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 ...
Month: December 2024
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 ...
How Bird Flu Spread Unchecked, Posing a Pandemic Risk
Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in ...
Doctors issue warning over water bead Christmas gifts for children
Emergency doctors in the UK have issued a safety warning over water beads, which could be given to children as ...
‘Everyone Knows Surgeons Brag About Having Steady Hands’: What We Heard This Week
"Everyone knows surgeons brag about having steady hands, so we decided to put this to the test." -- Michael Drozd, ...
My Medical AI Holiday Wish List
Mary Meyer MD, MPH, is an emergency physician with The Permanente Medical Group. She also holds a Master of Public ...
Gene Therapy Shows Long-Term Vision Benefits in Rare Eye Disease
Patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) due to the MT-ND4 gene variant treated with the gene therapy lenadogene nolparvovec ...
What Did New Data Show About Drinking Wine?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage ...
Electronic Sepsis Alerts; Reducing Plaques in Coronary Arteries
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine ...
From Book Burnings to Data Deletions: Safeguarding Health Info in the Digital Age
Cerceo is an academic hospitalist and environmental health advocate. With the new administration taking office next month, there is a ...
TikTok’s Beef Tallow Skin Care Hack: Does It Work?
Share on PinterestPeople on TikTok are claiming that beef tallow (animal fat) is an effective facial moisturizer that can help ...
Next-in-Class Once-Daily Pill Approved for Cystic Fibrosis
The FDA approved a once-daily oral combination of vanzacaftor/tezacaftor/deutivacaftor (Alyftrek) for cystic fibrosis (CF) in adults and children 6 years ...
FDA Approves First Sleep Apnea Drug
The FDA approved tirzepatide (Zepbound) for adults with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and obesity, the agency announced late Friday. ...
