Air conditioners may help prevent heatwaves from causing accelerated ageingSajjad HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images Sweltering heatwaves can have lasting health impacts – accumulated exposure to hot-weather days appears to accelerate...

One reason fewer calories are reaching people’s plates is the use of palm oil for biodieselAugustine Bin Jumat/Shutterstock The world produced enough calories in 2020 to feed 15 billion people...

Professors Cath Noakes and Richard Fitton explain how dehumidifiers combat mould and why it's crucial to put them in the right place to be effective. Source link : https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ckge9kpwy4zo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss Author...

(MedPage Today) -- Total marketing payments for stimulants to physicians and advanced practice clinicians (APCs) sharply increased in recent years, researchers found. From 2021 to 2023, stimulant marketing payments to...

(MedPage Today) -- Our understanding of the interconnectedness among cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic conditions has grown significantly, leading to advances in diagnosis and management. Boehringer Ingelheim's Dr. Neerja Balachander, Ph.D.......

(MedPage Today) -- HHS has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights, according to a union that called the effort illegal. HHS officials...

DNA evidence indicates that a skull unearthed in Harbin, China, belonged to a DenisovanHebei GEO University One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010,...

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Against the wishes of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Canadian court ruled that 400 ostriches at...

Canada’s new methadone-prescribing guidance has influenced clinicians’ practice, new data suggest.The publication of the guidance was associated with higher starting doses of methadone and a decrease in monotherapy. The provision...

TOPLINE:Switching to oral antibiotic therapy after initial intravenous treatment matched the efficacy of exclusive intravenous treatment for infective endocarditis, with no increase seen in treatment failure rates and a median...

TOPLINE:Clinical assessment combined with musculoskeletal ultrasound examination revealed distinct phenotypes in difficult-to-treat psoriatic arthritis (PsA), with a greater inflammatory burden and more aggressive disease being observed in those with persistent...

TOPLINE:In a study of BRCA carriers diagnosed with breast cancer during pregnancy, 36.6% successfully had subsequent pregnancies, with no concerning signals seen for maternal prognosis. Patients who conceived were typically...

TOPLINE:Iscalimab, a novel anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody, showed efficacy in lupus nephritis (LN) by reducing proteinuria at 24 weeks compared with placebo. The treatment was generally well tolerated, with most adverse...

TOPLINE:A geriatric assessment-guided intervention with supportive care (GAIN-S) enhanced emotional and adaptive domains of prognostic awareness in older adults with metastatic cancer, with mean differences of 1.14 and 0.82, respectively,...

Routine use of artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to a loss of skills among clinicians who perform colonoscopies, thereby affecting patient outcomes, a large observational study suggested.“The extent and consistency...

TOPLINE:Among adults with a diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis (PsA), those on combination targeted therapy did not have a significantly increased risk for serious bacterial infection or opportunistic infection compared with...

Although germicidal ultraviolet lights do not reduce the incidence rates of respiratory infections, they can reduce the overall number of infections among seniors in long-term care facilities. Medscape Medical News...

TOPLINE: A meta-analysis found higher prevalence rates of autoimmune comorbidities, particularly thyroid disease, alopecia areata, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes in adults with vitiligo.METHODOLOGY:Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of eight observational...

Factors like housing and socioeconomic status affect health outcomes for asthmatic children. Medscape Medical News Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/back-school-asthma-attacks-more-common-low-income-2025a1000mbn?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2025-08-25 09:06:00 Copyright for syndicated content...

TOPLINE:Genome-wide CRISPR screens in primary human natural killer (NK) cells identified critical checkpoints regulating resistance to immunosuppressive pressures in the tumor microenvironment. Targeted knockout of MED12, ARIH2, and CCNC enhanced...