DALLAS, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) – From heart procedures to treating stroke, more than a million cardiac catheterization procedures are performed each year in the United States. This minimally invasive procure can be a life saver. Now, new research is giving patients another option. Catheter Techniques

On July 12, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made history by releasing its debut image: a jewel-filled photo that's been touted as the deepest photo of the universe ever taken.

Doctors in Ireland removed 50 batteries from a woman's gut and stomach after she swallowed them in an apparent act of deliberate self-harm.

The woman, 66, was treated at St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin after ingesting an initially "unknown number" of cylindrical batteries, according to a report of the case, published Thursday (Sept. 15) in the Irish Medical Journal. An X-ray revealed a multitude of batteries in her abdomen, although thankfully none appeared to be obstructing her gastrointestinal (GI) tract and no batteries showed signs of structural damage.

Sepsis is the most common cause of death in infections. In Germany alone, around 75,000 people die from it every year. The most severe form of sepsis leads to circulatory failure, which experts refer to as septic shock. 60 percent of cases are fatal. So far, there is no specific therapy for septic shock - but that could soon change. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) wants to investigate a new treatment strategy in a multicentre study. The focus is on therapeutic plasma exchange. The scientists want to find out whether the new treatment method increases the survival rate of those affected. The German Research Foundation is funding the study with 1.2 million euros.

Transplantation: "Principles in suppression of innate alloimmune events markedly differ from those used to apply in suppression of adaptive alloimmunity," Prof. Dr. Walter Land emphasizes in his textbook "Innate Alloimmunity and Allograft Rejection".

"The integrated and orchestrated work of cells of the innate and adaptive immune response represents a defense system that may be regarded as a true miracle of nature. Of utmost admiration is the highly intelligent and sophisticated regulation of effector-class responses operating in this defense system," Prof. Dr. Walter Land reports in his textbook "Innate Alloimmunity".

A girthy stone penis sculpture recently uncovered at an ancient Roman site in Spain measures about 18 inches (46 centimeters) long, which could make it the largest Roman phallus carving ever discovered. The chiseled genitals may have been carved and displayed to ward off bad luck, according to experts.

The research team led by Dr Valentina Puntmann and Professor Eike Nagel from University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt followed up around 350 study participants without previously known heart problems who had recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection. They found that over half of them still reported heart symptoms almost a year later, such as exercise intolerance, tachycardia and chest pain. According to the study, these symptoms can be attributed to mild but persistent cardiac inflammation. Pronounced structural heart disease is not a characteristic of the syndrome. (Nature Medicine, DOI 10.1038/s41591-022-02000-0).

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to detect COVID-19 infection in people’s voices by means of a mobile phone app, according to research to be presented on Monday at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain [1].

The AI model used in this research is more accurate than lateral flow/rapid antigen tests and is cheap, quick and easy to use, which means it can be used in low-income countries where PCR tests are expensive and/or difficult to distribute.

The study, carried out by King’s College London, Nomad Projects and J & L Gibbons in partnership with the Canal & River Trust, shows that spending time by canals and rivers is linked to feeling happy and healthy.

Researchers report that the combination of blue and green space with wildlife, has a greater impact on wellbeing than spending time in an environment that is characterised by only green space.