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Carolinas Hospital System: Supply shortages, silver linings and other things you need to know about COVID
Sure, we all hated them in elementary school, but it turns out that percentages might just be our friend when it comes to gauging the severity of COVID.
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Carolinas Hospital System: How a potent antifibrotic peptide works and why it could reverse scarring in multiple organs
A research team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) led by Carol Feghali-Bostwick, Ph.D., reports in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) Insight that the E4 peptide reverses fibrosis, or scarring, in human and mouse tissues by activating an antifibrotic pathway that is common to all organ systems.
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Carolinas Hospital System: MUSC team demonstrates MRI scan in ambulance
Minutes matter when the brain is being deprived of oxygen.
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Carolinas Hospital System: Record year for annual MUSC fundraising event
The pandemic might be testing this country’s patience, but it certainly isn’t affecting its philanthropy.
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Carolinas Hospital System: COVID cases in Charleston area rose more than 730% in a week. What’s next, and when might this end?
The Omicron variant is driving what scientist Michael Sweat, Ph.D., called a meteoric rise in cases in the Charleston Tri-county area.“The weekly growth rate was just sky high, 738%.”
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Carolinas Hospital System: Guest conductor for Holiday Pops knows more about stitches than stanzas
Around this time last year, Andrew Matuskowitz, M.D., got his first COVID-19 vaccine.
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Carolinas Hospital System: Pet parade
Lacie Dalpee is just like anybody you’d meet at a Christmas party.
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Carolinas Hospital System: Omicron represents more than 60% of recent COVID cases sequenced at MUSC
A Christmas Eve release of new data from the Medical University of South Carolina shows Omicron accounts for more than 60% of all COVID cases in scientists’ most recent sequencing run.
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Carolinas Hospital System: Physicians over-relying on a commonly used laboratory test can miss liver cirrhosis
A recent study at the Medical University of South Carolina’s (MUSC) Digestive Disease Research Core Center (DDRCC) provides insight into why physicians should be cautious when using a certain liver function test to diagnose alcoholic cirrhosis.
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Carolinas Hospital System: MUSC Health, Tribe513 announce affiliation
A new collaboration will provide more health care access for patients in the Upstate as well as more opportunities for training new doctors and other healthcare providers.
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Getting childhood obesity initiatives across the finish line
Medical University of South Carolina researchers describe the development of a school-based wellness initiative for combating childhood obesity by the MUSC Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness (BCCW) in the November issue of the Journal of School Health.
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Carolinas Hospital System: New dental clinic opens in Ryan White Wellness Center
After the months of work that it took to make happen, it was fitting that the MUSC College of Dental Medicine dental clinic at the Ryan White Wellness Center of Charleston held its ribbon cutting on World AIDS Day – Dec. 1.
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Carolinas Hospital System: First responders say good night to children's hospital patients
First responders from throughout the Lowcountry are coming together to light up the winter sky and say “good night” to patients at the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion.
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Carolinas Hospital System: COVID-19 vaccine proves effective against hospitalization in children age 12-18
A team of researchers at the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital contributed to a nationwide study on the effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine against hospitalization in children age 12-18.
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Carolinas Hospital System: MUSC president Dr. David Cole honored with Joseph P. Riley Leadership Award
For his service to the greater Charleston community during the COVID-19 pandemic, MUSC President David J. Cole, M.D., FACS, was honored with the 2021 Joseph P. Riley Leadership Award by the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce on Friday.
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Carolinas Hospital System: 'Pay attention to Omicron, worry more about Delta'
Every geographic area that the Medical University of South Carolina tracks has seen what a scientist called “significant increases” in COVID-19 cases as we head toward the winter holidays.
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Carolinas Hospital System: Chronic disease through the lens of COVID-19
Gayenell Magwood, Ph.D., a professor in the MUSC College of Nursing, has received more than $3.4 million in funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) to investigate how COVID-19 has affected the health and quality of life of Black South Carolinians with preexisting chronic conditions and their caregivers.
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Carolinas Hospital System: Travel restrictions, kids’ shots and other things you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine
With a name more fitting of an antivirus software, Omicron is the latest and most perplexing variant of the coronavirus – and it doesn’t look like it’s going to go away any time soon.
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Carolinas Hospital System: MUSC looks for Omicron in local COVID cases
Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina are sequencing almost 400 local COVID cases this week to see if any involve the new Omicron variant.
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Carolinas Hospital System: ‘Almost Frankensteinish’ Omicron variant worrying, but don’t panic, scientist says
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes the illness COVID-19 has the full attention of the leader of the Medical University of South Carolina’s COVID tracking team.