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Nursing home staff overdiagnoses their dementia patients with schizophrenia so they can prescribe antipsychotics in order to make the patients ...

90,000 Ibuprofen Bottles Recalled; ACIP Disbanding? Trump Pardons Health Fraudsters

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Strides Pharma recalled nearly 90,000 bottles of children's ibuprofen for the ...

Paralympic Classification: Making Milano Cortina Fair

For clinicians, knowing the B, LW, and SB class systems helps interpret outcomes and advise athletes on training, equipment choices, ...

Design May Explain Differences in BBP Trial Results

Two multicenter trials drew different conclusions about the value of conduction system relative to biventricular pacing for left bundle branch ...

Infection Risk Surges Around Cirrhosis Diagnosis

Infection risk is elevated around the time of cirrhosis diagnosis vs years prior, with the elevated risk persisting post-diagnosis; the ...

Smoking Not Tied to Altered Brain Networks in Psychosis Risk

Tobacco smoking is not associated with functional connectivity alterations in large-scale brain networks among individuals at clinical high risk for ...

Preferred MRI Definitions for Early Spondyloarthritis

Combining Leiden structural lesion definitions with the standard ASAS active criteria offers the most sensitive validated approach for identifying early ...

Adding Lenvatinib to Pembro Ups PFS in Head and Neck Cancer

In a new trial, patients with PD-L1 CPS ≥ 1 HNSCC were randomly assigned 1:1 to receive 20 mg/d lenvatinib ...

Heart Health Benefits Fade After Stopping GLP-1 Drugs

Share on PinterestStopping GLP-1s can quickly reverse the cardiovascular benefits gained while taking them. Image Credit: the_burtons/Getty ImagesA recent study ...

Axitinib Ups Neuroendocrine Tumor Objective Response Rate

Patients were randomly assigned 1:1 to receive either axitinib 5 mg orally twice daily or matching placebo, both combined with ...

Women With Metabolic Risks More Prone to Liver Fibrosis

Women with certain cardiometabolic risk factors face a disproportionately greater increase in the odds of clinically significant liver fibrosis than ...

Waste Not, Want Not: Scientists Turn Plastic Into Levodopa

Researchers use a novel process involving engineered Escherichia coli to turn plastic waste into levodopa, a frontline treatment for Parkinson’s ...

Lab-grown food pipe offers new hope for young patients

UK scientists have grown fully functioning food pipes and successfully transplanted them into mini pigs, paving the way for human ...

Employee Dies Of Meningitis in North France, Company Says no Link to UK Outbreak

An employee at French nuclear fuel company ⁠Orano's La Hague site in Normandy has died of ⁠meningitis, the company said ...

Inside Bloodless Transplants: Q&A With a Pioneer

Patricia Ford, MD, a leader in bloodless medicine and transfusion-free oncology, discusses her career and how she became the first ...

Small Bowel Obstruction: Laparoscopy Shows No Long-Term Edge

Laparoscopic surgery for adhesive small bowel obstruction is not superior to open surgery, with similar recurrence rates and quality of ...

UTICalc Accurately IDs Urinary Tract Infection in Babies