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Cold EMR for Polyps: Safety Gains Come at Cost of Recurrence
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Despite having a better safety profile, cold endoscopic mucosal resection led to a higher risk for recurrent/residual neoplasia. Medscape Medical News...
Breast Cancer Screening at 40 Seems Cost-Effective in Canada
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Earlier initiation of digital screening mammography at age 40 years leads to substantial healthcare savings by reducing the cost of breast...
Mixed Results for Wearables in Heart Disease
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TOPLINE: Wearable devices are associated with a reduced risk for major adverse cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in patients with ischemic...
Sunscreen Cost Could Affects Sunscreen Use, Study Suggests
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TOPLINE: A study found that people applied less sunscreen as cost increased, suggesting that higher sunscreen prices may lead to underapplication....
Genetics Predicts Diabetes Despite No Clinical Risk Factors
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TOPLINE: A more comprehensive risk score for type 2 diabetes (T2D) may predict disease onset in individuals with normal weight and...
Quality, Not Type, of Diet Linked to Microbiome Health
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People who ate more plant-based and less meat-based foods — whether on a vegan, vegetarian, or omnivorous diet — had more...
Antibiotics Not Linked to Short-Term Dementia Risk
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TOPLINE: There is no link between antibiotic use and an increased risk for dementia or cognitive impairment in healthy adults aged...
Dazukibart Shows Promise in Treating Dermatomyositis
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TOPLINE: Treatment with dazukibart, a monoclonal antibody targeting interferon beta, yielded a rapid reduction in dermatomyositis disease activity in adults with...
FDA Pushes for New Buprenorphine Labeling
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging manufacturers to revise labeling of transmucosal buprenorphine products to ease access to...
Study Examines Acne Relapse and Isotretinoin Retrial
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Among patients treated with isotretinoin for acne, approximately one fifth experienced a relapse that required additional treatment with systemic medication, and...
Deaths of 56 babies at Leeds hospitals may have been preventable, BBC told
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MARTIN MCQUADE / BBC Amarjit Kaur and Mandip Singh Matharoo’s daughter Asees was stillborn in January 2024 The deaths of at...
Are Zero Alcohol Products Normalizing Drinking for Teens?
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New research suggests the zero alcohol products (ZAP) trend has reached teens. But whether these beverages drive healthier behaviors, act as...
Serum Uric Acid Levels Predict NAFLD Risk in Nonobese Adults
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TOPLINE: Serum uric acid (SUA) levels independently predict nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD, now known as metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease)...
Lisa McHugh describes horror after baby daughter caught RSV
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Lisa McHugh Hallie was in hospital for 10 days and had to be fed through a tube County Fermanagh-based country music...
DEA Proposes a Special Registry for Telehealth Providers of Controlled Substances
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Physicians would have to register with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for telehealth prescribing of certain controlled substances under a proposed...
One Racial Group Is Less Likely to Go Through With Bariatric Surgery
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After patients with obesity discuss bariatric surgery with a clinician, racial disparities appeared to affect who moves forward with the procedure,...
Aortic Stenosis Outcomes Worsen With Cardiac Amyloidosis Also in the Picture
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AS plus ATTR-CA was associated with worse clinical outcomes than AS alone. Challenges of diagnosis stand in the way of timely...
Lawmakers Clash Over Whether Trump and His Nominees Will Hurt Public Health
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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle shared clashing views on the potential impacts of a second Trump administration...
Drug Used in Executions Under Trump May Cause ‘Unnecessary’ Suffering, DOJ Says
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The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government...
Do Stressed Out Surgeons Have Better or Worse Patient Outcomes?
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Surgeons with higher physiological stress in the first 5 minutes of surgery had fewer major surgical complications, a post-hoc analysis of...
Oregon Doctors, Nurses Have Been Striking for a Week
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Thousands of healthcare workers from Providence Health in Oregon now have been on strike for a week, following months of contract...
FDA Authorizes Marketing of Nicotine Pouches, a First for the Agency
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The FDA authorized the marketing of 20 different Zyn nicotine pouch products — the first brand to clear this regulatory hurdle...
Aspirin Fails to Boost Survival in Colorectal Cancer Trial
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Treating patients with aspirin after completion of standard adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer failed to significantly improve disease-free survival (DFS) and...
Survival Benefit With Adjuvant T-DM1 in High-Risk HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
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Women with high-risk HER2-positive breast cancer lived significantly longer with adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1, Kadcyla), according to long-term follow-up of a...
There’s No Place for Politics at the Bedside
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Zitter is a critical care and palliative care physician, and director of the forthcoming documentary, “The Chaplain and the Doctor.” Medicine...
