Study: CKD Not Worsened With Gout Treatment
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Worries that urate-lowering therapy (ULT) could speed renal failure in patients with gout and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are unfounded, data...
Philly’s Tax on Sugary Drinks Did Not Trim Kids’ Obesity
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Philadelphia’s beverage tax on sugary drinks was not associated with changes in pediatric weight outcomes 2 years after it took effect,...
Barzolvolimab Shows Promise for Cold Urticaria and Dermographism
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The investigational monoclonal antibody barzolvolimab significantly improved provocation test outcomes and reduced symptoms compared with placebo in patients with cold urticaria...
Autopsy Data Reveal New Insights About Brain Swelling After Pediatric TBI
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Children who died soon after moderate or severe TBI had more bilateral brain swelling than adults. At autopsy, pediatric TBI patients...
Early Promise for PI3K Inhibitor in Brain Metastases
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HOUSTON — Two-thirds of patients with PI3K-mutant brain metastases responded to the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of the small-molecule inhibitor paxalisib...
AREDS Supplements May Slow Geographic Atrophy Progression Toward the Fovea
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Findings from a post hoc analysis of the AREDS and AREDS2 studies were presented at the recent American Academy of Ophthalmology...
Getting Patients in the Habit of Doing the Right Thing
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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....
Older people may have better immunity against bird flu virus
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The H5N1 bird flu virus has caused sporadic cases in humans Luca Bruno/Associated Press/Alamy If the H5N1 bird flu virus sparks...
Increases in Myopia Progression in Kids Tied to the COVID Pandemic
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An increase in myopia progression was observed among Chicago-area children early in the COVID-19 pandemic, reported researchers, who suggested that closure...
Even With Access to Blockbuster Obesity Drugs, Some People Don’t Lose Weight
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Unlike scores of people who scrambled for the blockbuster drug semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) to lose weight in recent years, Danielle Griffin...
Dr. Oz’s Dubious Claims; Bird Flu Found in Raw Milk; Whooping Cough Surges
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Here are some of the dubious claims and products that Mehmet Oz,...
Over 160,000 lb of Ground Beef Recalled for E coli Risk
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Nov. 22, 2024 — Wolverine Packing Co. of Detroit has recalled about 167,277 pounds of ground beef products because of possible...
Transfusion in Acute Brain Injury: Is Less Still More?
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Blood transfusions are commonly given to patients with acute brain injury, but there is ongoing debate over whether a restrictive or...
Can Popular Weight Loss Drugs Lower Cancer Risk?
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Blockbuster weight loss and type 2 diabetes drugs, such as Ozempic, carry a growing list of benefits. These drugs — known...
rTMS May Alleviate Common, Resistant Schizophrenia Symptoms
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is both safe and effective for treating nonexistent spoken voices heard by patients with schizophrenia, new...
MASLD and MetALD Linked to Increased Cancer Risk
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TOPLINE: Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), MASLD with increased alcohol intake (MetALD), and other combination etiologies of steatotic liver disease...
Trump Health Agency Nominations Spark Controversy
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President-elect Donald Trump’s vision for the nation’s top health agencies is coming into focus with three nominations announced late Friday that...
Why gene editors want to treat fetuses when they are still in the womb
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Gene editing could be more effective before birth Leigh Prather/Alamy Doing CRISPR gene editing while fetuses are in the womb could...
Larger Bleeds but Better Outcomes?
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TOPLINE: Men with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) experience larger ICH volumes and a higher risk for deep bleeds than women, but they...
Can New Target Boost Bone Health in Older Women With T2D?
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TOPLINE: In older postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes (T2D), pyridoxamine treatment has potential to prevent fractures and protect bone tissue...
USPSTF Calls for Universal Syphilis Screening in Pregnancy
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The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued an updated draft recommendation statement advising early screening for syphilis in...
Gout Experts Approve New Remission Criteria
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In a nearly unanimous vote at the annual research symposium of the Gout Hyperuricemia and Crystal-Associated Disease Network (G-CAN), members approved...
Anticoagulant Considered After Bioprosthetic Valve Surgery
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CHICAGO — Edoxaban, a direct oral anticoagulant, appeared to be as effective as or more effective than warfarin in preventing thromboembolism...
Can Metformin Be Repurposed to Shrink Aneurysms?
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A small number of potentially game-changing trials in Europe and around the world could be on the verge of identifying, for...
Expert Consensus Provides Low-Dose Oral Minoxidil Guidance
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Recently published consensus guidelines for low-dose oral minoxidil (LDOM) treatment of hair loss provide best-practice recommendations in areas ranging from pretreatment...
