Weight Loss Drugs Led to Decline in U.S. Obesity Rate
Share on PinterestThe U.S. obesity rate is declining as more people turn to GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. Bloomberg/Getty ImagesA ...
Minimally Invasive CABG Yields Faster Functional Recovery
Patients undergoing multivessel CABG with a minimally invasive approach recover physical function faster than those undergoing sternotomy. Medscape News Canada ...
Closed-Loop Insulin System for T1D in Pregnancy
Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes who use a closed-loop insulin delivery system spend more hours daily in the pregnancy-specific ...
Germanium superconductor could help build reliable quantum computers
Germanium is already used in standard computer chipsmatejmo/Getty Images A superconductor made from germanium, a material commonly used to build ...
Topical 5-FU, Minoxidil Top List of Pet-Toxic Human Meds
Exposure to topical minoxidil, estrogen, and corticosteroids is also linked to poisoning in cats and dogs, in a review of ...
Tocilizumab May Be Better Than MTX for GCA at 1 Year
At week 52 in a randomized, controlled trial, results suggest that tocilizumab is more effective than methotrexate in maintaining remission ...
Europe’s Cancer Divide: Where You Live Still Shapes Survival
Five-year cancer survival rates vary by as much as 25% across Europe, with patients in Eastern Europe facing the lowest ...
‘If nurses told me C-section could be fatal I’d have never risked daughter’s life’
BBCBecky and Tom Williams want safer maternity care for women after their six-day-old daughter diedA couple whose six-day-old daughter's death ...
Cancer survivors from Margate urge others to recognise symptoms
Jadzia Samuel,in Margate and Hsin-Yi Lo,South EastBBC / Jadzia SamuelEve Ross was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer when she ...
Government urged to review botched insulation across Britain
Zoe Conway and James StewartBBCBushra Rashid from Fishwick says that 2013 insulation work has damaged her health and her propertyHomeowners ...
Social Adversity Tied to Higher Incidence of TNBC
Black women living in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods have the highest incidence of TNBC, a national cohort study finds. ...
Many Fear Federal Loan Caps Will Deter Aspiring Doctors
Medical educators and health professionals are warning that new federal student loan caps could make it more expensive for many ...
Stem cell therapy lowers risk of heart failure after a heart attack
Mesenchymal stem cells labeled with fluorescence moleculesVshivkova/Shutterstock People who received an infusion of stem cells shortly after a heart attack ...
PSA Screening Reduces Prostate Cancer Deaths, Long-Term Data Show
(MedPage Today) -- A sustained reduction in deaths from prostate cancer was observed with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in long-term ...
Adding Physical Therapy Did Not Further Reduce Knee Pain From Meniscal Tear
(MedPage Today) -- Combining in-clinic physical therapy with home exercise did not lead to greater reductions in knee pain for ...
NHS Opt-Out Tests Identify Undiagnosed Infections
Thousands of people unaware they were living with HIV or hepatitis have been diagnosed through the NHS’s A&E opt-out testing ...
New Valves Treat ‘No-Option’ Heart Patients
In separate major multicenter trials, two novel valve systems proved effective in severe mitral valve diseases for which there are ...
FDA Launches Effort to Ease Approval Pathway for Biosimilars
(MedPage Today) -- Federal regulators are trying to make it easier to develop cheaper alternatives to biologics that many Americans ...
A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole
It is hard to believe, but Segue 1, a very faint dwarf galaxy, is at the centre of this imageCDS, ...
A Cooler Pancreas? Device Shows Promise in Early-Stage Trial
(MedPage Today) -- PHOENIX -- A first-in-human study found that a novel cooling catheter safely delivered targeted pancreatic temperature reduction ...
