to cancers and heart problems, a U.S. study suggests this doesn’t significantly shorten their lives. Researchers compared nearly 6... More »
(Reuters Health) – To help more patients survive cardiac arrest, traditional CPR training needs an overhaul with more chances for practice – and instructions on social and digital platforms might help lessons stick, some doctors argue. Few Americans are traine... More »
(Reuters Health) – Hormones given to people to align their sex with their gender pose a significant risk of serious blood clots and stroke among transgender women, one of the largest studies of transgender patients has concluded. The risk of a dangerous type o... More »
(Reuters Health) – After a cardiac arrest in the hospital, older black patients don’t survive as long as older white patients, new data show. “The magnitude and persistence of the difference in long-term survival is sobering,” Dr. Lena M. Chen from University ... More »
(Reuters Health) – The use of onsite automated external defibrillators (AED), increasingly found in places like airports and sports stadiums, is raising the chances of surviving a cardiac arrest, suggests a recent study from Europe. Between 2008 and 2013 in re... More »
(Reuters Health) – Adult survivors of childhood cancer are at risk for serious chronic medical problems, but many of them are not particularly concerned about their future health, a study suggests. In a survey of 15,620 adult survivors of childhood cancer and ... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women who breathe polluted air during pregnancy may be more likely to have children who develop high blood pressure, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers focused on what’s known as fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5, a mixture of solid particl... More »
(Reuters Health) – Even light drinkers who enjoy a single beer or glass of wine every night may still be more likely to die prematurely than people who drink less, a recent study suggests. Compared to people who drink less than 100 grams of pure alcohol a week... More »
(Reuters Health) – People who eat lots of processed and red meat are at increased risk of developing chronic liver disease and insulin resistance, a diabetes risk factor – especially if they like their steak well done, an Israeli study suggests. Researchers fo... More »
(Reuters Health) – Adult survivors of childhood cancer have a greater risk of heart disease and develop risk factors like high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol earlier in life compared to the general population, a German study suggests. Researchers stud... More »
(Reuters Health) – People living in the U.S. but born elsewhere may have lower risk for heart disease and stroke than their native-born neighbors, suggests a new study. Foreign-born residents had a range of risks, however. Women from Europe and men from Africa... More »
FILE PHOTO: French multinational pharmaceutical company SANOFI logo is seen at the headquarters in Paris, France, March 8, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo (Reuters) – A potent, expensive cholesterol drug sold by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi s... More »
(Reuters) – Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi SA said on Saturday they would be willing to charge less for their potent cholesterol drug, Praluent, if insurers agree to lessen onerous access barriers for high-risk patients. Since the approvals in 2015 o... More »
FILE PHOTO: A surgery nurse is seen beside the heart beat monitor in the operating theatre of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (UKB) hospital in Berlin, Germany February 29, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch /File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Drugmakers are racing to scoo... More »
Vials of MPC-150-IM, Mesoblast’s stem cell product, are seen in this undated handout photo received December 14, 2017. Mesoblast/Handout via REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) – The early hope that stem cell therapy would make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and cur... More »
Tighter blood pressure guidelines from U.S. heart organizations mean millions more people need to make lifestyle changes, or start taking medication, in order to avoid cardiovascular problems. More »
A majority of Americans want the U.S. government to require nutrition labels on food packaging, including people who do not read them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released as the Trump administration delays tougher new requirements. More »
The World Health Organization told governments on Thursday not to get involved in a foundation funded by tobacco firm Philip Morris International to look at ways of reducing the harm from smoking. More »
Novo Nordisk said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an expanded use of its diabetes drug to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke. More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Hailing from the so-called stroke belt, a band of southern U.S. states with high stroke mortality rates, is associ More »
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Middle aged adults who do even a small amount of regular strength training exercise may be lowering their risk of More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – When ambulances go on diversion, bypassing the nearest hospital because emergency rooms are overcrowded, black pat More »
By Will Boggs MD(Reuters Health) – Meeting some or all of the American Heart Association’s seven ideal cardiovascular health goals is associated with More »
People who are aged 75 or older and take aspirin daily to ward off heart attacks face a significantly elevated risk of serious or even fatal bleeding and should be given heartburn drugs to minimize the danger, a 10-year study has found. More »
By Andrew M. SeamanHeart health in the U.S. has generally improved since the start of the 21st century, but not for adults living in poverty, a new More »
By Gene Emery(Reuters Health) – One risk of taking lithium for bipolar disorder during the first trimester of pregnancy is turning out to be lower th More »
FILE PHOTO – A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Edwards Lifesciences Corp’s Sapien 3 artificia... More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – Packaged foods and store-bought drinks are blamed for adding a lot of salt to U.S. diets, but a new study sugg More »
By Lisa RapaportAn experimental foot-temperature monitoring system might one day be able to detect when diabetic patients are developing foot ulcers, More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Men with multiple risk factors for heart disease may be more likely to develop erectile dysfunction later in life More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – Americans need to do more than stop reaching for the salt shaker if they want to cut back on the amount of sod More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Many patients with peripheral artery disease, a common cause of chronic disability and mobility limitations in the More »
The introduction of plain packaging for tobacco cigarettes sold in Britain from next month could cut the number of smokers in the country by another 300,000 within a year, researchers said on Thursday. More »
A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo Merck & Co’s cholesterol-reducing drug Vytorin faces competition for the first time ever after two companies announc... More »
By Will Boggs MD(Reuters Health) – Drinking 32 ounces of energy drink is associated with potentially harmful changes in blood pressure and heart func More »
