Clopidogrel Tops Aspirin Post-PCI, Even in High-Risk Cases
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TOPLINE: The beneficial effect of clopidogrel monotherapy over aspirin monotherapy in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and remained event...
Fertility Preservation in SCD: Women Have More Complications
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SAN DIEGO — Significant complications were common in female patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) who underwent fertility preservation (FP) procedures,...
Sleep Apnea Linked to Heightened Mortality in Epilepsy
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LOS ANGELES — Individuals with both uncontrolled epilepsy and sleep apnea are at significantly higher risk for mortality than those with...
AI Tool Predicts Progression From MCI to AD: What to Know
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An estimated 14 million older adults in the United States live with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). While many will never progress...
Leaded Gas Exposure Tied to Millions of Mental Illness Cases
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Childhood exposure to leaded gasoline via car exhaust over the past 75 years is linked to 151 million excess cases of...
Extended Results Confirm Standard of Care for DLBCL
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SAN DIEGO — Patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) continue to show superior progression-free survival at 5 years with first-line...
How Are Patients Managing Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer?
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TOPLINE: The use of active surveillance or watchful waiting increased by more than twofold overall between 2010 and 2020 among patients...
Smart Mattress to Reduce SUDEP?
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LOS ANGELES — A mattress designed to detect seizures in individuals with epilepsy who are lying face down and quickly reposition...
TIVA Enables Earlier Facial Nerve Monitoring in Ear Surgery
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TOPLINE: Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) enables earlier intraoperative monitoring of facial nerve activity than sevoflurane anesthesia during ear surgery, with reduced...
Smoking Linked to More Genetic Havoc in MDS
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SAN DIEGO — A new study linked longer duration and deeper intensity of tobacco smoking to more genetic mutations in myelodysplastic...
More Biologics Breaking Through for COPD
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New biologic drugs for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are finally here, said Stephen Rennard, MD, in a presentation in a...
Malpractice in the Age of AI
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Instead of sitting behind a laptop during patient visits, the pediatrician directly faces the patient and parent, relying on an ambient...
Self-Care Can Elevate Quality of Life in Chronic Diseases
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TOPLINE: Self-care preparedness is positively associated with improved health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with chronic conditions over 36 months,...
Does Acalabrutinib Fit Into Frontline MCL Therapy?
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For younger, fit patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), adding the Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor acalabrutinib to standard induction therapy...
Canadian Bill Would Require Interoperable Health IT
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New legislation would require health information technology (IT) to be interoperable across the country, thus allowing patients and healthcare providers to...
Which States Have the Most Outstanding Hospitals for Maternity Care?
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Among the 414 facilities that earned top marks on the 2024 “Best Hospitals for Maternity Care” list from U.S. News &...
APA Updates Guidance on Borderline Personality Disorder
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For the first time since 2001, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its clinical practice guideline on borderline personality disorder...
One in Six Adults With Asthma Didn’t Adhere to Meds Due to Cost
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Despite a declining trend, the number of adults in the U.S. who say they did not adhere to their asthma treatment...
‘My autistic son had no safety net when in crisis’
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Family handout Declan Morrison’s father said the 26-year-old had enjoyed listening to birdsong at twilight The family of a man who...
Procalcitonin Confirmed as Good Gauge for Window of Sepsis Antibiotics
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For critically ill patients on antibiotics for suspected sepsis, monitoring one biomarker safely shortened the course of these medications in the...
Who Is Luigi Mangione, the ‘Person of Interest’ in the UnitedHealthcare Murder?
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Police arrested a 26-year-old man on Monday in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after they say a Pennsylvania McDonald’s worker...
How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch
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The availability of safe, effective COVID vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year...
Modernizing the Electronic Health Record
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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....
Hydroxyurea Shows Some Benefits in Milder Sickle Cell Disease
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SAN DIEGO — Treatment with hydroxyurea led to more hematologic dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) compared with placebo in patients with hemoglobin SC,...
Rheumatoid Arthritis Boosts Risk for Heart Failure, but Not Every Kind
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Rates of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) were doubled in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) relative to other people...
Use of Depression Treatments Lower for Teens in States With Parental Consent Laws
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Use of treatment for depression among adolescents was significantly lower in states that mandate caregiver consent for such treatment, according to...
