NHS App upgrade to give patients more choice over treatment
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BBC Plans for an upgraded NHS App to allow more patients in England to book treatments and appointments will be part...
What Happened to Patient Portal Messages After a Health System Billed for Them?
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The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today,...
Heated Mittens for Hand OA; Pediatric Firearm and Motor Vehicle Deaths
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TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in...
Keep Quality Measures Out of the Exam Room
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Millstein is an attending physician. The patient’s check-up begins, as most now do, by sitting down and typing my username and...
What Happened With the USMLE Cheating Scandal?
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In February, we reported on a cheating scandal that resulted in U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores being invalidated for hundreds...
14 Surprising Ways to Beat the Winter Blues
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As holiday festivities fade into the rearview, these lesser-known tips can help you navigate the winter blues and seasonal depression. Share...
CBD-Coated Tampons? FDA Says No Way
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(MedPage Today) — “CBD is known for its soothing and anti-inflammatory properties, which makes it your period’s perfect partner in crime.”...
Sick Season Is in Full Force. Here’s What the Latest CDC Figures Show.
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The holidays came with a side of flu for many Americans, with 40 states reporting high or very high levels of...
Surgeon General Calls for Stronger Wording of Cancer Risk on Alcohol Packages
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In a new report emphasizing the link between alcohol and cancer, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, calls for warnings...
Possible Early Symptom of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Identified
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People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective...
‘Ticking Time Bomb’; Jimmy Carter’s Lasting Impact on Cancer; Breast Cancer-CVD Link
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Liver cells damaged by diet-driven metabolic dysfunction are like a “ticking time bomb” in the evolution of liver cancer, according to...
What’s With All the UFH Infusions for Acute Pulmonary Embolism?
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Professional guidelines recommend LMWH and DOACs over UFH for the majority of patients hospitalized for acute PE. Yet physicians expressed general...
US Surgeon General Urges Cancer Warnings for Alcoholic Drinks
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – -Alcoholic drinks should carry a label warning consumers about their cancer risks, the U.S. Surgeon General said in...
Skeptics Question Transmissible Alzheimer’s Claims
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In early 2024, we reported new research that suggested Alzheimer’s disease may be transmissible under rare conditions. The study fueled debates...
Which Respiratory Virus Do I Have?
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This story was originally published in 2022; it has since been updated. It started with a tickle in your throat. Then,...
Weight Management Cuts Cardiovascular Risks in Breast Cancer Survivors
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Findings from a retrospective cohort study at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium showed that weight management strategies, such as nutrition...
Cancer Warnings on Alcohol? Surge in GI Illnesses; Swab Detects Kids’ Asthma Type
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory that alcohol consumption is a...
Will the Trump Administration Be a Dangerous Ally to the Wellness Industry?
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Love is an immunologist and microbiologist with expertise in infectious diseases, cancer, and autoimmunity. Suleta is a trained epidemiologist with a...
These are the Top Diets for 2025
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This year’s annual “Best Diets” ratings from U.S. News & World Report featured a dozen new categories for health conditions or...
US teens are using less of every substance – except for one
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Nicotine pouches have become popular in the US Shutterstock/Piskova Photo Adolescent drug use in the US largely declined in 2024, with...
Which Migraine Treatments Work Best in the ED?
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TOPLINE: For patients with migraine who visit the emergency department (ED), intravenous (IV) chlorpromazine provides superior pain relief at 2 hours...
Stockton mum’s vaccine plea after losing baby to flu
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Meg Hughes Until he caught flu, Louie Hughes had been thriving since being born at just 26 weeks A mother is...
Flu rises sharply in England’s hospitals
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The number of people with flu in hospital in England has risen sharply over Christmas, NHS chiefs warn. The latest data...
AI-Driven Colonoscopy Aid Module Boosts Premalignant Polyp Detection
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Results from the British COLO-DETECT trial add to the growing body of evidence supporting the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-aided colonoscopy...
ESG Plus Lifestyle Intervention Shows Promise for MASH
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TOPLINE: Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) combined with lifestyle changes leads to significant weight loss and improves liver health in patients with...
Gastro Issues Common Symptom Cluster Tied to Kidney Failure
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TOPLINE: A systematic analysis revealed eight distinct symptom clusters in patients with kidney failure, with gastrointestinal problems being the most frequent....
