Healthy Young Woman Experiences Heart Palpitations in the Last Month of Pregnancy
A young woman in her 20s who was 8 months into her first pregnancy presented…
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Newborn Myocarditis Cluster; Mexican Surgery Infections; Overdose Deaths Plateau
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What the research shows about risks of myocarditis from COVID vaccines versus risks…
Soon after the first COVID-19 vaccines appeared in 2021, reports of rare cases of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, began to surface.
In most instances, the myocarditis has been…
ICI-Related Myocarditis Deaths Down With Tailored Non-Corticosteroid Strategy
For immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-associated myocarditis, increased vigilance of…
Can Biomarkers Give Early Heads-Up on Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Myocarditis?
In the quest to catch myocarditis earlier during immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy…
Illegal Diet Supplements for CVD; Lung Disease in OAC Users; Myocarditis Mechanism
FDA sent warnings to seven companies selling dietary supplements with unlawful claims of…
Cardiac antigen identified as mechanism for heart complication with…
Myocarditis is a complication that can occur in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Although the adverse event is rare -- affecting less than 1% of patients given the…
Which COVID vaccine you get can impact myocarditis risk: Study shows higher rates of…
Incidence of myocarditis, pericarditis or myopericarditis is two- to threefold higher after a second dose of the Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine when compared to the Pfizer BioNTech…
Hormone therapy could lower risk of immunotherapy-associated myocarditis in women:…
A new preclinical study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has discovered the underlying cause of…
Data from Israel: myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccines remain rare, highest risk in…
A new study from Israel found that the risk of developing myocarditis among males ages 16 to 19 years was about 1 in 15,000 after third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, and the…