Ambulance crews ‘faced crucial delays’ putting on PPE in Covid
Mark TilleyMark Tilley worked as an ambulance technician in south-east England through the first two waves of the pandemicAmbulance crews ...
Month: October 2024
Does Metformin Therapy Impact CVD in T2D? It’s Complicated
MADRID — Metformin is taken every day by more than 200 million people worldwide. Its value as a glucose-lowering agent ...
Steep fall in young smokers in past decade
Getty ImagesFewer than one out of every 10 young adults in the UK smoke cigarettes - a steep drop from ...
Ukraine’s Neurosurgeons Don’t ‘Just’ Perform Brain Surgery
When Russia occupied and annexed Crimea in 2014, Ukraine's neurosurgeons saw a grim preview of the full-scale war that was ...
VP Nominee Medical Records Breached; Queen Elizabeth’s Cancer; Galaxy Gas Whippets
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A number of Veterans Affairs employees improperly accessed the medical records ...
New Guidelines Emphasize Liver Care in T2D, Obesity
MADRID — Individuals with type 2 diabetes and/or obesity plus one or more metabolic risk factors are at a higher ...
Daratumumab Quadruplet Supported Transplant-Ineligible MM
In the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) who are not eligible for stem cell transplant or ...
Avoiding Common Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care
Common complaints of abdominal pain, fever, shortness of breath, or rash can signal more serious disease that should be referred ...
Does Screening Prevent Diabetic Foot Complications?
TOPLINE:National foot screening programmes for patients with diabetes began in 2004 in England and 2006 in Scotland. The number and ...
Drowned mum watched cold water swimming programme
Norfolk ConstabularyGaynor Lord's body was recovered from the River Wensum a week after she was reported missing in December 2023A ...
Hyperandrogenic PCOS and Pregnancy Outcomes
TOPLINE:Women with hyperandrogenic polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have lower pregnancy (29.9%) and live birth rates (20.1%) than those with nonhyperandrogenic ...
Doctors Seek Additional Training Due to Obesity Patient Boom
Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, professor of medicine, pediatrics & surgery, and the medical director of Obesity Medicine at Vanderbilt University School ...
Durable Responses Seen With Barzolvolimab in CSU Trial
AMSTERDAM — Patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) experienced early and sustained improvements in symptom scores on treatment with barzolvolimab, ...
WHO Recommends Maternal Shot and Antibody Therapy to Prevent RSV in Infants
(Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Tuesday recommended maternal vaccination and the use of an antibody therapy to prevent ...
Leaving Hospital Early Linked With Higher Drug Overdose Risk
Patients who leave the hospital against medical advice have a 10-fold higher risk for subsequent drug overdose in the following ...
Estetrol Reduces Bone Turnover Markers in Postmenopausal Women
CHICAGO — The levels of two bone turnover markers were significantly lower at 3 months and 1 year in postmenopausal ...
NCCRT Wins in ESCC Trial
SAN DIEGO — Neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy significantly improves survival outcomes over adjuvant sequential chemoradiotherapy (ASCRT) in patients with locally advanced ...
IMRT vs Proton Therapy for Early Prostate Cancer?
For patients with intermediate- or low-risk localized prostate cancer, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton beam therapy are both safe and ...
COVID-19 Raises Hypertension and Kidney Disease Risk in T1D
TOPLINE:For patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D), a positive test or hospitalization for COVID-19 increases the risk of developing hypertension, ...
Race Adjustments in Algorithms Boost CRC Risk Prediction
TOPLINE:Accounting for racial disparities, including in the quality of family history data, enhanced the predictive performance of a colorectal cancer ...
