Does Vitamin D Affect Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
TOPLINE:Vitamin D deficiency is common in children with severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and is associated with increased OSA severity. ...
Month: October 2024
Breast surgeon Ian Paterson tells inquest it would be crazy to leave behind tissue
It would be "crazy" to leave breast tissue behind during a mastectomy, a disgraced breast surgeon has told an inquest ...
First U.S. Case of Bird Flu in a Pig Raises Concerns Over Threat to Humans
A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Wednesday. ...
Six Networking Strategies for Introverted Healthcare Professionals
Networking is a professional skill that healthcare professionals, such as physicians, can learn. Although extroverts may seem more naturally suited ...
Ex-Gov. May Face Charges Over COVID; Autism Dx Up 175%; Can Fasting Help Kidneys?
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The Republican-led House COVID panel referred former New York Gov. Andrew ...
Warning tax rises could force care homes to close
Getty ImagesThe Liberal Democrats have called on the government to exempt social care from the rise in National Insurance. The ...
Oncologist Charged With the Illegal Sale of Cancer Drugs
In late October, a federal grand jury charged a Detroit-area medical oncologist Naveed Aslam, MD, in an indictment for his ...
Organ Preservation Riskier in Rectal Cancer
TOPLINE:Patients with rectal cancer managed by watch and wait and subsequent local regrowth have a higher risk for distant metastases ...
Walking Pneumonia Is on the Rise
Young children are increasingly being infected with bacteria that can lead to the illness known as walking pneumonia. A hallmark ...
US Autism Diagnoses Rose 175% From 2011 to 2022
TOPLINE:US diagnosis rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) increased by 175% from 2011 to 2022, a new study shows. Prevalence ...
Mother says NHS failed to give daughter safe care
PA MediaDonna Ockenden says the NHS failed to provide safe care for her daughter Phoebe when she was rushed to ...
Coinfection Fails to Affect Babesia Outcomes
Adults with Babesia who were coinfected with tick-borne zoonoses showed no increased risk for mortality or disease severity than those ...
Hemophilia B: Gene Therapy Shows Promise
TOPLINE:Fidanacogene elaparvovec gene therapy reduced the annualized bleeding rate by 71% in patients with hemophilia B. Factor IX activity levels ...
When Your Malpractice Insurer Investigates You: What to Know
When psychiatrist Paul Sartain, MD (not his real name), received a letter from his state’s medical board, he was concerned. ...
Trastuzumab Duocarmazine Tried in HER2+ Breast Cancer
TOPLINE:Trastuzumab duocarmazine (T-Duo) improved progression-free survival to 7.0 months compared with 4.9 months with a physician’s choice in advanced human ...
Chronic Cough Patients Report Relief With Semen Strychni
If standard therapies don’t give relief to patients with refractory cough associated with interstitial lung disease, maybe a little poison ...
Rethink Race-Based Adjustments in Clinical Tools
New guidelines are out for researchers and others for how to use information about race and ethnicity in biomedical research, ...
Iberdomide Promising for Cutaneous Lupus in Phase 2 Study
TOPLINE:Patients with cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) experienced improved symptoms with iberdomide, a cereblon modulator, added to standard lupus medications, particularly ...
Vitamin D Aids Bones in Erythropoietic Protoporphyria
TOPLINE:Patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) have a higher prevalence of low bone mineral density (BMD) than the general healthy population, ...
GLP-1 Use Presurgery Safe but No Weight Loss Boost
Use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) prior to bariatric surgery was safe but wasn’t associated with greater ...
