Jim Kling
Professional freelance #science and #medical writer for @MDEdge and others. Amateur shepherd and dad.
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2 months ago |
espanol.medscape.com | Jim Kling
El desarrollo y el funcionamiento de los pulmones son muy difíciles de estudiar. Ambos se ven afectados por diversos factores ambientales, como humo de primera y segunda mano, contaminación atmosférica e infecciones, y los factores genéticos también pueden influir. Los estudios retrospectivos quizá sean útiles, pero es difícil que las personas estén seguras de sus exposiciones ambientales y tales estudios conllevan fuerte riesgo de sesgo que puede confundir los resultados.
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Jan 25, 2025 |
mdedge.com | Jim Kling
AT WCE 2017 – A panel of 11 microRNA biomarkers was effective in predicting endometriosis in a small validation study conducted at a Belgium hospital, showing the progress researchers are making toward a noninvasive test. The research team at Leuven University Hospital developed the model using a population of 120 women, 82 of whom had endometriosis.
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Jan 25, 2025 |
mdedge.com | Jim Kling
EXPERT ANALYSIS AT WCE 2017– Endometriosis, while generally considered a premenopausal condition, can also occur in women following surgical or natural menopause, and can undergo malignant transformation, although this risk is likely very small. That was the main message from a new meta-analysis presented at the World Congress on Endometriosis.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
mdedge.com | Jim Kling
In 2022, the Journal of Neurosurgery took the unusual step of publishing a case report of a nonhuman subject, in this case an 8-year-old male sea lion named Cronutt, who had severe epilepsy that in many ways mirrored the common form seen in humans. A 2020 xenotransplantation of interneuron progenitor cells in the sea lion’s hippocampus may have cured him.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
mdedge.com | Jim Kling
FROM AES 2024 — Individuals with both uncontrolled epilepsy and sleep apnea are at significantly higher risk for mortality than those with epilepsy alone, according to a new analysis of over 2 million patient-years drawn from the Komodo Health Claims Database. “A 10-year-old with uncontrolled central sleep apnea is about 200 times more likely to die than a general population 10-year-old. That’s comparable to a 10-year-old with [uncontrolled sleep apnea and] congestive heart failure.
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I recently took over the leadership of the Endeavour Award, which recognizes fantasy and science fiction by Pacific Northwest authors. Find it/me at @EndeavourAward
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