Sedative, Hypnotic Drug Misuse 5x in Young Adults Since 2001
More teens and young adults appear to be developing addiction or dependence on drugs that help them sleep, calm down, ...
Trump Health Pick Kennedy Comes Under US Senate Scrutiny Over Vaccine, Abortion Views
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick to lead the top U.S. health agency, appeared before the ...
Novel Brain Biomarker Accurately Predicts Pain Sensitivity
A novel biomarker signature may offer a more objective way of predicting pain sensitivity, new research suggested.Investigators utilized the biomarker, ...
Can Memory Influence Food Cravings, Food Intake, and Weight?
The hippocampus contains neurons that specifically encode memories of sugar and fat, influencing food intake and body weight in mice, ...
Preeclampsia Drives Maternal Risk in Hypertensive Pregnancy
TOPLINE:Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) rates are five times higher when preeclampsia develops in pregnancy, regardless of chronic hypertension status. Patients ...
Which Obesity Measure Best Predicts Periodontitis Risk?
TOPLINE:Two newer measures of obesity that include waist circumference — weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) and waist-to-height ratio (WtHR) — may ...
Investigative Treatments for Moderate to Severe Psoriasis Reviewed
NEW YORK — No fewer than four investigative therapies, ranging from an oral interleukin-23 receptor antagonist to oral tyrosine kinase ...
Survival in Lynch Syndrome Similar to General Population
TOPLINE:Patients with Lynch syndrome do not have an increased all-cause mortality rate, despite patient beliefs to the contrary; however, those ...
Brain Activity Mirrors Inflammation After Bariatric Surgery
TOPLINE:In the first study of its kind, researchers identified specific brain regions linked to a transient surge in patients’ inflammatory ...
Suboptimal Diets Tied to Global Doubling of GI Cancers
More than 1 in 5 of new gastrointestinal (GI) cancer cases globally were attributable to suboptimal dietary intake, according to ...
PharmDs, Not MDs, RNs in VA Hiring Freeze Exemption List
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has outlined > 300,000 exemptions to the federal hiring freeze to fill essential ...
Tuberculosis Hits Hard in Kansas City
State and local public health officials in Kansas are responding to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the Kansas City area, ...
Alzheimer’s Disease: The Cholinergic Revival
Before the advent of the amyloid hypothesis in the 1990s, the cholinergic hypothesis offered key clues to the etiology of ...
Is It Safe to Eat Eggs During the Bird Flu Outbreak?
Share on PinterestWhen buying eggs during the bird flu outbreak, choose only refrigerated eggs and refrigerate them immediately once they ...
How Blood Cancer Specialists Care for Dying Patients
End-of-life medical care poses many dilemmas for hematologists as they consider treatment for their dying patients. Where do the wishes ...
Schools Lag Behind on Kids’ Diabetes Tech, Parents Say
Just a few years ago, children with type 1 diabetes reported to the school nurse several times a day to ...
Could Binge Eating Be Behind Weight Gain in HIV?
Almost 1 in 10 patients receiving HIV care may have binge eating disorder (BED), a significantly higher rate than the ...
How to Choose a Medical Specialty
The 2024 Main Residency Match broke all prior records, with almost 45,000 medical and doctor of osteopathic medicine school applicants ...
High-Income Nations Lead, Others Lag in Cancer Care Equity
Patients in high-income countries generally have access to innovative and effective cancer treatment. However, in almost half of low- and ...
Cheap Clinical Biomarker May Predict Long COVID Severity in Older Women
(MedPage Today) -- Leukocyte count, a widely available and inexpensive clinical marker of inflammation, may help predict the severity of ...