Spinal Cord Stimulation Promising for Chronic Back, Leg Pain
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TOPLINE: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapies for chronic back and/or leg pain is superior to conventional medical management (CMM) for reduced...
Surgery Better Than Obesity Drugs for Some With MASLD
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SAN DIEGO — In patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), bariatric surgery appears to carry a lower risk for...
Can Planning Models Enhance Radiation Therapy for Cancer?
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TOPLINE: Knowledge-based planning models for radiation therapy can produce fully automated, consistent, and high-quality radiation therapy treatment plans for numerous cancer...
Guidelines Endorse Earlier Use of High-Efficacy Drugs for UC
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In a rapidly expanding therapeutic landscape, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has issued updated practice guidelines for the pharmacological management of...
Three Vascular Risk Factors May Up Severe Stroke Risk
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TOPLINE: Hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and smoking are more strongly linked to increased risk for severe stroke than nonsevere stroke, whereas a...
Dapirolizumab Cuts Disease Activity, Steroid Use in SLE
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WASHINGTON — The investigational anti-CD40 ligand agent dapirolizumab pegol (DZP) outperformed placebo in improving disease activity and reducing high-dose corticosteroid use...
‘At 31, I was told if I didn’t stop drinking, I could die’
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Daniel Taylor-Sweet / BBC BBC journalist Hazel Martin was told to cut out drinking alcohol altogether At 31 years old, I...
California Sets 15% Goal for Primary Care Spending by 2034
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A California agency charged with slowing health costs has set a lofty goal for insurers to direct 15% of their spending...
RSV Infections Take Toll on Adults
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Approximately 1 in 20 adults with outpatient respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections were readmitted to the hospital within 28 days, based...
AI Robot Scanner as Good as Rheumatologists at Assessing RA
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WASHINGTON — A fully automated ultrasound scanning system combined with artificial intelligence–based disease activity scoring performed as well as expert rheumatologists...
‘A Real Regulatory Dilemma Here’: What We Heard This Week
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“It’s a real regulatory dilemma here.” — Donald Kohn, MD, of the University of California Los Angeles, at an FDA advisory...
IDH Inhibitor Activity in Brain Cancer Persists With Longer Follow-Up
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HOUSTON — Progression-free survival (PFS) in IDH-mutant low-grade glioma remained twice as high in adults who received vorasidenib (Voranigo) after surgery...
Digital Doctors Are Coming. Regulators Need to Catch Up.
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Baloescu is an emergency physician, assistant professor, and AI researcher. Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered healthcare suite plans to “shape a...
Who Is Trump’s Pick to Run Medicare and Medicaid?
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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,...
Medications to Reduce Lipoprotein(a); Genome Models and CVD Risk
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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...
Trump Nominates Physicians for CDC Director, Surgeon General
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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated former Republican Rep. Dave Weldon, MD, of Florida, to lead the CDC and Fox News...
Workplace Violence Is Not Just ‘Part of the Job’
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Doehring is an associate professor of clinical emergency medicine and a practicing emergency physician. Palmer is a senior associate dean of...
Why This 62-Year-Old’s Early Signs Were Overlooked
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Share on PinterestVeronica Brown (center left) with her family. Image Provided by Veronica Brown Non-motor symptoms like depression and anxiety are...
CGM Uptake Very Low for Vulnerable Diabetes Populations
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Uptake of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) was relatively low among vulnerable diabetes patients in the largest national system of safety-net primary...
Patients With Melanoma Brain Mets May Fare Better With RT Before Immunotherapy
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HOUSTON — Patients with melanoma brain metastases had better survival if they received radiotherapy (RT) followed by immunotherapy instead of the...
AMA President-Elect Confronts a New Challenge: A Brain Tumor
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When he started to notice a couple of things about himself that were “off,” Bobby Mukkamala, MD, president-elect of the American...
What to Know About Marty Makary, Trump’s Potential FDA Pick
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Multiple reports suggest that president-elect Donald Trump is considering Marty Makary, MD, MPH, to run the FDA. Here’s what to know....
New FDA Panel Weighs In on Regulating Generative AI in Healthcare
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A newly assembled FDA advisory committee recommended several approaches to how the agency should handle regulation of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled...
California Case Is the First Confirmed Bird Flu Infection in a U.S. Child
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Health officials on Friday confirmed bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor. The...
Clonazepam Recall Grows Over Dangerous Labelling Error
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Endo USA, Inc, has expanded its previously announced recall of clonazepam orally disintegrating tablets due to a packaging error that could...