UK draws up new disease-threat watch list
Michelle RobertsDigital health editor, BBC NewsGetty ImagesOropouche virus, spread by biting midges and some mosquitoes, is on the listThe UK ...
Doctors and charities call for ‘gonorrhoea vaccine’ roll-out
Andrew RogersBBC NewsbeatBBCMax shared his recent gonorrhoea diagnosis online and wants to end some of the stigma around the STIMax ...
Trial Data Shed Light on ALS Clinical Research
(MedPage Today) -- The phase III trial COURAGE-ALS of investigational reldesemtiv, a fast skeletal troponin activator, did not meet its ...
Different Post-CABG Meds May Help Radial Artery Graft Patency
(MedPage Today) -- With radial artery (RA) grafts still underutilized in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, at least one ...
Longer Breastfeeding May Reduce Developmental Delays in Kids
(MedPage Today) -- Breastfeeding exclusively and for longer duration were independently associated with reduced odds of developmental delays and some ...
Transperineal Biopsy Detects More Prostate Cancers Than TRUS
(MedPage Today) -- Biopsy with local anesthetic ultrasound-guided transperineal (LATP) identified more clinically significant prostate cancers than transrectal ultrasound (TRUS), ...
Trump Has New Nominee for CDC Director
(MedPage Today) -- President Trump will nominate Susan Monarez, PhD, the acting director of the CDC, to lead the agency, ...
Greater NICU Capacity Hasn’t Lowered Infant Mortality, Study Finds
(MedPage Today) -- Rising neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) capacity was not tied to lower infant mortality, a large cross-sectional ...
Telehealth Redux
(MedPage Today) -- This week, something good in healthcare that was going away actually got a reprieve. The end of ...
Floating wood could help us refreeze the Arctic seas
Sea ice coverage in the Arctic has rapidly declined due to global warmingArterra Picture Library / Alamy Modified floating wood ...
Deciding Whether Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Should Be Discontinued
(MedPage Today) -- Should multiple sclerosis (MS) patients stop disease-modifying treatment (DMT) as they get older? The answer depends on ...
Even moderate CO2 emissions could lead to 7°C of warming by 2200
Further warming will lead to more catastrophic consequences such as severe wildfiresSTR/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Even with moderate emissions of greenhouse gases, a ...
What to Do With Difficult-to-Manage Seasonal Allergies
(MedPage Today) -- When the usual methods aren't enough to control seasonal allergic rhinitis, what do you do? First off, ...
Where Is the Outrage About Nepotism in Medicine?
(MedPage Today) -- Sandwiched between my resident and another student on my third-year OB rotation, my job was simple: suction ...
This Diet Leads to Healthy Aging
Diets rich in plant-based foods and moderate amounts of animal-based foods may enhance healthy aging, a new longitudinal cohort study ...
How a surprising twist on rewilding could help settle our carbon debt
In the Țarcu mountains of Romania, a pioneering experiment is changing the atmosphere around rewilding. Starting in 2014, around 100 ...
Survival Benefit in Metastatic CRPC Study Spurs Questions on Patient Selection
(MedPage Today) -- In a recent MedPage Today video, Neeraj Agarwal, MD, of the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University ...
This Biomarker Predicts Very Long-Term JIA Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) who carried the HLA-B27 genetic marker tended to have worse long-term ...
Researchers Say the Government Tried to Erase Sexual Orientation From Their Findings
(MedPage Today) -- Two California researchers said Friday that a U.S. government health publication instructed them to remove data on ...
Astigmatism Increased in Kids After the COVID Pandemic
(MedPage Today) -- The prevalence and severity of refractive and corneal astigmatisms increased among children after the COVID-19 pandemic, a ...
