Eye Trauma in Ball Sports: Pickleball Injuries On the Rise
Analysis of a US database shows rising pickleball-related eye injuries, mainly in older adults, with falls and orbital fractures relatively ...
Rural Residents More Willing to Use Medical-Legal Help
Many adult patients are not screened for social needs, but those who are use referrals and are open to seeking ...
FDA Warns on CVS Gel After Serious Injuries Reported
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA warned on wound and burn care products from MediHoney and CVS after more than a ...
‘Just Unconscionable’: Health Insurers Under the Gun at House Hearing
(MedPage Today) -- UnitedHealth Group is the "poster child for Medicare Advantage abuse," and the plan's practice of delaying or ...
Study Questions Benefit of FDA-Cleared Device for ADHD
(MedPage Today) -- A phase IIb trial in England suggested that a stimulation device cleared by the FDA in 2019 ...
Texas Probe Targets Pediatricians, Alleges Illegal Vaccination ‘Scheme’
(MedPage Today) -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into whether pediatricians, insurers, and vaccine makers engaged in ...
Autism Claims for Leucovorin Race Ahead of the Science
(MedPage Today) -- Leucovorin (Wellcovorin), a drug used to treat cerebral folate deficiency, will be used off-label for autism without ...
Webinar Jan. 23: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the New Dietary Guidelines
(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration earlier this month released new dietary guidelines emphasizing whole foods and protein -- elevating ...
Guinea-Bissau Suspends Trump-Backed Hep B Vaccine Trial for Ethical Review
(MedPage Today) -- Guinea-Bissau is suspending a Trump administration-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on newborns in the West African country, ...
Low Vitamin D Tied to More Severe Respiratory Infections
(MedPage Today) -- Very low serum vitamin D was linked to a greater risk of hospitalization for respiratory tract infections ...
Colon Cancer Now Leading Cause of Cancer Death in Younger People
(MedPage Today) -- Mortality from the deadliest cancers has decreased among people younger than 50 over the last three decades ...
Apple Watch Raises Afib Diagnoses in High-Risk Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Smartwatches beat standard cardiology care when it came to detecting atrial fibrillation (Afib, or AF) in a ...
‘Bonkers’ Nurse Pay; Collateral Measles Disruptions; Brain’s Master Clock
(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. As ...
Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syphilis
Treponema pallidum bacteria cause diseases including syphilisScience Photo Library / Alamy Traces of a bacterium related to syphilis have been ...
Death Comes With a Price Tag
(MedPage Today) -- I am going to be clear: as a physician in the U.S., I am terrified. There is ...
Fellow Nurses: What’s Happening With the Nurses in NYC Right Now?
(MedPage Today) -- Approximately 16,000 nurses across three of New York City's largest private-sector hospital networks are currently on strike, ...
Dupilumab Boosts Survival in Immune-Related Skin Events
In patients who developed cutaneous immune-related adverse events, researchers compared outcomes for those who received dupilumab with those who did ...
Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite their huge size
Procoptodon goliah was 2 metres tall, but it might have hoppedMICHAEL LONG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Even the giant kangaroos that roamed ...
Unusual oral microbiome signature linked to obesity
Oral bacteria (blue) on human cheek cells (yellow) shown in a scanning electron micrographSTEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Some people with ...
Wes Streeting admits NHS ‘falling short’ on autism and ADHD
The Health Secretary has admitted the NHS is "falling short" on meeting demand for adult autism and ADHD diagnosis.Speaking to ...
