Does Gabapentin Raise Dementia Risk?
The anticonvulsant gabapentin has been linked to a significantly increased risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. However, ...
Study Sheds New Light on Gabapentin Risks
(MedPage Today) -- Gabapentin (Neurontin) prescriptions for chronic low back pain were linked with an increased risk of dementia and ...
Why bizarre Cold War hoverboats are making a comeback
Illustration concept for the US DARPA Liberty Lifter programAurora Flight Sciences It’s not a boat. It’s not a plane. It’s ...
FDA OKs Moderna’s COVID Shot for Kids
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted full approval to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine (Spikevax) for kids ages 6 months through 11 ...
DOJ Subpoenas Doctors Over Youth Gender Care
(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors ...
NIH to Cap How Much Journals Can Charge Authors for Open Access
(MedPage Today) -- The NIH plans to cap how much researchers can pay to have NIH-funded work published in major ...
Which Brain Stim Offers the Best Outcomes With Depression?
TOPLINE:Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) was associated with reduced depressive symptoms in a new meta-analysis – but individual types of tES ...
Fatal genetic disorder treated by replacing the brain’s immune cells
Microglia are specialised immune cells in the brainScience Photo Library/Alamy Replacing the brain’s immune cells pauses the progression of a ...
Response to ‘Big Beautiful Bill’; Science Fair Advocacy; Love Island USA’s Nurse
(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. In ...
It’s ‘Code Red’ for Medicaid
(MedPage Today) -- Congress's recently passed "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" includes $1.2 trillion in cuts over the next decade ...
Combo Therapy Boosts Survival in Resectable Biliary Tract Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- Camrelizumab, an investigational immunotherapy, on top of adjuvant capecitabine (Xeloda) and radiotherapy, improved survival outcomes in patients ...
Here’s What to Know About the MMR Vaccine, Fetal Debris, and DNA
(MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine contains ...
Inhaled insulin may free children with type 1 diabetes from injections
Afrezza is an inhaled form of insulinMannKind Corporation Inhaled insulin helps to control blood sugar levels in children with type ...
Poor Hospital Discharge Summaries Putting Patients in Danger
Vital information about diagnoses, medications, and follow-up care is often delayed, incomplete, or missed altogether when patients are discharged from ...
Doc’s Ozone Injection Charges; Therapist Accused of ‘Sexploitation’; Research Theft?
(MedPage Today) -- Virginia physician Jawad Bhatti, MD, is facing charges for allegedly giving patients ozone gas treatments -- including ...
Will More Money Make Doctors Happier?
(MedPage Today) -- This is the timeless question: Does more money make us happier? And even more specifically, will more ...
Risk Factors ID’d for Persistent Concussion Symptoms
TOPLINE:Concentration difficulties, a medical history of anxiety and/or depression or sleep disorders, and clinical signs such as loss of consciousness ...
U.S. Faces Its Worst Year for Measles in More Than Three Decades
(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, and the ...
Peculiar plant could help us reconstruct ancient Earth’s climate
Smooth horsetail plants have segmented stemspiemags/nature/Alamy A strange plant that has existed since animals first walked on land can distil ...
Anticholinergics Speed Physical Decline in Older Adults
TOPLINE:Higher anticholinergic exposure was associated with accelerated decline in gait speed (-0.0132 m/s per year) and grip strength in older ...
