USPSTF Plans Changes to Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) plans to add self-collected human papillomavirus (HPV) testing to its recommendations for cervical ...
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Generous Blood Transfusions Not Beneficial for Some With Burst Brain Aneurysms
For people with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and anemia, there was no significant neurological benefit from getting red blood cell transfusions ...
State ‘Gold Card’ Laws Sound Good — But Are They Working?
Have you wished you could be exempt from prior authorizations, especially because your procedures or prescriptions are almost always approved? ...
More Beans, Less Red Meat: Nutritionists Weigh in on U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Americans should eat more beans, peas, and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables, all ...
Some Kratom Products Contain Lead at Dangerous Levels for Children
NEW ORLEANS -- A large portion of products made with the herbal supplement kratom contained more lead than is safe ...
HEARTS Act Gets Senate Vote; New Myocarditis Classes; Aftermath of PAD Device Scare
The office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that this week he will bring the HEARTS Act, the ...
Brain Aging Biomarkers; Midlife Anxiety and Dementia Risk; Who Chose Assisted Dying?
Researchers identified 13 proteins that predicted how quickly or slowly a person's brain aged. (Nature Aging) Midlife anxiety was common ...
Benefits of Transplant for Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Add Up a Decade Later
SAN DIEGO -- Kids with sickle cell disease who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) had fewer serious disease complications ...
Half-Truths, Big Risks: The Dangers of an Incomplete Medical History
Bitterman is an orthopedic surgeon. Honesty is the lifeblood of the doctor-patient relationship. Without it, even the most skilled physician ...
Transplantation Fails to Improve Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
SAN DIEGO -- Patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) after induction therapy did not ...
Arrhythmia Risk of Lamotrigine Questioned by Observational Data
LOS ANGELES -- The FDA's warning about arrhythmia risk with lamotrigine (Lamictal) based on in vitro data wasn't borne out ...
Lentiviral Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Severe Hemophilia A
SAN DIEGO -- Results from a small single-center study showed that treatment with a gene therapy involving the use of ...
What Happened to the Canadian Teen Who Became Critically Ill With H5N1 Bird Flu?
Canadian public health officials closed their investigation into the teenager who became critically ill with the H5N1 bird flu virus, ...
Masking Policies Show Clear Impact on Hospital-Onset Respiratory Infections
In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Theodore Pak, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, discusses the findings from ...
Year in Review: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Developments in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) this year included the first CAR T-cell therapy approval for the chronic blood cancer, ...
Alecensa (alectinib) Offers Hope for Certain Patients With ALK Positive NSCLC
When Matt was diagnosed with ALK-positive (ALK+) metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC), his world turned upside down. It's a ...
I Am Torn: Grappling With the Killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
Young is a family medicine physician and nocturnist. I am torn. I have the devil whispering in one ear, telling ...
Cardiorespiratory Fitness May Lower Your Risk of Dementia
Share on PinterestBetter cardiorespiratory fitness translates to better cognitive health outcomes in older adults, according to new research. andreswd/Getty ImagesCardiorespiratory ...
Empathetic Phone Calls Help Vulnerable Diabetes Patients Lower HbA1c
Empathy-oriented phone calls from laypersons helped patients with uncontrolled diabetes improve glycemic control, a parallel-arm superiority trial found. Among 260 ...
AI Screening of Home Videos Proves Accurate for Infantile Seizure Detection
LOS ANGELES -- An artificial intelligence (AI) model accurately detected and ruled out infantile epileptic spasm syndrome in videos captured ...
