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Ventilators might cause pneumonia?
Nosocomial pneumonia is the most common and serious nosocomial infection, of which ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) accounts for 40%. VAP caused by refractory pathogens is still a difficult clinical problem. For years, guidelines have recommended a range of interventions (such as targeted se...Read more -
For Medical Progress,Taking tissue from healthy body?
Can tissue samples be collected from healthy people to advance medical progress? How to strike a balance between scientific objectives, potential risks, and the interests of participants? In response to the call for precision medicine, some clinical and basic scientists have shifted from assessin...Read more -
COVID-19 during pregnancy, fetal visceral inversion?
Splanchnic inversion (including total splanchnic inversion [dextrocardia] and partial splanchnic inversion [levocardia]) is a rare congenital developmental abnormality in which the direction of splanchnic distribution in patients is opposite to that of normal people. We observed a significant in...Read more -
COVID-19 End！The cost of saving life exceeds the benefits？
On April 10, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill officially ending the COVID-19 “national emergency” in the United States. One month later, COVID-19 no longer constitutes a “public health Emergency of International concern.” In September 2022, Biden said the ̶...Read more -
Nobel Prize in Medical Physiology: Inventor of mRNA vaccines
The job of making a vaccine is often described as thankless. In the words of Bill Foege, one of the world’s greatest public health physicians, “No one will thank you for saving them from a disease they never knew they had.” But public health physicians argue that the return on i...Read more -
Loosening the Shackles of Depression
As career challenges, relationship problems, and social pressures mount, depression may persist. For patients treated with antidepressants for the first time, fewer than half achieve sustained remission. Guidelines on how to choose a drug after a second antidepressant treatment fails differ, sugg...Read more -
A Holy Grail — The Prediction of Protein Structure
This year’s Lasker Basic Medical Research Award was awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their contributions to the creation of the AlphaFold artificial intelligence system that predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins based on the first order sequence of amino acids...Read more -
A new drug for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)
Nowadays, Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the main cause of chronic liver disease in China and even in the world. The disease spectrum includes simple hepatic steatohepatitis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and related cirrhosis and liver cancer. NASH is characterized by ...Read more -
Exercise Works to Lower Blood Pressure?
Hypertension remains a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke. Non-pharmacological interventions such as exercise are very effective in lowering blood pressure. To determine the best exercise regimen for lowering blood pressure, the researchers conducted a large-scale pair-to-pai...Read more -
Catheter Ablation is Better than Medication!
With the aging of the population and the advancement of cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment, chronic heart failure (heart failure) is the only cardiovascular disease that is increasing in incidence and prevalence. China’s population of chronic heart failure patients in 2021 about...Read more -
Cancer of the Earth – Japan
In 2011, the earthquake and tsunami affected the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 1 to 3 reactor core meltdown. Since the accident, TEPCO has continued to inject water into the containment vessels of Units 1 to 3 to cool the reactor cores and recover contaminated water, and as of March 2021,...Read more -
The Novel Coronavirus Strain EG.5 , A third Infection ?
Recently, the number of cases of the new coronavirus variant EG.5 has been on the rise in many places around the world, and the World Health Organization has listed EG.5 as a “variant that needs attention”. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday (local time) that it ...Read more -
Chinese Hospital Medicine Anti-corruption
On July 21, 2023, the National Health Commission jointly held a video conference with ten departments, including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Public Security, to deploy a one-year centralized rectification of corruption in the national medical field. Three days later, the Nationa...Read more -
AI and Medical Education — A 21st-Century Pandora’s Box
OpenAI’s ChatGPT (chat generative pretrained transformer) is an artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot that has become the fastest growing Internet application in history. Generative AI, including large language models such as GPT, generates text similar to that generated by humans an...Read more -
Anti-covid-19 drug: Pegylated interferon (PEG-λ)
Interferon is a signal secreted by the virus into the body’s descendants to activate the immune system, and is a line of defense against the virus. Type I interferons (such as alpha and beta) have been studied for decades as antiviral drugs. However, type I interferon receptors are expresse...Read more -
The coronavirus pandemic is slowing down, but still wearing masks in hospitals?
The U.S. declaration of the end of the “public health emergency” is a milestone in the fight against SARS-CoV-2. At its peak, the virus killed millions of people around the world, completely disrupted lives and fundamentally changed healthcare. One of the most visible changes in the h...Read more -
What is oxygen therapy？
Oxygen therapy is a very common means in modern medical practice, and is the basic method of hypoxemia treatment. Common clinical oxygen therapy methods include nasal catheter oxygen, simple mask oxygen, Venturi mask oxygen, etc. It is important to understand the functional characteristics of var...Read more -
China will ban the production of thermometers containing mercury in 2026
Mercury thermometer has a history of more than 300 years since its appearance, as a simple structure, easy to operate, and basically “lifelong precision” thermometer once it came out, it has become the preferred tool for doctors and home health care to measure body temperature. Altho...Read more