The Smoldering Symphony of Los Angeles: The Burn and Afterburn
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Berenji is an occupational and environmental medicine physician. Driving north on the 405 freeway this past Friday night, I witnessed an...
The Outrageous Cost of Finishing Medical Training
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Riya Shah was unprepared. The fourth-year medical student at Wayne State University in Detroit already spent more than $2000 on her...
Can a new class of wearable tech actively boost your mental health?
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“You’ve achieved 40 seconds of uninterrupted focus.” Apparently, this is cause for celebration. For the past 10 minutes, I have been...
Chicken Broth Recall; Medicaid at Risk; Princess Kate Thanks Medical Staff
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Over 2,000 cases of Great Value chicken broth were recalled due to...
Kate thanks staff at cancer hospital where she was treated
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Kate meets patients at cancer hospital where she was treated The Princess of Wales has made a personal visit to thank...
Wait Lists for Health, Social Services Rising for BC Seniors
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Older adults are living longer, but wait lists for services to support healthy aging in British Columbia (BC) have increased —...
New Weight Loss Drugs May Fight Obesity-Related Cancer, Too
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The latest glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have been heralded for their potential to not only boost weight loss and...
Most Kids With COVID-Linked MIS-C Recover by 6 Months
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The most common symptoms reported at 2 weeks were fatigue (15.9%) and low stamina/energy (9.2%); both decreased to 3.4% and 3.3%,...
Time Management: Medical School’s Greatest Challenge?
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Beginning medical school is one of the greatest adjustments a person will ever make. “Medical school is a whole new beast...
Valaciclovir May Prevent Herpes Zoster in Lupus Treatment
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TOPLINE: The use of valaciclovir as prophylaxis prevents herpes zoster (HZ) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) receiving anifrolumab treatment,...
NHS home bowel-cancer tests to be extended to over-50s in England
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All 50-74-year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years. NHS England has been posting...
HDL and Eye Disease: A Goldilocks Effect?
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High and low levels of high-density lipoprotein and a novel single-nucleotide polymorphism were found to be associated with an increased risk...
TNF Inhibitors May Be Safe in US Veterans With RA-ILD
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TOPLINE: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors led to no significant difference in survival or respiratory-related hospitalizations compared with non-TNF inhibitors, in...
What Is Behind Norovirus Spikes This Season?
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Norovirus cases continue to rise in the United States this winter, at levels higher than the same time period in previous...
Is Obesity in Children With Cancer Tied to Worse Survival?
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TOPLINE: Overall, obesity at the time of cancer diagnosis is independently associated with worse survival outcomes in pediatric patients. The association,...
Pre-Cancer Exercise Linked to Better Disease Outcomes
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TOPLINE: Physical activity before stage I cancer diagnosis is associated with reduced risk for disease progression and mortality. Members engaging in...
Early-Onset Asthma May Slow Memory Development
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Children with asthma scored significantly lower than those without asthma on measures of episodic memory, based on longitudinal data from nearly...
Simplified HIV Treatment Matches Standard Care Success
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TOPLINE: Among treatment-naive people with HIV (PWH), dolutegravir/lamivudine demonstrates effectiveness comparable with those of the commonly prescribed three-drug regimens but offers...
DoxyPEP Cuts STIs in At-Risk Groups
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Doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) has the potential to substantially reduce real-world population-level incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), a study in...
Flu Shot Shields Kids Across Severity Levels
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TOPLINE: Influenza vaccination demonstrates consistent effectiveness of approximately 50% across all severity levels in children, with higher protection observed in younger...
Innovations in HIV Care for Women Worldwide
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Every week, 4000 young cisgender women aged 15-24 years contract HIV globally, according to 2023 data. Infections in this age group...
Women seeking abortions after using ‘natural’ contraception
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Getty Images There has been a rise in the proportion of women seeking abortions despite using “natural” methods to prevent pregnancy,...
More U.K. Abortion Patients Relying on Cycle Tracking Over Hormonal Contraception
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Over a 5-year period, fewer patients seeking abortion in the U.K. reported relying on hormonal contraception at the time of conception,...
‘We re-mortgaged to fund our children’s medication’
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BBC Jannine described her son’s ADHD as “debilitating” Nearly 400,000 private prescriptions for ADHD medication were issued last year as patients...
Getting Lung Cancer Screening Staff Involved Improved Tobacco Cessation
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Integrating smoking cessation into a lung cancer screening program had the biggest benefit for patients who wanted to quit, a randomized...
