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05/17/2026

VO2 max.

What is it?
How to measure it
Normative data
Improving VO2 max

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https://www.scienceforsport.com/vo2-max/

05/17/2026

Peanut allergy is a leading cause of food allergy worldwide and affects about 2% of people in the US. Peanut allergy involves an immune reaction to peanuts that may cause skin, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and cardiovascular symptoms, and can cause severe allergic reactions.

📄 This JAMA Patient Page describes the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of peanut allergy.

https://ja.ma/4dkMMbZ

05/17/2026

Nature Reviews Cardiology: In this Review, Ebba Brakenhielm summarizes current knowledge on cardiac lymphatics, including structural and molecular features of the lymphatic system, the regulation of cardiac lymphangiogenesis, and the alterations in cardiovascular diseases, and discusses potential approaches for therapeutic lymphangiogenesis and areas for future research.

Link to the Review in the comments.

05/17/2026

For surgery, does truly outperform general anesthesia—or has the evidence gap narrowed? Check out this month's and editorial on the topic.

https://buff.ly/861g20P

05/17/2026

is a disease caused by a that is transmitted to humans primarily through the bite of infected .

📄 This JAMA Patient Page describes how chikungunya virus infection is acquired and provides information on the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis for patients.

https://ja.ma/4wzrqA6

05/14/2026

05/14/2026

Newborns who live at high altitudes are chronically exposed to low oxygen levels, which may impair lung development and induce vascular remodeling, often resulting in pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular hypertrophy, and right heart failure.

In this context of impaired lung development, Zazzeron et al. investigated the potential therapeutic effects of long-term inhaled nitric oxide in a mouse model of pulmonary hypertension.

📗 Learn more: https://journals.lww.com/anesthesiology/fulltext/2026/05000/effects_of_continuous_low_dose_nitric_oxide_in_a.24.aspx

05/08/2026

Use this free patient summary to help explain the findings of a new study of proximal hypoglossal nerve stimulation (pHGNS) for obstructive (OSA). The findings suggest pHGNS could improve OSA outcomes in patients who cannot tolerate positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy. https://bit.ly/4ebxTuD

05/07/2026

Urinary levels of plastics-associated phthalates and bisphenols chemicals were associated with cardiometabolic risk biomarkers and can be lowered by reducing plastic use in food and personal-care products, according to a paper in Nature Medicine.

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05/06/2026

The French term pas de deux, meaning “step for two,” is a powerful choreographic device that requires trust, harmony, and balance between ballet partners.

Although Jerry Dorsch, M.D. and Susan Dorsch, M.D. were not known to literally perform a dance for two, their chronicles of foundational details of anesthesia devices and technological advances in the 1975 textbook "Understanding Anesthesia Equipment," demonstrated noteworthy interdependence and discipline.

📜 Learn more about their lives and contributions to the field in the latest Anesthesiology Reflection: https://ow.ly/TAnb50YOcZu

05/05/2026

Anaemia means that the amount of red blood cells in the blood is too low. After medicine laureate George Whipple showed that the formation of blood cells among dogs was stimulated by a diet rich in liver, in 1926 George Minot and William Murphy adapted this finding for people who had pernicious anaemia. They were able to treat this previously fatal illness with a “liver extract”. Today we know that people with pernicious anaemia are deficient in vitamin B12 – which is readily found in liver.

Watch the three laureates George Whipple, George Minot and William Murphy receive their award: https://bit.ly/3YJrPke