Covid corruption commissioner gets to work
The new Covid corruption commissioner has started an investigation into personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud.Tom Hayhoe's first task will be ...
Day: December 2, 2024
Consider All Prior Fractures During Osteoporosis Assessment, Study Suggests
Fractures that occurred at any prior time in adulthood were associated with fracture risk in older adults, a cohort study ...
Long List of Tasks Awaits New CDC Director, Experts Say
Former representative Dave Weldon, MD (R-Fla.), President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the CDC, will have his work cut out ...
Beta-Blockers Tied to Delayed Huntington’s Disease Progression
Beta-blocker use was tied with slower symptom progression in people with early motor-manifest Huntington's disease.In a people with genetically confirmed ...
Drug Prices Negotiated by Medicare Still Higher Than Other Countries’
Prices for the first 10 drugs negotiated by Medicare fell from their initial net prices, but all drugs except one ...
Study: Patients Better Be Very Literate to Understand These Handouts
Patient education materials (PEMs) in rheumatology and general medicine demanded greater literacy than is typically recommended, researchers found. Handouts from ...
Fat in the Belly Correlates With Brain Amyloid
Higher levels of visceral fat were correlated with more amyloid plaque in the brains of cognitively normal individuals, according to ...
Indoor Air Purification Improved Pulmonary Health in Kids
Indoor air purification improved pulmonary health markers among children living in a region with severe air pollution, a cluster randomized ...
Myelofibrosis: Transformation to Leukemia | MedPage Today
A subset of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) -- clonal disorders of hematopoietic stem cells that include polycythemia vera and ...
Fauci Facepalms Won’t Cut It in the Second Trump Administration
Oxman is an intensive care physician and associate professor of medicine. It was one of the more memorable images of ...
What If…? | MedPage Today
Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 ...
Novel Therapies for Asthma in the Pipeline
In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Michael E. Wechsler, MD, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health in Denver, discusses some ...
When, and where, did the covid-19 pandemic really begin?
People carrying out disinfection work at a market in Wuhan, where covid-19 is thought to have originated, in March 2020An ...
The Supreme Court Takes Up Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and ...
A Twice-Yearly Shot Could Help End AIDS. But Will It Get to Everyone Who Needs It?
It's been called the closest the world has ever come to a vaccine against HIV. The twice-yearly shot was 100% ...
HIV Doesn’t Cause AIDS and Other Conspiracies RFK Jr. Endorsed
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views on vaccines are well known, but the environmental lawyer tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to ...
Year in Review: Multiple Myeloma
Advances in multiple myeloma treatment this year were marked by the resurrection of a drug that had been previously pulled ...
Doc Murdered 8 Patients? RFK Jr. Will ‘Cost Lives’; $412M in Penile Injection Case
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A palliative care physician in Germany is suspected of murdering eight ...
Eating More Plant Than Animal Protein May Reduce Risk
Share on PinterestRegularly eating more plant-based than animal protein may significantly lower your cardiovascular and coronary heart disease risk. Zoryana ...
Novocure’s Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Meets Main Goal in Late-stage Study
(Reuters) - Novocure said on Monday its experimental therapy extended the lives of patients with a form of advanced pancreatic ...
