UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Exposes Dark Reality for Industry Leadership
The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson exposed a dark reality that many leaders in the healthcare industry have grown ...
Day: December 6, 2024
Women’s CVD Risk Calculations Barely Budge When Sex-Specific Variables Are Included
Female reproductive factors minimally impacted cardiovascular disease risk prediction models.Only female-specific factors as a group, not individually, were linked with ...
USDA Orders Nationwide Testing of Milk for Bird Flu
The U.S. government on Friday ordered testing of the nation's milk supply for bird flu to better monitor the spread ...
Transgender Women More Likely to Suffer Injuries Than Cisgender Women
Transgender women are more likely to experience injuries -- often to the head, face, and chest -- compared with cisgender ...
A Mystery Illness Has Killed Dozens in Congo. WHO Experts Are Now Investigating.
KINSHASA, Congo -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday it was deploying experts to investigate a mystery flu-like illness ...
‘Brain Rot’ Becomes Word of the Year
By many accounts, 2024 was a year of brain health, with researchers reporting ways to improve infant neurodevelopment and identifying ...
Experts Wrestle Over Uses of PFAS During Senate Hearing
Experts tussled over the need for stronger regulation of so-called "forever chemicals," with some Republicans and one industry-backed witness raising ...
Should Pharmaceutical Companies Sell Weight-Loss Drugs Directly to Consumers?
This story is part of a series called "Ozempic: Weighing the Risks and Benefits." It was produced in part through ...
JAK Inhibitor Comes Up Short in Phase III Crohn’s Disease Trial
An investigational oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor failed to meet most primary endpoints in a phase III trial of patients ...
Common Herbicide a Player in Neurodegeneration?
Chronic exposure to glyphosate — the most widely used herbicide globally — may be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease ...
Self-Pay, AI-Enhanced Breast Cancer Screening Detected More Cancers
Women who chose to enroll in a self-pay, artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced breast cancer screening program were more likely to have ...
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Reverses Decision to Put a Time Limit on Anesthesia
One of the country's largest health insurers reversed a change in policy Thursday after widespread outcry, saying it would not ...
Fostamatinib Fails to Improve Outcomes in Hypoxemic COVID Patients
The spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor fostamatinib (Tavalisse) did not improve outcomes in adults hospitalized with COVID-19 and hypoxemia, according to ...
Addicted to Productivity, Doc? The Holidays Are a Time to Reflect
Landry and Lewiss are emergency medicine physicians. As physicians, we are too familiar with the toll work and productivity take ...
New Clues in CEO’s Killing; Time to Worry About Disease X? Ketamine Diversions Grow
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. New clues are emerging in the hunt for the killer of ...
Kids With T1D Doing Better, But Still not Meeting Targets
TOPLINE:International paediatric type 1 diabetes (T1D) registry data show improvement from 2013 to 2022 in average A1c and the proportion ...
Infection Is the Third-Leading Cause of Death in T2D
TOPLINE:People with type 2 diabetes (T2D) die from infections at a higher rate than similar people without diabetes, and the ...
Advancing Treatment Outcomes in Multiple Myeloma
Treatment for multiple myeloma has evolved significantly, with long-term survival increasingly within reach for many patients. Achieving optimal outcomes requires ...
Physicians Offer Little Sympathy for Slain Insurance CEO
Many physicians reacted with the opposite of sympathy to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this week, reflecting ...
New Cancer Vaccines on the Horizon: Renewed Hope or Hype?
Vaccines for treating and preventing cancer have long been considered a holy grail in oncology.But aside from a few notable ...