Docs Organize Against, and for, RFK Jr.’s Nomination to Run HHS
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With controversy continuing to swirl around President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as HHS secretary, physicians...
Intra-Arterial Lytics After Successful Stroke Thrombectomy Did Not Improve Outcomes
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Two randomized trials found that intra-arterial urokinase and tenecteplase did not improve functional outcomes after mechanical thrombectomy in selected stroke patients....
Prospect Is Another Casualty of Private Equity in Healthcare, Experts Say
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Prospect Medical Holdings — a company that was named in a recent Senate report on the negative impacts of private equity...
Vaccinating Toddlers Too Early, Too Late Has Decreased Over Time
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Vaccine doses given to U.S. toddlers outside the recommended age or timing intervals have decreased over time, but still don’t complete...
How Nurses, Doctors Rank in Gallup’s Poll of Most Trusted Professions
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Nurses once again earned the top spot as the most trusted profession in America, with pharmacists and physicians ranking fourth and...
CAR Natural Killer Cell Therapy Shows Promise in B-Cell Lymphomas
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An investigational induced pluripotent stem cell-derived CAR natural killer cell therapy was well tolerated both as monotherapy and in combination with...
Dementia Cases to Double in the U.S.
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U.S. dementia cases were projected to reach 1 million annually by 2060, doubling from 514,000 cases in 2020. Lifetime dementia risk...
Childhood Cancer Survivors Have Double the Risk of Melanoma as Adults
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A history of childhood cancer more than doubled the risk of melanoma and premature death in adults, a large retrospective review...
The What, How, and Why of Ultraprocessed Foods
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Zaltz is a social and behavioral scientist who studies global food policies. Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) are having a real moment. Few...
How to Better Manage ‘No Show’ Appointments
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Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 years....
Most Antiviral Drugs Showed Limited or No Effects Against Flu
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Antiviral drugs commonly used to treat non-severe influenza appeared to have little or no effect on key clinical outcomes, except for...
Attempted murder charge after nurse stabbed
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A man has been charged with attempted murder after a nurse was stabbed at a hospital and left with life-changing injuries....
US Dementia Cases Projected to Double Within 40 Years
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The number of US adults who will develop dementia each year is projected to increase from approximately 514,000 in 2020 to...
Top FDA Official Exits; SCOTUS Takes Up Obamacare Case; Texas Doc Suspended
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD, will step down from her role as FDA’s director...
Lilly Sues Two Medical Spas Over Copycat Weight-loss Drugs
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(Reuters) -Eli Lilly said on Monday it has sued two medical spas for selling unapproved products claiming to contain tirzepatide, the...
High Radon Levels Linked to Gestational Diabetes
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New data link higher county-level radon exposure to gestational diabetes (GD) in women who haven’t previously given birth, emphasizing the need...
‘I feel blessed to get Wegovy weight-loss jab’
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BBC Ray says he feels “lucky” to have had access to the drug via the NHS, especially now he is a...
Canadian Family Physicians Seeing Fewer Patients on Average
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The number of patients that family physicians see has declined, according to the latest report by the Canadian Institute for Health...
Endocrinology Researcher Receives Top American Science Award
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Reproductive endocrinology researcher Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, has been awarded a National Medal of Science for her pioneering work in preserving...
Red Wine May Not Be a Health Tonic, But Is It a Cancer Risk?
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The evidence is clear: Alcohol can cause cancer. Earlier this month, US surgeon general Vivek Murthy, MD, issued an advisory, calling...
California Ambulance Offload Times Exceed State Standards
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TOPLINE: Almost half of California’s local Emergency Medical Service (EMS) agencies report ambulance offload delays exceeding the 30-minute standard, according to...
Why ‘Resilience’ Can Be a Loaded Term for Healthcare Workers
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In the medical field, the term “resilience” routinely makes the rounds. Psychologists define it as the process of successfully adapting to...
10 Actionable Resolutions to Combat Cancer in the New Year
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Did you know that 1 in 5 people worldwide would face a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime? Cancer is the leading...
Around 5% of US Population Diagnosed With Autoimmune Disease
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TOPLINE: In 2022, autoimmune diseases affected over 15 million individuals in the United States, with women nearly twice as likely to...
NECTORS for Advanced HPV-Related Head and Neck Cancer?
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TOPLINE: Compared with standard concurrent chemoradiation, neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by transoral robotic surgery (NECTORS) and neck dissection led to superior distant...