2022 marks the first year cyber attacks overtake human error as the top cause of data loss New research by Databarracks has shown that 38% of organisations reported cyber attack and internal breaches as a cause of data loss in 2022. The findings come from the annual Data Health Check, a survey of 400 IT… Read More »
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Paramedic Gary Watson was assaulted by a drunk patient and received serious injuries to his face. BBC News – Health
Thousands of strokes and heart attacks could be prevented if patients switched blood pressure pills. Health records for five million with high blood pressure revealed the most popular pills, ACE inhibitors, were less effective than an alternative and caused more side effects. The study in The Lancet estimates that changing to thiazide diuretics would prevent… Read More »
Heart failure after a heart attack is a global epidemic leading to chronic heart failure pathology. About 6 million people in the United States and 23 million worldwide suffer from this end-stage disease that involves dysfunction of the heart, a change that clinicians call cardiac remodeling. Despite medical advances, 2 to 17 percent of patients… Read More »
Health Heart disease claims 610,000 American lives—accounting for about one in every four deaths—each year. Find out how your home state measures up. Most: West Virginia ABEMOS/Shutterstock West Virginia ranks tenth worst in the country when it comes to rates of heart disease-related deaths. Around 192 deaths out of every 100,000 people in West Virginia… Read More »