Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral medical topics. People are complaining about a strange side effect...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a self-expanding valve still worked out better, at least in terms of hemodynamics, in the first head-to-head device trial exclusively in women. Among older...

Bryan Johnson, MD, an internal medicine physician in Frisco, Texas, has tried hard over the past 3 years to drop all of his practice's Medicare Advantage (MA) contracts, dropping the...

The planar unit distance problem is about how many equal-sized lines you can draw that connect dots on an infinite sheet of paperNoga Alon et al. 2026, Open AI An...

Healthcare workers and aid groups in eastern Congo said Thursday they are in dire need of more supplies and staff to respond to a growing Ebola outbreak linked to a...

WASHINGTON -- Interest in GLP-1 receptor agonists as a potential aid to sexual desire and arousal disorders took off in the field of sexual medicine -- and landed with a...

Imagine regularly waking up exhausted, not because you didn’t sleep, but because you seemingly spent the entire night immersed in incessant dreams. For people who experience such “epic dreaming”, the...

Violetta Mailyan, DO, of California, was convicted for her role in a $45 million scheme to defraud Medicare by billing for Botox injections that were never provided or that patients...

Long-term implications may be underestimated, and new data show relatively low medication use. Medscape Medical News Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/hypertension-undertreated-pediatrics-2026a1000gj7?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2026-05-21 13:48:00 Copyright for syndicated...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. U.S. officials are working with Mapp Biopharmaceutical, a small biotech company based in San Diego, to provide an experimental monoclonal antibody...

A new study finds that prior authorization requirements vary widely across major insurers and suggests large language models could help streamline how authorization rules are interpreted and processed. Medscape Medical...

A proposed MHRA framework would combine clinical trial and marketing authorisation approval, potentially cutting years from drug development. Medscape News UK Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-licensing-route-could-speed-rare-disease-drug-access-2026a1000gje?src=rss Author : Publish date :...

You might have heard the tip that eating local yoghurt as soon as your arrive on holiday can help your gut adjust to the new environment. But is it actually...

Tyler West opens up about his experience of school on Sort Your Life Out Unpacked. Source link : https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cp9pje2zprvo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss Author : Publish date : 2026-05-21 13:01:00 Copyright for syndicated content...

One fifth of pregnant women are not being screened in a timely manner for syphilis, according to a new study in Ontario. Medscape News Canada Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1-5-pregnancies-not-screened-syphilis-time-2026a1000ggs?src=rss Author...

Compared to people without liver steatosis, those with the condition had greater noncalcified coronary plaque burden and nearly twice the risk for major cardiovascular events, an analysis of the multicenter...

Analysis of data from the PUSH randomized trial affirmed that more fluid increase is better, but some still helps. Medscape Medical News Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/upping-fluids-after-kidney-stones-helps-prevent-recurrence-2026a1000gif?src=rss Author : Publish date...

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy above a certain vibration perception threshold is linked to a notably higher risk for dementia in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a Danish cohort study....

Despite rising cases in recent years, lentigo maligna shows minimal progression to melanoma, and patients with this condition are more likely to die due to other factors, a retrospective study...

Creatinine muscle index can serve as a blood biomarker to estimate low muscle mass and identify individuals at an increased risk for frailty, comorbidities, and mortality. Medscape News UK Source...