The struggle to understand – and combat – heart disease among South Asian Americans
South Asians are four times more likely to get heart disease than other ethnic groups in the US. We are only starting to understand why. Jan 13, 2021 · 06:30 pm Pramila Jayapal, an Indian-American in the US Congress, introduced the South Asian heart health awareness act. | Mandel Ngan/AFP
In August 2020, a 60-year-old Indian-American walked into a clinic in Chicago complaining of abnormally high cholesterol levels. The doctor urged him to cut red meat from his diet. “But I’m a vegetarian… I don’t eat any red meat,” the puzzled man replied.
Here are first-hand accounts of what it's like to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, from older health care workers among the first to receive vaccinations.
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If you re living with diabetes, prioritizing your health has never been more important. People with an underlying health condition, including diabetes (whether it s type 1 or type 2), are at a higher risk for complications from COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism combined the results of 16 trials of type 2 diabetes apps and found that, on average, using one led to a 0.57 percent drop in hemoglobin A1C, the average blood sugar levels over the span of three months.
Obesity reveals that apps really can help people with type 2 diabetes lower their body weight and waist circumference.
Is your pandemic pet giving your eye allergies the blues?
Dec. 18, 2020
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(BPT) - The pandemic has caused pet adoptions and sales to soar because who doesn’t want a cute, furry friend for extra snuggles during this time? What some might be noticing is that those snuggles from a cute pup or kitty come at a cost itchy allergy eyes. If you are experiencing irritated, itchy eyes since bringing home your furry friend, you might be allergic to pet dander and animal hair. Before you make plans to send your new best friend back to the shelter, there might be help.
Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Corp.: Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Announces Dr. Benjamin Krantz to Join Company as CEO
Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Corporation
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( APC or the Company ), is pleased to announce that Dr. Benjamin Krantz will be joining the Company s US subsidiary Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Inc. ( APTI ) as CEO following the completion of his oncology fellowship at NYU Langone Health on July 1
st, 2021. Bill Dickie will continue his role as interim CEO of APTI until then and remain a member of the board of directors after.
Benjamin Krantz MD, MBA is the Chief Fellow in hematology/oncology at New York University Langone Medical Center and is currently on the Board of Directors at APTI. He completed his residency in internal medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center during which time he analyzed investigator intellectual property disclosures as a Columbia Technology Ventures fellow. He subseque