Oncologist on Hantavirus Cruise; Bile Duct Cancer Drug OK’d; Untreated Lung Cancers
Oregon oncologist Stephen Kornfeld, MD, was a passenger on the MV Hondius but ended up treating hantavirus patients when the ...
Dupilumab Improves Esophageal Distensibility in Eosinophilic Esophagitis
The monoclonal antibody dupilumab (Dupixent) led to significant improvements in esophageal distensibility among patients with eosinophilic esophagitis, the randomized REMODEL ...
Transcranial Stimulation for ASD; Hospital Consultants Worth the Money?
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine ...
US government releases huge batch of UFO files
Archival imagery from the Apollo 17 mission to the moon. The yellow box contains an enlarged area of the original ...
Trump Plans to Fire FDA Chief, Report Says
President Trump has signed off on a plan to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, the Wall Street Journal ...
Trump Plans to Fire FDA Chief Makary, Sources Say
The White House signed off on a plan to fire U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, according to ...
Hantavirus: Anatomy of a Fractured Global Response
Like many of you, I was deeply troubled when, on May 3, news broke that three people had died of ...
Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions
Genome duplication has occurred in many flowering plants, such as the purple gromwellDavid Chapman/Alamy Extra copies of genetic instructions may ...
Factor XIa Tied to Benefit Beyond Stroke Prevention
Results from the OCEANIC-STROKE trial show that the investigational Factor XIa inhibitor, asundexian, not only reduces the recurrent ischaemic stroke ...
In Severe Scabies, Standard-Dose Ivermectin Superior to High Dose
Severe scabies doesn't respond to the usual treatment for classic scabies due to the abundance of skin mites.A randomized trial ...
Tirofiban After Lytic Helps Select Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients
Intravenous thrombolysis, while promoting clot dissolution in acute ischemic stroke, can paradoxically trigger platelet activation.For such patients with an inadequate ...
Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash
A forest fire is burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in UkraineAssociated Press / Alamy ...
NICE Recommends Givinostat for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
NICE has recommended givinostat for all DMD types, offering around 530 patients a drug that may delay disease progression by ...
U.S. Lifts Hold on Immigration Applications for Doctors
Libyan Faysal Al Ghoula, MD, must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, ...
There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam is increasingly vulnerable to flooding because of rising sea levelsGetty Images There has been ...
There’s a been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam is increasingly vulnerable to flooding because of rising sea levelsGetty Images There has been ...
Massive Pacemaker Recall After Deaths; U.S. Doc on Hantavirus Cruise; Deadly Misinfo
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The FDA issued a notice about Boston Scientific's massive recall of ...
Experts Race to Write Guidance to Contain First Ship-borne Hantavirus Outbreak
As the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak sails towards Tenerife, World Health Organization officials are racing to draw ...
Gastric Sleeve Endoscopy Continues Weight Loss after GLP-1s
Researchers link the minimally invasive procedure to significantly greater total weight loss compared to lifestyle modification alone at 1 year ...
Worldwide race to trace passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship
About 12 countries have so far been linked to the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, as the UN health ...
