We may finally know what causes will-o’-the-wisps
An 1849 engraving depicting a will-o’-the-wispSSPL/Getty Images Bubbles merging in water can spontaneously generate electric sparks powerful enough to ignite ...
Does Early Palliative Care Cut Costs in Head, Neck Cancer?
Compared to starting late, initiating palliative care early may reduce end-of-life costs associated with tracheostomy and gastrostomy tube use in ...
Deepfake Doctors: How AI Spreads Medical Disinformation
AI-generated doctors, some fabricated and some mimicking well-known physicians, sell sketchy products and bad medical advice on social media. Here’s ...
Ocrelizumab Shows Hand Function Benefits in Advanced Progressive MS
(MedPage Today) -- Ocrelizumab (Ocrevus) delayed overall disability progression and worsening of upper limb function in people with primary progressive ...
Precision Therapy for Genetic Dilated Cardiomyopathy a Growing Possibility
(MedPage Today) -- MINNEAPOLIS -- The small-molecule drug candidate danicamtiv showed promise for activating myosin in gene-related dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), ...
Will Cracking Down on Drug Ads Help Patients?
(MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, would seemingly like us ...
Injuries, Deaths in Young Kids Fell After Backup Camera Mandate
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- After a 2018 federal mandate requiring backup cameras in all new vehicles, there were far ...
Cannabis Product Beats Placebo for Common Chronic Pain
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with chronic low back pain experienced clinically significant relief when taking an investigational cannabis extract called ...
‘You Can Really Clean Up’: Concerns Arise About Doctors as Expert Witnesses
(MedPage Today) -- When a Harvard epidemiologist was found to have been paid nearly $150,000 to testify against Tylenol's manufacturer, ...
One day of planning went into Covid school closures, inquiry hears
The government did not start planning for the closure of schools until the day before the decision was made, the ...
Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain
A cannabis extract was tested as a treatment for chronic painCappi Thompson/Getty Images A drug derived from cannabis eases chronic ...
Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?
Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? ...
Our brain ‘swivels’ to focus on sounds from different directions
We can’t physically pivot our ears towards sounds, but our brain still hones in on themExperienced Skins/Getty Images Dogs do ...
Rise in Early Cancers: An Epidemic of Diagnosis, Not Disease?
(MedPage Today) -- The recent rise in the incidence of early-onset cancers does not necessarily mean that the occurrence of ...
Practice-Influencing Results in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Men with advanced prostate cancer and limited metastatic recurrence lived more than twice as ...
Best Practices Needed for GLP-1 Drug Prescribing in Sleep Apnea, Experts Say
(MedPage Today) -- At World Sleep 2025, a discussion group examined the emerging role of GLP-1 receptor agonists in obstructive ...
One Biologic Comes Out on Top in Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps and Asthma
(MedPage Today) -- The first head-to-head randomized clinical trial to compare biologics in severe chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) ...
How to have a social life – even when it feels hard
Advice on staying connected with friends when life feels like a never-ending to-do list. Source link : https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c80gmkyj445o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss Author : ...
Some People Tape Their Mouths Shut at Night. Doctors Wish They Wouldn’t.
(MedPage Today) -- Having your mouth taped shut is the stuff of nightmares -- but some people are doing just ...
Hybrid Device for Heart Failure Shows Early Promise
(MedPage Today) -- MINNEAPOLIS -- The novel dual-function cardiac contractility modulation-defibrillator (CCM-D) for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) ...
