Naked Doc Investigated; Urologist Gets Life in Prison; Man Charged in Doc’s Murder
A newly released video shows Arkansas doctor David Diffine, MD, walking around his clinic nude and performing a sexual act ...
Day: November 21, 2024
Which Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Postop Radiotherapy?
TOPLINE: The Profile for the Omission of Local Adjuvant Radiation (POLAR) biomarker, a 16-gene molecular signature, can help predict locoregional recurrence ...
Vaping Linked to Higher Risk of Blurred Vision & Eye Pain
TOPLINE: Adults who use electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes/vapes) had more than double the risk for developing uveitis than nonusers, with elevated risks ...
Lung Cancer Survival Improves in US
The national survival rate for lung cancer has increased by 26% in the past 5 years, to 28.4% of all ...
Novel Therapy Reduced Liver Fat, Improved Fibrosis in MASH
Patients with biopsy-confirmed metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and fibrosis who received a novel small molecule thyroid hormone receptor agonist achieved ...
AMA in RFK Jr.’s Crosshairs; Cinnamon Bun Recall; FDA Probes PFAS in Seafood
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may seek to remove the American Medical ...
Policy Experts Split on Dr. Oz Nomination to Lead CMS
President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of cardiothoracic surgeon and former talk show host Mehmet Oz, MD, to serve as Centers for ...
Canadian Survey Reveals Sexual Harassment in Medicine
In a new Medscape survey, nearly 1 in 10 Canadian physicians said they’ve personally experienced sexual abuse, harassment, or misconduct ...
Shoulder Pain Pointers for Primary Care
The causes of shoulder pain may be as common as a traumatic injury or as rare as a systemic inflammatory ...
Deprescribe Low-Value Meds to Reduce Polypharmacy Harms
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — While polypharmacy is inevitable for patients with multiple chronic diseases, not all medications improve patient-oriented outcomes, ...
US Alcohol-Related Deaths Double in Two Decades
TOPLINE:US alcohol-related mortality rates increased from 10.7 to 21.6 per 100,000 between 1999 and 2020, with the largest rise of ...
Calgary Supervised Consumption Site Closure at an Impasse
Amid substantially rising opioid-related deaths and other harms in Canada, the city of Calgary is grappling with the potential closure ...
How to Stop Bone Loss After Denosumab? No Easy Answers
Patients who discontinue treatment with the osteoporosis drug denosumab, despite transitioning to zoledronate, show significant losses in lumbar spine bone ...
The Strange Untold Story of How Science Solved Narcolepsy
It was 1996, and Masashi Yanagisawa was on the brink of his next discovery.The Japanese scientist had arrived at the ...
Denosumab Raises Hypocalcemia Risk in Chronic Kidney Disease
TOPLINE:Denosumab treatment for osteoporosis raises the risk for hypocalcemia, which worsens with advancing stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD), in ...
Side Effects of GLP-1 Drugs: What Doctors Should Know
Just a few years after some TikTok videos spiked the demand, one in eight US adults has tried Ozempic (semaglutide) ...
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Proves Effective in Refractory RA
WASHINGTON — An implantable vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device effectively treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients who ...
New Tools Address Older Patients’ Well-Being in Healthcare
Could assessing the well-being of older patients create better treatment plans?Researchers with the US Department of Veterans Affairs posit that ...
What Kind of Support Do Canada’s Rural Physicians Need?
Physicians who choose to practice in remote and rural areas of Canada need considerably more support, including the ability to ...
‘Watershed Moment’: Semaglutide Effective in MASH
SAN DEIGO — Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, appears to safely and effectively treat metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis ...