Omvoh Approved for Crohn’s; Fitbit Predicts IBD Flares; H. Pylori and Gastric Cancer
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The FDA expanded the approval of mirikizumab (Omvoh) to include treatment of adults with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease, drugmaker...
Amid H5N1, CDC Wants Faster Influenza A Subtyping for Hospitalized Cases
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The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients — and on an accelerated timeline,...
Poor Air Quality PSA; In Defense of Doctors Who Google; Age-Defying Diagnoses
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The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. As wildfires continue to burn...
Mind-controlled robotic arm lets people with paralysis touch and feel
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“Oh my god, this arm is part of me,” says Scott Imbrie, who was able to use it to feel objects...
Army Doc Gets Over 13 Years in Prison for Sexually Abusing Soldiers
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A military doctor who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing dozens of male soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) was sentenced Wednesday...
Doc Jailed Over Circumcisions; Video Shows NICU Nurse Abusing Babies, Court Docs Say
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Former U.K. physician Mohammad Siddiqui will get 5 years and 7 months behind bars after admitting he caused “painful cruelty” to...
HHS Inspector General Raises Concerns Over FDA’s Accelerated Approvals
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The FDA needs to strengthen guardrails to ensure its accelerated approval pathway is used appropriately, the HHS Office of Inspector General...
Processed Red Meat Tied to Increased Dementia Risk
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Higher intake of processed red meat, including bacon, hot dogs, and bologna, is associated with a significantly elevated risk for cognitive...
Use of Supplement for Glaucoma May Come With Liver Toxicity, Experts Warn
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The American Glaucoma Society and American Academy of Ophthalmology are warning eye doctors to be aware of potentially toxic effects on...
Government to lead UK emergency pandemic exercise in autumn
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Emergency service teams, local councils and government officials will take part in a full, multi-day pandemic preparedness exercise, to help the...
Pope Injured; Dietitian Defends Ultraprocessed Foods; Woman Dies Midflight
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Pope Francis injured his right arm after a fall, requiring a sling,...
Over 2 Million Americans Projected to Get Cancer Diagnosis This Year
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The American Cancer Society projected approximately 2 million new cancer diagnoses and 618,000 new cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2025,...
Healthcare in the Mix in President Biden’s Farewell Address
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In a brief and somber farewell address to the nation on Wednesday night, President Biden touched on a number of his...
Getting Started as a Physician Entrepreneur
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Five years after starting a private practice, Colorado-based obesity medicine specialist Carolynn Francavilla, MD, was at risk of going under. The...
The evidence that suggests you don’t need alcohol as a social crutch this Dry...
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Will cutting back on alcohol impact our reader’s social life? Ian Dagnall/Alamy Following the excesses of the holidays, many of us...
T-DM1 Boosts Survival in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
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TOPLINE: Trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) demonstrates sustained improvement in invasive disease-free survival and reduced the risk for death in human epidermal growth...
PRP Considered Effective but Not Approved for Hair Loss
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NEW YORK — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to send letters advising clinicians that hair regenerative therapies are...
Private Equity Hospitals Have Worse Esophagectomy Outcomes
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TOPLINE: Patients undergoing esophagectomy at private equity–acquired health centers have an increased risk for mortality, surgical complications, and failure to rescue...
AI and the Future of Cosmetic Dermatology: Experts Weigh in
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While artificial intelligence (AI) is helping clinicians in medical dermatology improve diagnostic accuracy, streamline workflows, and develop patient treatment plans, its...
Fibromyalgia Pain Might Start in the Spinal Cord
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Anyone with fibromyalgia can tell you it hurts, but no one can yet explain what causes all those aches. A study...
CO2 Laser Improves Postburn Scar Healing in Skin of Color
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TOPLINE: In a cohort study, fractional CO2 laser therapy was effective in treating postburn hypertrophic scars, with significant improvements in scar...
Drugmakers Limit Cancer Patient Access to Financial Lifeline
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When Gury Doshi, MD, learned that a patient’s insurance didn’t cover her breast cancer medication, Doshi had a potential workaround. The...
ART Pregnancies Show Higher Teratogenic Medicine Use
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TOPLINE: Assisted reproductive technology (ART) pregnancies show higher exposure to potentially harmful category D medicines than other conception methods, with 4.9%...
What can we learn from a debunked theory of depression?
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We urgently need new ways to understand and treat depression FotografiaBasica/Getty Images Chemically ImbalancedJoanna Moncrieff (Flint Books) Joanna Moncrieff was a “precocious...
Infrequent Zoledronate at 50-60 Years Prevents Fractures
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Women in early menopause treated with zoledronate in just two infusions, 5 years apart, show a significantly reduced risk of sustaining...