HCPs Reflect on 2024; NYE Count Down by Specialty; How to Avoid Norovirus
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Month: January 2025
Jury Awards Doc $21M; Doc Accused of Using Job Recruitment for Rape; Nurse Wins $2M
Former Seattle Children's physician Benjamin Danielson, MD, won $21 million in a racial discrimination case he filed last year. (Seattle ...
AZD0486 Shows Good Efficacy in Relapsed/Refractory Follicular Lymphoma
At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting, data from a phase I trial of AZD0486 -- a ...
Glutamatergic Medications Show Promise for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Glutamatergic medications showed promise in treating obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), especially obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a systematic review and meta-analysis ...
Docs Worry Not Enough Known About GLP-1s and Teens
About 20% of adolescents have obesity, a figure that is expected to rise over the next few decades. And while ...
Concerns Continue Over Private Equity’s Reach Into Healthcare
In September, we reported on a Senate hearing that focused on the impact that Steward Health Care's greed and mismanagement ...
Broccoli Warning Issued; Dr. Oz vs RFK Jr. on Ozempic; Is Moderate Drinking Safe?
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The FDA spread the warning from Braga Fresh that certain bags ...
Amber health alerts issued ahead of snow forecast
PA MediaParts of northern England and Scotland have already seen snowfall this weekTemperatures have dropped as colder arctic air spreads ...
Base Treatment Decisions in Metastatic Breast Cancer on Presence of ESR1 Mutations
In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Virginia Kaklamani, MD, DSc, of UT Health Sciences Center in San Antonio and co-director ...
Workplace Culture Trumps Pay for Most Internists: Survey
Only about 1 in 6 internal medicine specialists believe their compensation is more important than workplace culture, according to the ...
Excessive Crystalloid Use Increases Mortality in Trauma
TOPLINE: A study has shown that administering ≥ 2 L of crystalloids during the prehospital and emergency department phases of treatment ...
Combined Psoriasis/PsA Clinics: Potential and Pitfalls
NEW YORK — The idea of having dermatologists and rheumatologists under one roof to see patients with psoriasis prone to ...
Exposure to Dioxins May Increase Obesity Risk
TOPLINE:Combined exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs) is significantly associated with an increased risk for obesity in adults, ...
Exercising Longer May Boost Weight Loss, Meta-Analysis Shows
TOPLINE:Aerobic exercise shows a linear relationship with weight loss, with 30 minutes of weekly exercise linked to reduced body weight, ...
Broomfield Hospital visits severely restricted amid flu spike
Stuart Woodward/BBCBroomfield Hospital said it took the decision "to protect our patients"Visits have been severely restricted at a hospital battling ...
RSV Vaccine Protects Older Adults From Severe Disease
TOPLINE:Respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F (RSVpreF) vaccine significantly reduced severe RSV-related lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) requiring hospitalization or emergency ...
Teen Lungs Thrive With Prompt HIV Care in Childhood
TOPLINE:Early antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation in children with perinatal HIV (CHIV) preserves lung function into the second decade of life, ...
Imipenem-Cilastatin-Relebactam, the New Go-To for Pneumonia?
Imipenem-cilastatin-relebactam matches piperacillin-tazobactam for hospital- or ventilator-acquired bacterial pneumonia, with similar safety, supporting use in areas with high multidrug resistance. ...
In HCV, Starting Treatment Trumps Staging for Liver Fibrosis
When managing patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV), initiating treatment of the infection promptly is more important than determining the ...
TNF Inhibitors Ward Off Fracture in Axial Spondyloarthritis
TOPLINE:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors protect patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) from hip and spine fractures better than other drugs.METHODOLOGY:Large ...
