Toxic Metals Have No Place in Prenatal Vitamins
(MedPage Today) -- As clinicians, we all want the best for our patients. But when our evidence-based recommendations are thwarted ...
Fossil teeth may come from a new species of early hominin
A model of an Australopithecus homininCredit: Cro Magnon/Alamy Thirteen hominin teeth have been discovered in Ethiopia in layers of volcanic ...
Tiny discs can levitate in the upper atmosphere using sunlight alone
An illustration of solar-powered levitating discsSchafer et al. Nature Fingernail-size discs that levitate in sunlight could someday carry sensors through ...
A time traveller’s guide to the solar system
The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons ...
HHS Backs mRNA Cuts With Fringe Science; Skin Substitute Pay-to-Play; NIH ‘Shredded’
(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare ...
Risk Factors for Insomnia in Long COVID
(MedPage Today) -- As new COVID-19 variants continue to emerge, so too does new evidence identifying people more vulnerable to ...
Liver Function Linked to OS Benefit in Liver Cancer
TOPLINE:In patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who received immunotherapy, median overall survival was 20.6 months in those with preserved liver ...
GPT-5’s modest gains suggest AI progress is slowing down
GPT-5 is the latest version of OpenAI’s large language modelCheng Xin/Getty Images AI’s latest step forward isn’t so much a ...
A Nurse in Every School?
As a school nurse, Traci Jones, RN, PhD, NCSN, handed out ice packs and bandages, but she also helped students ...
Pharma Giant Sued Over Bribery Allegations; Medicaid $$ for the Dead; Milk and Bones
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the state ...
Couples who meet online may have lower relationship satisfaction
How couples meet could impact the quality of their relationshipGood Faces/Unsplash People who meet their partners online seem to experience ...
Liraglutide Plus Keto Diet Boosts Weight Loss in Obesity
TOPLINE:Compared with a very low-calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD) alone, combining a VLCKD with liraglutide led to greater weight loss and ...
Japanese Encephalitis Continues to Spread in Australia
Japanese encephalitis virus continues to spread in Australia. It has been detected in the country’s mosquito and arbovirus surveillance programs, ...
Ruxolitinib Boosts Survival in Resistant GVHD
TOPLINE:Ruxolitinib demonstrated superior long-term outcomes in steroid-refractory/dependent chronic graft-vs-host disease (SR/D-cGVHD) with median failure-free survival of 38.4 months compared with ...
Slowing UK Cancer Gains Risk Widening Survival Gap
Cancer survival rates in the UK have improved significantly over the past 50 years, but the pace of progress has ...
Overweight and Waking Up Hungry: What to Tell Patients
“Why am I always waking up hungry?” is a recurring theme on social media platforms like TikTok. People ask, “What ...
Doctors Step Up Against the Climate Health Emergency
Canadian emergency medicine resident Julia Sawatzky had an eye-opening experience early in her medical training that reshaped her understanding of ...
Is Oral Vancomycin Effective for Paediatric IBD?
TOPLINE:Oral vancomycin was effective in achieving clinical and biochemical remission in paediatric patients with non-primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) inflammatory bowel ...
Anti-CGRP Antibodies Show Sustained Migraine Relief
TOPLINE:Anti-calcitonin gene-related peptide monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) demonstrated meaningful and sustained effectiveness in reducing monthly migraine days (MMDs) across three consecutive ...
What Dermatologists Need to Know
SEATTLE — With increasing survival rates after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in children, dermatologists may be seeing more ...
