Assessing SVR at 4 Weeks After Hep C Treatment Proves as Predictive as SVR12
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Assessing sustained virological response (SVR) to hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy at 4 weeks after ...
Study Dumps Cold Water on Cholesterol Screening for Kids
(MedPage Today) -- Screening for heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia in childhood or early adulthood wouldn't come close to being cost-effective, despite ...
Older Kidney Transplant Patients Still See Benefits With Low-Dose Immunosuppression
(MedPage Today) -- HOUSTON -- Rate of successful kidney transplantation was similar in adults, ages 65 and older, who received ...
Interim Data Support Elafibranor in Rare Chronic Liver Disease
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Elafibranor (Iqirvo) was well tolerated and led to sustained improvements in liver enzyme levels and ...
Gene Therapy Shows Lipid Improvement but Raises Flags
A CRISPR-based gene therapy showed improvement in lipids in difficult-to-treat patients, but one study raised flags after a death last ...
‘There’s Nobody There’: What We Heard This Week
(MedPage Today) -- "People can't call or email the traditional group leads and ask what's happening -- because there's nobody ...
Kids’ Neuropsychiatric Events on Montelukast More Common With Psych History
(MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO -- Neuropsychiatric events among children after starting montelukast (Singulair) for allergy and asthma treatment were more ...
Illuminated – The Little Box Which Contains the World
Available for over a yearEmily Berry leads us on an exploration of agoraphobia: a poetic journey through the lives of ...
Nasal Spray Epinephrine Increasingly Used in the Office
(MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO -- Non-injection routes of epinephrine delivery are gaining proponents for rapid response to immunotherapy anaphylaxis in ...
Oral Quadruple Receptor Agonist Drives Weight Loss With Few GI Effects
(MedPage Today) -- ATLANTA -- An investigational quadruple receptor agonist led to a substantial reduction in total body weight with ...
Drug Therapy Holds Its Own Against LAAO in High-Risk Patients With Afib
(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS – Standard medical care seemed to be a better bet than a catheter-based procedure in ...
Coffee as Afib Trigger? ‘Internet Lore’ Debunked
(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- For people with atrial fibrillation (Afib), there was no point cutting out coffee as ...
Expert Shares PsA Screening Tips for People With Psoriasis
The National Psoriasis Foundation recommends that patients with psoriasis be screened for PsA every 6 months. Medscape Medical News Source ...
Evolocumab Reduced First CV Events in Patients Without Prior MI or Stroke
(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- Adding the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab (Repatha) to stable lipid-lowering therapy reduced major adverse cardiac ...
Nursing and Midwifery Council ‘should’ve acted faster’ over Letby
The nursing watchdog "should've acted faster" when responding to concerns about baby killer Lucy Letby, its new boss has said.Paul ...
PCSK9 Inhibitor Found Effective for Primary Prevention
When added to optimized oral anti-lipid therapy, a PCSK9 blocker provided an additional 25% risk reduction in a first cardiovascular ...
Is Egg Freezing Worth the Hype?
(MedPage Today) -- In just over a decade, egg freezing has moved from an experimental procedure to a mainstream medical ...
Two Kidney Function Measures Are Not Always Aligned With Each Other
(MedPage Today) -- HOUSTON -- Two commonly used kidney function tests had a large degree of disagreement and were linked ...
Benralizumab Cuts Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Flares
(MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO -- Anti-interleukin (IL)-5 receptor alpha monoclonal antibody benralizumab (Fasenra) reduced flares in hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES), the ...
New flu virus mutation could see ‘worst season in a decade’
James GallagherHealth and science correspondentGetty ImagesListen to James read this articleFlu strikes every winter, but this year something seems to ...