Intensive Psychiatric Home Care May Cut Hospital Readmission
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TOPLINE: Intensive home treatment after a psychiatric crisis is linked to 18% lower readmission rates over 12 months than standard psychiatric...
Adding Mobile App to Medication for OUD May Improve Outcomes
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TOPLINE: Augmenting medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with smartphone app–based contingency management (CM) was associated with a 30% reduction in...
Brain Changes in Youth Who Use Substances: Cause or Effect?
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A widely accepted assumption in the addiction field is that neuroanatomical changes observed in young people who use alcohol or other...
National Care Service plans in pipeline for 2028, say ministers
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Getty Images Proposals on the long-term funding of adult social care in England are unlikely to be delivered before 2028 at...
Durable Improvement in Rheumatic Pain, Health Seen With Brief Lifestyle Program
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A comprehensive lifestyle-improvement program — delivered entirely online — helped patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA), osteoarthritis (OA), and fibromyalgia enjoy better...
Enthusiasm for Transplant-Free Strategies for Low-Risk Relapsed Hodgkin Lymphoma
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Non-transplant salvage therapy for low-risk relapsed/refractory pediatric classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) had high rates of progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS)...
Worse Outcomes After Esophagectomy at Private Equity-Owned Hospitals
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Esophagectomy outcomes trended in the wrong direction at hospitals owned by private-equity companies, a review of more than 9,000 cases showed....
ABIM Revokes Certification of Another Doctor Who Made Controversial COVID Claims
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The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) revoked the board certification of Peter McCullough, MD, MPH, a cardiologist who promoted controversial...
5 Things We Know and Still Don’t Know About COVID, 5 Years After It...
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Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world....
Jury Awards Doc $21M; Doc Accused of Using Job Recruitment for Rape; Nurse Wins...
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Former Seattle Children’s physician Benjamin Danielson, MD, won $21 million in a racial discrimination case he filed last year. (Seattle Times)...
HCPs Reflect on 2024; NYE Count Down by Specialty; How to Avoid Norovirus
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The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. As 2024 came to a...
Psychedelic Therapy Begins in Colorado, Amid Tension Between Conservatives, Veterans
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As Colorado becomes the second state to legalize psychedelic therapy this week, a clash is playing out in Colorado Springs, where...
Glutamatergic Medications Show Promise for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
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Glutamatergic medications showed promise in treating obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), especially obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a systematic review and meta-analysis showed....
AZD0486 Shows Good Efficacy in Relapsed/Refractory Follicular Lymphoma
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At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting, data from a phase I trial of AZD0486 — a novel...
Concerns Continue Over Private Equity’s Reach Into Healthcare
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In September, we reported on a Senate hearing that focused on the impact that Steward Health Care’s greed and mismanagement had...
Docs Worry Not Enough Known About GLP-1s and Teens
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About 20% of adolescents have obesity, a figure that is expected to rise over the next few decades. And while popular...
Amber health alerts issued ahead of snow forecast
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PA Media Parts of northern England and Scotland have already seen snowfall this week Temperatures have dropped as colder arctic air...
Broccoli Warning Issued; Dr. Oz vs RFK Jr. on Ozempic; Is Moderate Drinking Safe?
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The FDA spread the warning from Braga Fresh that certain bags of...
Base Treatment Decisions in Metastatic Breast Cancer on Presence of ESR1 Mutations
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In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Virginia Kaklamani, MD, DSc, of UT Health Sciences Center in San Antonio and co-director of...
Excessive Crystalloid Use Increases Mortality in Trauma
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TOPLINE: A study has shown that administering ≥ 2 L of crystalloids during the prehospital and emergency department phases of treatment...
Workplace Culture Trumps Pay for Most Internists: Survey
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Only about 1 in 6 internal medicine specialists believe their compensation is more important than workplace culture, according to the “2024...
Combined Psoriasis/PsA Clinics: Potential and Pitfalls
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NEW YORK — The idea of having dermatologists and rheumatologists under one roof to see patients with psoriasis prone to psoriatic...
Exposure to Dioxins May Increase Obesity Risk
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TOPLINE: Combined exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs) is significantly associated with an increased risk for obesity in adults,...
Exercising Longer May Boost Weight Loss, Meta-Analysis Shows
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TOPLINE: Aerobic exercise shows a linear relationship with weight loss, with 30 minutes of weekly exercise linked to reduced body weight,...