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The CQC will assess care delivered in hospital corridors as inspectors respond to growing safety concerns over non-clinical treatment spaces. ...

PCPs Slow to Use Inhibitors for Nondiabetic Heart Failure

While proven to help, primary care clinicians have been slow to use the drugs once considered only for patients with ...

The mystery of nuclear ‘magic numbers’ has finally been resolved

Some atoms seem to be particularly stable because of their numbers of protons and neutronsShutterstock/ktsdesign A special set of numbers ...

Risk-Reducing Mastectomy, Surveillance Lead to Similar Survival in BRCA Carriers

(MedPage Today) -- Carriers of BRCA pathogenic variants had similar breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) and overall survival (OS) whether they ...

Brain Rot in Medical Education

(MedPage Today) -- Medical education is once again in the midst of a technological inflection point. Large language models (LLMs) ...

We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It ...

The psychedelic DMT reduces depression symptoms after just one dose

Psychedelics may enable the brain to form new connectionswildpixel/Getty Images A single dose of the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT) had ...

Prophylactic Acetaminophen No Help for Heart Defect in Extreme Preemies

(MedPage Today) -- Prophylactic acetaminophen within 12 hours of birth for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in extremely preterm infants failed ...

Intervention Urging Earlier HPV Shots Linked to Better Initiation, Completion Rates

(MedPage Today) -- Use of a best practice alert in the electronic health record (EHR) combined with a clinician education ...

Mortality Up for Medicare Beneficiaries During Late COVID-19

Medicare beneficiaries with cardiovascular disease or risk factors had increased mortality rates and fewer hospitalizations in the later stages of ...

RFK Jr. Pledged More Transparency. Here’s What the Public Doesn’t Know Anymore.

(MedPage Today) -- A year ago, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wanted to rebuild trust in federal ...

Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds

But researchers say it could still improve someone's overall health through helpful changes to some body functions. Source link : ...

Acanthosis Nigricans: Variant Responds to Targeted Therapy

Early identification of the EGFR L858R variant in syndromic acanthosis enables effective treatment of skin and pulmonary manifestations, according to ...

Measles Spreading in North-East London Schools

A major measles outbreak in north-east London has hospitalised children and exposed low vaccination uptake in parts of Enfield. Press ...

The ‘Extremely Risky’ Trend Doctors Should Watch For

What to know about ‘looksmaxxing,’ an online wave that encourages unproven practices and black market substances to achieve hypermasculine features. ...

Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why

The human chin is an evolutionary oddityWestend61/Getty Images Humans are the only primates with a chin, leaving biologists to wonder ...

Measles outbreak could see unvaccinated pupils excluded from schools in north London

Children identified as close contacts of people with the disease could be excluded for three weeks Source link : https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99jyexve1jo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss ...

Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update

Heat normally flows from hot to coldklyaksun/Shutterstock A forgotten cup of coffee will gradually cool down as its heat flows ...

Can we ever know the shape of the universe?