Racial Diversity Lacking in Epilepsy Genetics Studies
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LOS ANGELES — Low racial diversity has limited genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in epilepsy, researchers found, with implications for prognostication and...
Disability Redefines ‘Ability’ in the Medical Profession
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Lazarus is an adjunct professor of psychiatry. Last month, Elton John told Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts that he has lost...
Stopping MS Drugs Leads to Inflammatory Activity in Some Stable Patients
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Nearly one in five stable MS patients developed significant radiological inflammation after stopping first-line treatment. The median time to disease activity...
Fixed-Duration Oral Doublet for Fit CLL Wins in Frontline Setting
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SAN DIEGO — A fixed-duration oral combination significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death compared with chemoimmunotherapy in fit...
Person of Interest in CEO’s Killing in Police Custody
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A man with a gun thought to be similar to the one used in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson...
Women With Epilepsy Often Remain Unaware of Medication’s Pregnancy Risks
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LOS ANGELES — Many women of reproductive age who were taking antiseizure medication didn’t fully understand its implications for pregnancy or...
Could a Hypertension Drug Protect Against Post-Stroke Epilepsy?
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LOS ANGELES — Use of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) was linked to a lower risk of epilepsy after an acute ischemic...
Thirteen proteins in your blood could reveal the age of your brain
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Researchers trained an artificial intelligence model to gauge people’s ages from their brain scans laboratory/Alamy The abundance of 13 proteins in...
Treatment of Smoldering Myeloma Cuts Progression Rate in Half
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SAN DIEGO — The risk of progression from smoldering multiple myeloma to symptomatic disease decreased by 50% in patients treated with...
RFK Jr. to Investigate Vaccines; Microdosing Semaglutide; Methadone Clinic Fraud?
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. President-elect Donald Trump suggested that HHS nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will...
Prioritise safety not A&E target, NHS leaders told
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told health chiefs in England to prioritise safety even if it means performance against the four-hour...
Why Do People Struggle to Prioritize Their Long-Term Health?
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Understanding how people make health-related decisions requires a deeper exploration of their motivations, beliefs, and circumstances, Christopher Dye, DPhil, professor of...
Rise in Psychotherapy Use Exposes Access Inequities
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Outpatient psychotherapy use in the United States rose sharply between 2018 and 2021, an increase that was driven primarily by young,...
Do Patients Prefer Access or Benefit?
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When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants cancer drugs accelerated approval, a key aim is to provide patients faster...
Lupus Nephritis Biomarkers ‘Robustly’ Predict Organ Damage
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WASHINGTON — An investigational 12-protein panel of urinary biomarkers predicted histologically active lupus nephritis (LN) with 86% accuracy, according to research...
Untreated Female Infertility Raises Autoimmune Disease Risk
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TOPLINE: Women who have experienced infertility without fertility treatment show a 25% higher risk for systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease (SARD) up...
Gynaecology patients going private to escape NHS waiting lists
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PA Some women have described waiting in “agony” for gynaecological treatment When the BBC reported that waiting lists for gynaecology appointments...
Low Bone Strength Even After Remission in Cushing Syndrome
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TOPLINE: Bone material strength index (BMSi) values remain low in patients with Cushing syndrome even after 6 years in remission, despite...
Pediatric Programs Continue to Struggle
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Over half of pediatric rheumatology fellowship positions went unfilled in 2024, according to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). Comparatively, nearly...
Experts Warn of Epidemic Risks Under RFK Jr.’s Leadership
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The availability of safe, effective Covid vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year...
Whooping Cough and Newborns: How to Set Boundaries
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Dec. 6, 2024 — Whooping cough is making a dangerous comeback across the US, with cases soaring to 4.5 times more...
Treatment Effective Before CAR T
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SAN DIEGO — Single-agent epcoritamab demonstrated deep and durable responses in CAR T–naïve patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma...
Skin Stress Biomarker May Predict Nerve Damage in Early T2D
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TOPLINE: Increased cutaneous carbonyl stress is linked to slower nerve conduction in patients with metabolically well-controlled, recent-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D)...
Promising Results With Epcoritamab Monotherapy in Relapsed/Refractory CLL
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SAN DIEGO — Single-agent epcoritamab (Epkinly) achieved encouraging response rates in patients with heavily-pretreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to early...