‘I found out I had cervical cancer while I was pregnant’
BBCDorothy Masasa is one of the thousands of women diagnosed with cervical cancer every year in MalawiDorothy Masasa happily walks ...
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ERAS Applications Are Trending Down With Program Signaling, but Still Too High
Compared to recent years, residency applicants are, on average, applying to fewer programs and paying less in the 2025 application ...
Acne Treatments Taken Right Off the Shelf Had High Levels of Benzene
Dozens of over-the-counter acne products had very high levels of the known carcinogen benzene, even when they were taken right ...
Cannabis Use in Teens, Young Adults Linked to Lower Academic Success
Cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood was linked to lower academic performance, a systematic review and meta-analysis suggested. Among ...
Can Women Living With HIV Safely Breastfeed?
The HIV reservoir in breast milk was reassuringly limited in a preliminary study on two individuals with long-term, sustained viral ...
Hormonal Contraception Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1 Carriers
Carriers of the BRCA1 cancer gene had a significantly increased risk of breast cancer if they used hormonal contraception (HC), ...
The US is ramping up bird flu surveillance – but will it be enough?
Dairy cows in CaliforniaMarmaduke St. John / Alamy Stock Photo The United States has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ...
FDA Antidepressant Warnings Tied to Increase in Suicidality
Black box warnings added to antidepressant medications on increased risk for suicidality were associated with a decline in mental health ...
Finding Humanity in Provider Burnout, and Other Stories of Perseverance
Statistics don't tell the full story of healthcare burnout, maintains Jessi Gold, MD, MS, of the University of Tennessee Health ...
AI: Could It Answer Patient Emails, or (Legitimately) Excuse You From Jury Duty?
Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 ...
U.K. Doc Admits Trying to Kill Mother’s Partner With Poison Disguised as COVID Vax
LONDON -- A British doctor on Monday admitted to trying to kill his mother's long-term partner, who stood between him ...
Coroner highlights lack of specialist ME care
Family handout/PA MediaMaeve Boothby-O’Neill died at home in Exeter in October 2021A coroner has highlighted the lack of specialist care ...
North Carolina Is Distributing Allergy Meds as Bees Swarm After Helene Flooding
Deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina has also disrupted the underground nests of yellow jackets, bees, and ...
SGLT2 Inhibitors Tied to Better Outcomes in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
BOSTON -- Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors were linked to long-term reductions in mortality risk among patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension ...
Slowing growth in life expectancy means few people will live to 100
Few people get to celebrate their 100th birthdayCometary/Getty Images/iStockphoto Will you live to 100? For the average person, the answer ...
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Civic Engagement Can Improve Community Health
Kooser, Abdelrahman, and Prabhudeva are medical students. During my (Kooser) recently completed psychiatric clinical rotation in a rural North Central ...
The Unseen Consequences of Weight Loss
Many people who lose weight, whether through diet and lifestyle changes, medication, or bariatric surgery, recognize their body has changed. ...
We were not treated as parents, Covid inquiry told
Covid InquiryTamsin Mullen was giving evidence to the Covid inquiry about the impact on maternity servicesA mother of premature twins ...
SBRT vs Hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Stage I NSCLC?
TOPLINE:Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and hypofractionated conventional radiotherapy led to similar tumor control and survival outcomes at 3 years in ...
Why Residents Are Joining Unions in Droves
Before the 350 residents finalized their union contract at the University of Vermont (UVM) Medical Center in Burlington, Vermont, in ...
