Why Getting a COVID Shot During Pregnancy Is Important
Nearly 90% of babies who had to be hospitalized with COVID-19 had mothers who didn't get the vaccine while they ...
Month: October 2024
‘Physician Spending Is Not the Problem in Healthcare’: What We Heard This Week
"It's very, very clear that physician spending is not the problem in healthcare." -- Jen Brull, MD, president of the ...
Should I Prescribe Liraglutide to a 6-Year-Old Patient With Obesity if FDA Approved?
Muth is a primary care pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist. As a pediatric obesity medicine specialist, I have witnessed first-hand ...
Spiking victims ‘let down’ by emergency services
Imogen TurnbowImogen Turnbow is one of two women who have complained medical staff did not support them enough when they ...
Immunotherapy project aims to benefit more cancer patients
BBC NewsAlex Green in now in remission from his cancerAlex Green is clear - without immunotherapy, he would have died ...
This miracle tool helps non-verbal people speak. Or does it?
SuppliedTim Chan says that without the tool, he wouldn't be able to live his life to the fullestFor Tim Chan, ...
US Ships Marburg Vaccines to Rwanda After 11 Die in Outbreak
KIGALI (Reuters) - The United States government completed an initial shipment of vaccine doses and therapeutic drugs for Marburg disease ...
What Were Falls Linked With in Older Adults?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage ...
Body Roundness to Predict Cardiovascular Disease; Myopia on the Rise
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine ...
Women Should Not Have to ‘Just Deal With’ Gynecological Pain
McNally is an ob/gyn and a director of ob/gyn services for a health system. By the time patients express surprise ...
Eye and ear checks to be offered to autism students at school
BBC NewsNafsika, a teacher at the school, has been trained to carry out the hearing checksChildren and young people in ...
Timeline of Irregular Heartbeats Emerges From Close Watch of Young Binge Drinkers
Continuous rhythm monitoring showed the timeline in which heart rate and atrial tachycardias typically arise after binge drinking by young ...
Real World CAR T-Cell Therapy Outcomes ‘Favorable’ in Relapsed/Refractory Myeloma
Real-world outcomes of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma treated with the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel, ...
Doctors Cut Back on Seeing Medicare Patients as Another Pay Cut Looms
Will his independent practice be able to survive another Medicare payment cut? That's what Terre Haute, Indiana internist Pardeep Kumar, ...
EBV Screening Tied to Lower Nasopharyngeal Cancer Mortality Risk
Individuals screened for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection had a significantly lower risk of nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) mortality, a large randomized ...
NHS bosses want chippy to sell fruit and veg
There could be something fishy about this chip shop's menu if health bosses get their wayPlans for a new chippy ...
MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?
MDMA has long been used recreationally but it has faced obstacles getting approved for medical therapiesShutterstock / Couperfield “The future ...
Severe COVID in Kids | MedPage Today
It's easy to think the COVID-19 pandemic is in the rearview mirror, especially for children who are often considered at ...
Vaccines and Long COVID: What Do We Know?
Vaccines are now a key tool in preventing acute, severe COVID-19. But less is known about their effect on long ...
FDA OKs Next-Gen Cologuard Test for CRC Screening
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Exact Sciences' next-generation multitarget stool DNA (mt-sDNA) test, Cologuard Plus, for use ...
