Month: January 2025

TOPLINE:A systematic analysis revealed eight distinct symptom clusters in patients with kidney failure, with gastrointestinal problems being the most frequent. ...

Stockton mum’s vaccine plea after losing baby to flu

Meg HughesUntil he caught flu, Louie Hughes had been thriving since being born at just 26 weeks A mother is ...

Intensive Psychiatric Home Care May Cut Hospital Readmission

TOPLINE:Intensive home treatment after a psychiatric crisis is linked to 18% lower readmission rates over 12 months than standard psychiatric ...

Adding Mobile App to Medication for OUD May Improve Outcomes

TOPLINE:Augmenting medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with smartphone app–based contingency management (CM) was associated with a 30% reduction in ...

Brain Changes in Youth Who Use Substances: Cause or Effect?

A widely accepted assumption in the addiction field is that neuroanatomical changes observed in young people who use alcohol or ...

National Care Service plans in pipeline for 2028, say ministers

Getty ImagesProposals on the long-term funding of adult social care in England are unlikely to be delivered before 2028 at ...

Enthusiasm for Transplant-Free Strategies for Low-Risk Relapsed Hodgkin Lymphoma

Non-transplant salvage therapy for low-risk relapsed/refractory pediatric classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) had high rates of progression-free (PFS) and overall survival ...

5 Things We Know and Still Don’t Know About COVID, 5 Years After It Appeared

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the ...

ABIM Revokes Certification of Another Doctor Who Made Controversial COVID Claims

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) revoked the board certification of Peter McCullough, MD, MPH, a cardiologist who promoted ...

Worse Outcomes After Esophagectomy at Private Equity-Owned Hospitals

Esophagectomy outcomes trended in the wrong direction at hospitals owned by private-equity companies, a review of more than 9,000 cases ...

Durable Improvement in Rheumatic Pain, Health Seen With Brief Lifestyle Program

A comprehensive lifestyle-improvement program -- delivered entirely online -- helped patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA), osteoarthritis (OA), and fibromyalgia enjoy ...

Lilly Asks to Join Lawsuit Over Compounded Versions Of Its Weight-loss Drugs

(Reuters) - Eli Lilly has asked to join in opposing a lawsuit brought by compounding pharmacies against the U.S. Food ...

Psychedelic Therapy Begins in Colorado, Amid Tension Between Conservatives, Veterans

As Colorado becomes the second state to legalize psychedelic therapy this week, a clash is playing out in Colorado Springs, ...

HCPs Reflect on 2024; NYE Count Down by Specialty; How to Avoid Norovirus

The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. As 2024 came to ...

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