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Regular walking during recovery may reduce cancer-related fatigue and improve long-term well-being for patients with early-stage colorectal cancer. Medscape Medical ...

Public Perception of Nurses Varies Across Communities

An Italian study finds wide variation in how nursing is perceived across ethnic groups, with implications for workforce recruitment and ...

Maryland’s All-Payer Model: Surgeons’ Perspectives

Surgeons report high awareness of Maryland’s All-Payer Model but inconsistent communication about it; they recognize efforts toward improved outcomes but ...

Ontario Losing Family Docs, Old and Young

Two recent surveys show that the Ontario family physician shortage is worsening because of retirements, and many medical students are ...

Multiple Abnormal Responses to Exertion Seen in ME/CFS

Findings underscore the risk for graded exercise in people with post-exertional malaise and point to careful activity pacing as a ...

AGA Urges Caution Before Surgery in Refractory Constipation

A new clinical practice update outlines a stepwise approach to diagnosing and managing refractory constipation before considering surgery. Medscape Medical ...

Watchdog Calls for Clearer Rules on Corridor Care

The HSSIB warns that corridor care is being used year-round in some hospitals in England, raising concerns about patient safety, ...

Beyond the Bots: How Clinicians Can Adapt to AI Lab Reviews

With AI interpreting lab results for a growing number of patients, clinicians must provide context and caution and prepare for ...

Alopecia Treatment Not Tied to Bone Loss in Women

A study evaluates the risk for osteoporosis or osteopenia associated with 5-alpha reductase inhibitors in women with two types of ...

Scalp Cooling to Prevent Hair Loss: 2 States Order Coverage

A handful of other states are considering mandating private insurance coverage of the technology, used to block chemotherapy-associated hair loss. ...

Amnesty bins installed at Birmingham hospitals after knives found

Joanne WrittleBBC Midlands Today Health Correspondent, BirminghamBBCTom Blyth, a consultant at Heartlands Hospital, said patients sometimes carry knives while in ...

FDA Clears First In-Ear EEG Device

The Naox Link system uses soft, biocompatible in-ear electrodes integrated into wired earbuds to acquire, record, and transmit EEG data ...

ADHD Treatment in Childhood May Affect Adult BMI and Height

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder who receive methylphenidate may be at an increased risk of having a higher BMI and shorter ...

Long waits for disability benefit claims unacceptable, MPs say

Becky MortonPolitical reporterGetty ImagesSome people are waiting more than a year to have their disability benefit claims processed, which risks ...

House Passes Bill to Extend Healthcare Subsidies in Defiance of GOP Leaders

(MedPage Today) -- In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired ...

CAR7 Gene Therapy Shows Promise in T-Cell ALL

(MedPage Today) -- The use of base editing to generate universal off-the-shelf CAR T cells induced durable remissions -- up ...

AMA Urges Congress to Make Telehealth Flexibilities Permanent

(MedPage Today) -- With the deadline for making pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities permanent looming at the end of the month, the ...

Not All Drugs Approved for Rheumatoid Arthritis Are Equal for Pain Relief

(MedPage Today) -- Among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients responding to upadacitinib (Rinvoq) or adalimumab, those receiving the former had significantly ...

‘They’ve Just Gotten It Wrong’: Vaccine Shift Raises Fears of Hepatitis A, B Surges