Author Archives: Francisco Fernandez, MD

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University have developed an artificial intelligence-based approach to predict if and when a patient could die of cardiac arrest. The technology was built on raw images of patients’ diseased hearts and patients’ backgrounds, and can significantly improve doctors’ predictions and stands to revolutionize clinical decision making and increase the survival rate […]

Video gaming has become more and more pervasive across the lifespan as well as across cultures. Nowadays, people spend a collective three billion hours per week playing video games worldwide.  It is predicted that the average young person will spend about 10 000 h gaming by age 21, twice the time it would take to […]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 47% of adults in the United States have hypertension or high blood pressure. The International Society of Hypertension defines hypertension as blood pressure that is consistently higher than 140 over 90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). For many people, hypertension can be controlled using medication, […]

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading underlying cause of death worldwide, accounting for more than 31.5% of total deaths. The main risk factors for developing atherosclerosis, which is the most common cause of CV clinical events, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and aging are rising due to changes in lifestyle and the growing elderly population.  […]

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia worldwide and is defined biologically as the pathologic deposition of folded β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques, and hyperphosphorylated neurofibrillary tau tangles in the brain leading to neurodegeneration. Clinical trials focusing on therapeutic candidates that modify β-amyloid (Aβ) have repeatedly failed to treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD), suggesting that […]