Policy Experts Weigh Healthcare Elements of GOP Platform
Earlier this week, the Republican party released its 2024 policy platform, which provides a glimpse of what the nation's healthcare ...
Day: July 12, 2024
Sen. Klobuchar Says She’s Cancer-Free but Will Get Radiation for Small Calcification
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said Friday that she remains cancer-free following her bout with breast cancer ...
Novel Goalpost for PCI Excellence Is Borrowed From the Surgeons
Researchers made a case for failure to rescue (FTR) as a potential quality metric in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), using ...
Model Predicts Personalized Alzheimer’s Progression
A model to predict individual cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease was developed.The predictions can give patients a general indication of ...
Mediterranean Diet Good for Kids, Teens Too
The Mediterranean diet improved cardiometabolic health among kids and teens, a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials affirmed. Interventions following the ...
Don’t Try ARBs for Severe COVID, Trial Indicates
The angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) losartan led to hypotension and failed to improve mortality in patients hospitalized for acute COVID-19, ...
A First in Total Larynx Transplant; ‘Sniffing’ Out Lung Cancer; Gen X Cancer Toll
A surgical team at Mayo Clinic Arizona in Phoenix performed the first total larynx transplant in an active cancer patient ...
Cytomegalovirus Shown to Cause Glioblastoma
Human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) is part of the Herpesviridae family. It infects nearly half of the French population. Once infected, individuals ...
EMA Warns of Anaphylactic Reactions to MS Drug
Healthcare professionals in the European Union are to be issued with advice about the risk for anaphylactic reactions in patients ...
Immunotherapy Combo Active in Advanced PD-L1-Negative HNSCC
A chemotherapy-free regimen combining the investigational therapy eftilagimod alpha with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) showed promising efficacy in a small cohort of ...
Be Aware of Aspiration Risk With Anesthesia on GLP-1 RAs
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued new recommendations for patients taking glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) who ...
Night Owl or Lark? The Answer May Affect Cognition
Individuals who are more active in the evening performed better on cognitive tests than did those who are typically more ...
Prescribing Epilepsy Meds in Pregnancy: ‘We Can Do Better’
HELSINKI, Finland — When it comes to caring for women with epilepsy who become pregnant, there is a great deal ...
Your pupils change size as you breathe
Pupil size can help diagnose conditions such as concussionIrina Shilnikova/Getty Images The size of our pupils fluctuates as we breathe. ...
Thousands of Oregon Hospital Patients May Have Been Exposed to Infectious Diseases
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- More than 2,400 patients at hospitals around Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to infectious diseases ...
Current Approaches to Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
Precancerous, or smoldering, multiple myeloma (SMM) is by definition an asymptomatic disease, and about 50% of those diagnosed with this ...
The Hardest I’ve Cried | MedPage Today
Thomas is a hospitalist in New York State. On November 28, 2021, scrolling through Twitter (now X, I suppose), I ...
Spicy Chip Death Lawsuit; Gen X and Cancer; Extreme U.S. Temperatures
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A lawsuit was filed in the case of a Massachusetts teen ...
Bacteremia in NICU Linked to Increased Mortality Risk
TOPLINE:Hospital-onset bacteremia (HOB) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is associated with increased mortality, according to a study that ...
Major Shift in the Clinical Definition of PD Triggers Debate
Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies are currently defined by clinical features, which can be heterogeneous and do ...
