Melissa Suran

Molecular Phenotyping With Proteomics Medical News & Perspectives After the Genome—A Brief History of Proteomics Evaluation of Large-Scale Proteomics for Prediction of Cardiovascular Events Hannes Helgason, PhD; Thjodbjorg Eiriksdottir, MSc; Magnus O. Ulfarsson, PhD; Abhishek Choudhary, PhD; Sigrun H. Lund, PhD; Erna V. Ivarsdottir, PhD; Grimur Hjorleifsson Eldjarn, PhD; Gudmundur Einarsson, PhD; Egil Ferkingstad, PhD; Kristjan H. S.

Greater exposure to long-term air pollution may be associated with a higher risk of blood clots that can develop in deep veins, a longitudinal analysis of participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis has found. The article, published in Blood, followed up about 6600 adults in and around 6 different US metropolitan areas for roughly 17 years, during which time 248 cases of venous thromboembolism occurred.

False Health Claims Abound, but Physicians Are Still the Most Trusted Source for Health Information The COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted a growing problem: the pervasiveness of false claims about health. To better understand how people in the US view health inaccuracies and learn about them through media use, KFF (formerly Kaiser Family Foundation), a nonprofit organization focused on health policy, tracked exposure to and beliefs about certain claims.