Category Archives: Coronary Heart Diseases

A rare syndrome affecting children that could be linked to COVID-19 has been reported in several European countries. England's health service said cases of children in intensive care with "a multi-system inflammatory state" were rising. Children were displaying overlapping symptoms of severe COVID-19, toxic shock syndrome and Kawasaki disease. Continue reading →

Release Date: May 5, 2020 BUFFALO, N.Y. Mary Wilson, wife of the late Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson and a strong advocate of Western New York for the past 29 years, will be awarded the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, UBs highest honor Continue reading →

In 1958, aphysiologist from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health observed that incidents of coronary heart disease were more common in middle-aged Americans than their European counterparts living in Mediterranean countries. Ancel Keys postulated that acorrelation existed between peoples risk for heart disease and their eating habits and lifestyle Continue reading →

Doctors in the United Kingdom and other European countries have recently reported small but increasing numbers of critically ill children with features of both Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome. These are uncommon conditions affecting the blood vessels. Englands National Health Service (NHS) issued an alert to doctors as a result Continue reading →

The deadly coronavirus is killing people more than 10 years before they would have died of natural causes. Continue reading →

[Interview] - What parents of children with heart diseases must know about COVID-19 - How to keep them safe | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspGetty Images New Delhi: As the number of confirmed cases globally stands beyond 3 million, with 2,44,000 deaths, scientists, medical experts and doctors work tirelessly to find better treatment methods, a vaccine against the virus, and more information about the virus that will help them achieve these two goals. According to the latest reports, the coronavirus has been found to infect and cause damage to other organs of the body, apart from the lungs Continue reading →

It took years. But doctors had nailed down, to the second, how to treat heart attack patients as quickly as possible. Ambulance crews would radio ahead to the hospital that they were treating someone with a heart attack. Continue reading →

Transparency Market Research (TMR) has published a new report titled, Cardiac Arrest Treatment Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast, 20192027. According to the report, theglobal cardiac arrest treatment marketwas valued at US$ 2,650.0 Mn in 2018 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 4.4% from 2019 to 2027. The global market is driven by increase in awareness & acceptance of cardiac arrest treatment and rise in prevalence rate of sudden cardiac arrest. Continue reading →

(CNN) -- UK paediatrics specialists have warned that a small but rising number of children are becoming ill with a rare syndrome that could be linked to coronavirus. On Sunday the Paediatric Intensive Care Society UK (PICS) warned about a small rise in the number of cases of critically ill children, some who had tested positive for Covid-19, presenting "overlapping features of toxic shock syndrome and atypical Kawasaki disease with blood parameters." In a statement sent over the weekend to medical professionals who look after critically ill children, PICS said "abdominal pain and gastrointestinal symptoms have been a common feature as has cardiac inflammation." So what is Kawasaki disease and how worried should parents and carers be? Continue reading →

The Honorable Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye The Honorable Associate Justices Supreme Court of California 350 McAllister Street San Francisco, CA 94102-4797 Dear Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Hon. Justices of the California Supreme Court: Pursuant to Rule 8.500(g) of the California Rules of Court, amicus curiae Human Rights Watch respectfully requests that this Court grant the Petitioners writ of mandate and halt the transfers of individuals from state and local law enforcement to the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our investigations into medical care in US immigration detention have repeatedly found evidence of severely substandard care, as well as systemic failure by ICE to address problems identified by its own experts. Continue reading →