Four naked mole-rats are seen in a University of Illinois at Chicago laboratory in an undated photo released April 20, 2017. Courtesy of Thomas Park/UIC/Handout via REUTERS They are homely, buck-toothed, pink, nearly hairless and just plain weird, but one of t... More »
FILE PHOTO – Commuters cycle past a bus queue outside Waterloo Station in London, Britain August 6, 2015. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/File Photo People who cycle to work have a substantially lower risk of developing cancer or heart disease or dying prematurely, and... More »
Gridlock traffic is pictured on highway 395 as people evacuate Washington after an earthquake August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Reed By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – People who live near sources of heavy traffic exhaust may be at higher risk of heart disease be... More »
An Abbott company logo is pictured at the reception of its office in Mumbai, India, September 8, 2015. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter to Abbott Laboratories, citing manufacturing flaws with a range of car... More »
By Will Boggs MD(Reuters Health) – – Being physically inactive raises the risk of losing the ability to perform activities of daily living – both bef More »
By Gene Emery(Reuters Health) – – For overweight people with heart disease, trying and failing to lose weight may be more dangerous than not losing w More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – – Patching the heart with sheets of patients’ own cells might improve symptoms in some cases of severe heart f More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – It may be tempting to latch on to the latest diet fad like juicing or going gluten-free to lose weight or achieve More »
By Carolyn CristEven without high blood pressure or other signs of illness, obese adults have a much higher risk of developing heart disease than nor More »
A customer smokes a cigarette in a cafe in Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2016. REUTERS/David W Cerny/File Photo A global tobacco treaty put in place in 2005 has helped reduce smoking rates by 2.5 percent worldwide in 10 years, researchers said on Tuesday, bu... More »
A newer class of type 2 diabetes drugs significantly cut the risk of death and hospitalization for heart failure compared with other medicines for the disease, according to data released on Sunday from a so-called real world study sponsored by AstraZeneca. More »
Patients who received Abbott Laboratories’ novel dissolving vascular stent had a significantly higher rate of serious adverse heart events than those treated with the company’s widely used Xience drug-coated metal stent two years after implantation, according ... More »
Longer-term use of the oral blood thinner Xarelto significantly cut the risk of recurrence of potentially life-threatening blood clots with no additional major bleeding compared with low-dose aspirin in patients at elevated risk, according to data presented on... More »
FILE PHOTO – An Amgen sign is seen at the company’s office in South San Francisco, California, U.S. on October 21, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo Amgen Inc’s (AMGN.O) $14,000 cholesterol drug Repatha cut the risk of heart attack and stroke by over 2... More »
An Amgen sign is seen at the company’s office in South San Francisco, California October 21, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo Amgen Inc (AMGN.O) sells its cholesterol-lowering drug Repatha at a discount of about 30 percent to its U.S. list price of $1... More »
Data that should help unlock the sales potential of a potent new cholesterol medicine will be unveiled at the American College of Cardiology meeting this week as the future of the only rival drug rests with the courts in an ongoing patent dispute. More »
Siemens logo is pictured on a CT scan in the manufacturing plant of Siemens Healthineers in Forchheim near Nuremberg, Germany, October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle By Will Boggs MD(Reuters Health) – Improvement or worsening of chest pain symptoms and qualit... More »
By Will Boggs MD(Reuters Health) – Herbal medications offer few benefits and many risks for people with heart disease, according to a recent review. More »
By Madeline Kennedy(Reuters Health) – Men with a history of heavy drinking are more likely to have stiff walls in the arteries that supply blood to t More »
By Gene Emery(Reuters Health) – It might be possible for people with an older pacemaker to safely get an MRI after all.A new study suggests t More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Married couples may be healthier than single, divorced or widowed adults at least in part because they have lower More »
By Shereen Lehman(Reuters Health) – Improving cardiovascular fitness over time may prolong life, suggests a new study.Patients who started wi More »
Bottles of olive oil are lined in a factory in Dos Hermanas, near the Andalusian capital of Seville September 21, 2012. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – A traditional Mediterranean diet with added olive oil may be tied to a lower ris... More »
A resident shovels snow away from the entrance to his home in Union City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from Midtown Manhattan, after the second-biggest winter storm in New York history, January 24, 2016. REUTERS/Rickey Rogers By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters He... More »
By Reuters StaffNEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In elderly hypertensive patients, treating to a systolic blood pressure <120 mm Hg (vs <140 More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Government policies designed to reduce how much salt people eat may be cost-effective even without considering the More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Surgeons who get extra training to sharpen their communication skills may have an easier time explaining best and More »
Artificial heart maker Carmat said on Monday it had decided to withdraw its initial request to France’s national drugs agency (ANSM) to resume trial implantations. More »
FILE PHOTO – Young men sing outside Victoria station in London during the Christmas party season, December 17, 2015. REUTERS/Paul Hackett/File Photo Scientists have found that the brain cells in mice that stimulate the urge to eat can be activated by alcohol a... More »
An Amgen sign is seen at the company’s office in South San Francisco, California October 21, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Chief Executive Len Schleifer on Monday ripped into Amgen Inc for its insistence on blocking sales of a rival ... More »
The ticker and trading information for St. Jude Medical is displayed where the stock is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N) moved to p... More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Deaths from heart-related causes tend to spike around the holidays, and the cold weather may not really be to blam More »
A screen displays trading information for stocks- Pfizer, Abbott Laboratories, Merck and Company and Eli Lilly and Company on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., May 16, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Two leading ... More »
A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed U.S regulators said on Friday they would allow Eli Lilly and Co to state that its diabetes drug Jardiance reduces risk of death... More »
By Kathryn Doyle(Reuters Health) – Erectile dysfunction is more common in men with gum disease, according to a new review of existing studies. More »
A company logo is seen at a Pfizer office in Dublin, Ireland November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton Pfizer Inc’s Celebrex arthritis drug was shown to be at least as safe as the widely used prescription-strength versions of painkillers ibuprofen and napro... More »
