According to a study, adolescents who sleep less than eight hours per night are more likely to be overweight or obese than their peers who get enough sleep
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) New research suggests that not getting enough sleep may doom adolescents and teens to obesity and poorer health as they enter adulthood.
With the general consensus that electronics applications could soon creep up on the shoulder of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the traditional biggest consumer of liquid helium worldwide, Rob Cockerill explores whether advances in MRI technology and techniques could also have an impact on the sector’s helium demand in the .
RESILIENCE project aims to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in cancer survivors
Cancer patients are a vulnerable population prone to develop cardiovascular complications. Among other factors, some anticancer therapies can induce adverse cardiovascular effects. Every year, more than 3 million Europeans receive anthracyclines alone or in combination with other anticancer agents. Anthracyclines are a frequently prescribed anticancer agent that can induce an irreversible toxic effect on the heart may lead to chronic heart failure in ≈5% of the cases. It is estimated that in Europe the prevalence of chronic heart failure secondary to cancer therapy-related cardiotoxicity is ≈1 million people. The trade-off between cancer and chronic heart failure is a massive psychological burden. For healthcare systems, the growing incidence of chronic heart failure has devastating consequences.