How Wildfire Smoke May Harm Brain Health
A growing body of research suggests that exposure to wildfire smoke can have detrimental effects not only on the heart ...
Month: December 2024
Vitamin D3 Does Not Reduce T2D Risk in Healthy Seniors
TOPLINE:Long-term daily supplementation with moderate (1600 international units ) or high (3200 IU) doses of vitamin D3 doesn’t reduce the ...
Congress Adjourns Without Easing Medicare Doc Pay Cut
Congress abandoned plans to ease 2025 Medicare payment cuts for clinicians in its stopgap spending bill, frustrating physicians who’ve long ...
Microplastics Pose Risks to Lungs
When Laura Sadofsky, PhD, a senior lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Hull, Hull, England, began looking at ...
Management of Children and Adolescents With Long-COVID
Current management of children and adolescents with long-COVID was the focus of various presentations at the 3rd Long-COVID Congress in ...
New Treatment Hopes for Vitiligo
Advances in understanding the pathophysiology of vitiligo are transforming patient management, offering new hope for individuals with mild, moderate, and ...
Soaring Pacemaker Demand Spurs Controversial New Approach
CHICAGO — When a female patient received a pacemaker at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan, Ann ...
Self-Guided Online CBT Matches Clinician-Aided CBT for AD
TOPLINE:A brief self-guided online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) intervention was noninferior to comprehensive clinician-guided CBT in reducing symptoms in patients ...
What to Do When Your Patient Has Illness Anxiety Disorder
You needn’t be a digital native to appreciate the wonders of the internet. You’ve undoubtedly had plenty of patients who ...
US Sees Rise in Life Expectancy After Pandemic Decline
COVID-19 continues to retreat from being a top cause of death in the US, and in turn, life expectancy last ...
Proteins in Plasma Linked to MI, Especially for Women
Forty-five circulating proteins in plasma are linked to the risk for myocardial infarction (MI), showed a new study that confirms ...
ART Use Rises Among US Medicare Enrollees Living With HIV
TOPLINE: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) prescription rates among Medicare enrollees living with HIV increased from 2007 to 2019. Although age-based disparities had ...
Coffee, Tea Tied to Lower Risk of Head and Neck Cancer
In the latest statistical salvo of an ongoing debate, people who consumed more than four cups of caffeinated coffee daily ...
NSAIDs Triple Time to Conception in Women With SpA
TOPLINE:Subfertility is common in women with spondyloarthritis (SpA), with factors such as older age and use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ...
Novel JAK1 Inhibitor Hits the Mark in Arthritis Trial
TOPLINE:Ivarmacitinib, a novel Janus kinase 1 inhibitor, alleviates symptoms, reduces disease activity, and improves physical function and quality of life ...
Immunotherapy Timing in Early-Stage NSCLC?
Do patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) benefit from continuing immunotherapy beyond surgery?The short answer: Oncologists don't know ...
Cash Is King — For Some Doctors
Once upon a time, patients would routinely arrive at your office with cash in hand.It looks like what’s old might ...
‘My surgeon saved my smile with hologram technology’
Susannah MorganSusannah Morgan woke up from surgery with temporary paralysis of her faceWhen Susannah Morgan learned that an operation to ...
Royal Papworth Hospital ‘lungs in a box’ could boost transplants
Royal Papworth HospitalThe machine, nicknamed "lungs in a box", is designed to mimic the human bodyA new machine which keeps ...
Low-Dose Hypobaric Anesthesia Shows Promise in Arthroplasty
TOPLINE:Low-dose hypobaric mepivacaine and bupivacaine provide adequate spinal anesthesia for hip and knee arthroplasty, with 93% of patients completing surgery ...
