Hearing Loss May Signal Early Parkinson’s Disease
Hearing loss was linked with higher Parkinson's disease risk.Severity of hearing loss was tied to incident Parkinson's in a dose-dependent ...
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Three Cycles of Chemo Noninferior to Six for Rare Childhood Eye Cancer
A shorter regimen of three cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy was noninferior to a standard six-cycle regimen among patients with pathologically ...
How Do Younger People Fare With Stool Tests for CRC Screening?
When given the option, patients ages 45-49 completed colorectal cancer (CRC) screening via fecal immunochemical test (FIT) at about the ...
New Strategies for Geographic Atrophy Show Early Promise
CHICAGO -- An investigational dual-action inhibitor for geographic atrophy (GA) significantly slowed disease progression and improved visual acuity after 3 ...
Few Teens Regret Gender-Affirming Medical Care, Survey Shows
Most adolescents who started gender-affirming medical care didn't regret it, according to survey responses from participants in the Trans Youth ...
Novel At-Home Test Diagnoses STIs With ‘Lab-Equivalent’ Accuracy
A novel at-home molecular test proved highly accurate for diagnosing three common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in females, according to ...
Baxter Aims to Restore New Dialysis Patient Access to Pre-hurricane Levels by Year-end
(Reuters) - Baxter International on Monday said that it aims to restore the number of new patients able to begin ...
Workers at 7 CVS Pharmacies in California Strike for Better Pay and Healthcare
Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and healthcare and to protest ...
Jokey reform ideas removed from NHS consultation website
Some members of the public have not taken Health Secretary Wes Streeting's call for new ideas to improve the health ...
Hundreds More Infants Died After Dobbs Ruling
Nationwide, infant mortality was higher than expected in the months that followed the Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women's ...
Hey Trump: It’s Time to Release Your Medical Records
Andrews is a pediatrician. I often tell medical students and residents that you can determine much of what you need ...
The Myth of the Comprehensive 20-Minute Visit
Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 ...
Potentially Large Cost Savings With Home-Based OCT for Neovascular AMD
CHICAGO -- An artificial intelligence (AI)-based study of home monitoring for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) suggested a potential annual ...
Cutting Sugar May Reduce Your Diabetes, Stroke, and Depression Risk
Share on PinterestEating a diet high in sugar is linked with several increased risks, including depression, type 2 diabetes, and ...
US Contraceptive Users Favor Alternative Sources
TOPLINE:Individuals using contraceptive pills, patches, and rings must frequently interact with the healthcare system for continued use. More than half ...
Daily Oral Edaravone for ALS No Better Than On/Off Regimen
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Daily oral edaravone (Radicava ORS) was not superior to the FDA-approved on/off regimen in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...
Psychologist Behind the ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’ Dies at 91
Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" that was intended to examine the psychological experiences ...
How Are Doctors Using Tirzepatide vs Semaglutide? A Q&A
When prescribing glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) medications, many physicians prefer tirzepatide over the more well-known semaglutide due to its superior ...
Stroke Prevention Guideline Adds Recs for GLP-1 Drugs, Gender-Affirming Care
The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association updated guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke, emphasizing primary care ...
Late ED Doc’s Secret Life; Flesh-Eating Bacteria in Florida; COVID Vaccine Lawsuit
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. New details on John Forsyth, MD, the Missouri emergency medicine doctor ...
