Two NHS hospital trusts in London are using AI technology to see if they can spot type 2 diabetes in patients up to a decade in advance of the condition...

NEW YORK — Rheumatologists, dermatologists, drug manufacturers, and researchers do not pay enough attention to the role sex and gender play in the pathogenesis and presentation of psoriatic arthritis (PsA),...

TOPLINE:Older adults with mild cognitive impairment or memory concerns increased their physical activity by an average of 65 minutes per week 6 months after completing home-based training in Tai Ji...

TOPLINE:Among 20.1 million women aged 40-49 years, only 59.2% underwent biennial mammography screening, with significantly lower rates observed in racial and ethnic minority populations, sexual minority populations, and socioeconomically disadvantaged...

Edward W. Cowen, MD, MHSc, senior clinician at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, leads the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Dermatology Consultation Service, conducts independent...

TOPLINE:Approximately 3% of adults in the United States have psoriasis, with a higher prevalence among older adults, individuals with overweight or obesity, and non-Hispanic White individuals, according to the results...

NHS website information on drinking while breastfeeding saw the highest increase in visits at Christmas last year, new figures show. Among the most visited pages on Christmas and Boxing Day...

TOPLINE:Simultaneous screening for liver fibrosis during retinal scanning shows promise as a novel pathway for detecting advanced liver disease in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).METHODOLOGY:International guidelines recommend screening for...

LOS ANGELES — An open-source artificial intelligence (AI) module can help identify epileptic lesions on MRI missed by human reviewers, including both focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) and hippocampal sclerosis, according...

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were tied to higher risks of new-onset neurologic conditions later in life.Women with eclampsia had a five-times higher risk of developing epilepsy.Migraine risk rose for women...

Biomarker-driven treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) led to a 2-year metastasis-free survival (MFS) rate that exceeded 70% in a phase II study, but failed to meet prespecified statistical constraints...

Recently, omission of axillary lymph node dissection among patients with early breast cancer has been found to have no detrimental effect on outcomes in most cases, continuing a trend toward...

Opponents of abortion are increasingly focusing on restricting access to pills, which are the most common way to end a pregnancy in the U.S. This month, the Texas attorney general's...

The FDA has approved the first generic form of liraglutide (Victoza), a once-daily injectable for improving glycemic control in patients ages 10 and older with type 2 diabetes, used as...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic once-daily injectable version of the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) liraglutide (Victoza, Novo Nordisk) to lower blood sugar in...

The cutting edge of treating solid tumors with cell therapies got notably sharper this year.First came the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in February 2024 of the tumor-infiltrating...

Some gestational exposures to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may carry more chronic kidney disease (CKD) risk for the child than others, a cohort study from Taiwan found. Gestational NSAID exposure...

Some doctors had a sleepless night when the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology's (ABPN) online certification program locked them out earlier than the expected deadline -- leading some to...

Hawkins is an associate professor of emergency medicine and an emergency medical services specialist. Eldridge is an assistant teaching professor of anthropology. Watson is an assistant professor of anthropology. The...

The healthcare profession has done an admirable job controlling infectious epidemics and pandemics, such as AIDS and COVID-19 (special shout-out to Operation Warp Speed for the creation of COVID vaccines...