PAHO/WHO partners with the Ministry of Health & Wellness to commemorate World No Tobacco Day 2026 under the theme, 'Unmasking the Appeal: Countering Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction.' - Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

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A new AI-driven platform could allow people to interact with their medical devices by sending messages using a smartphone application and receiving feedback in real time. Participants in a proof-of-concept study undergoing monitoring for seizures could ask questions about their brain activity, receive personalized alerts, report symptoms and behaviors and help train the system to better recognize seizure-related patterns.

Acute hemorrhage within the thyroid gland is uncommon but can cause rapid neck swelling and, in severe cases, airway compromise. We report a 65-year-old woman with hypertension and a history of partial thyroidectomy performed more than 25 years earlier who presented with painful neck swelling that developed overnight. The swelling was associated with pain on swallowing, without shortness of breath, voice change, drooling, fever, or recent neck trauma. She was hemodynamically stable with an oxygen saturation of 99% on room air. Examination showed marked neck swelling, thyromegaly, thyroid tenderness, and left-sided neck induration. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a multinodular thyroid with a large heterogeneous mass in the left thyroid lobe causing mass effect and rightward tracheal deviation. Subsequent ultrasonography demonstrated a heterogeneous intrathyroidal collection consistent with hematoma. The patient remained clinically stable and was discharged after approximately five hours of observation. At otolaryngology follow-up 10 days later, repeat ultrasonography showed a progressively enlarging left thyroid nodule, and fine-needle aspiration cytology wa

Electrical storm following myocardial infarction (MI) can be difficult to control when antiarrhythmic drugs and cardioversion fail. We describe a 53-year-old man with hypertension and previously undiagnosed diabetes who presented with an inferolateral ST-segment elevation MI caused by total occlusion of the proximal left circumflex artery, which was treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention and drug-eluting stent placement. He then developed marked leukocytosis with a systemic inflammatory response and acute kidney injury (peak creatinine, 4.03 mg/dL), which resolved with empirical antibiotic therapy and supportive renal care. On day 6, he experienced recurrent syncope associated with sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) that persisted despite intravenous amiodarone and lidocaine, electrolyte correction, and repeated cardioversion, necessitating sedation and mechanical ventilation. Repeat coronary angiography demonstrated a patent stent. VT ceased following an ultrasound-guided left stellate ganglion block (SGB) using 1% lidocaine and dexamethasone, which resulted in Horner syndrome. Antiarrhythmic therapy was continued, and the patient was extubated wit