FDA panel says common over-the-counter decongestant doesn’t work

The ingredient, called phenylephrine, is found in a number of over-the-counter cold and allergy medications.

Poor prognostic factors in systolic heart failure

-Higher NYHA functional class 

-Resting tachycardia .

-Presence of 53 gallop

- Elevated jugular venous pressure .

-Low blood pressure (< 100/60 mm Hg)

-Moderate to severe mitral regurgitation .

-Low maximal oxygen consumption (peak V02)

-Hyponatremia

- Elevated pro—BNP levels

 - Renal  insufficiency

U.S., Europe start exploring potential Lyme disease vaccine for first time in 20 years – National

Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers in the U.S. and Europe to test the first potential vaccine against Lyme disease in 20 years — in hopes of better fighting the tick-borne threat.

monkeypox vaccine

The US government is considering a change to how physicians give monkeypox vaccines so it can make the most of the supply on hand, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said Thursday.

As part of the Biden administration's declaration of the monkeypox outbreak in the US as a public health emergency, it's looking into administering Jynneos vaccine shots intradermally instead of subcutaneously.

 kids about weight

Eating disorders impact people of every age, gender and background, experts say, and a study published August 1 in JAMA Pediatrics shows that up to 5% of children ages 9 and 10 show disordered eating behaviors.

Major step forward in fabricating an artificial heart, fit for a human



By recreating the helical structure of heart muscles, researchers improve understanding of how the heart beats

Syncope

 is defined as a transient loss of consciousness accompanied by loss of postural or motor tone with a spontaneous return to baseline neurologic function. In most patients, syncope is benign and self-limiting; however, it can be the initial manifestation of a life-threatening disease process. A detailed initial evaluation can provide several clues to the underlying etiology

Patients with an arrhythmic cause of syncope usually have undertying structural heart disease and may not have any prodromal symptoms prior to the syncopal episode. In contrast, those with vasovagal or neurocardiogenic syncope frequentty experience a prodrome with nausea, pallor, diaphoresis, and generalized sense of warmth prior to the syncopal 22 episode