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‘I went in for a tackle and heard my neck snap’
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Luke Orton was playing in a rugby tournament in 2023 when his life changed forever Luke Orton was playing in a...
Services will close over National Insurance rise, Mencap tells BBC
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BBC Barry and Betty’s service is not under threat, but Mencap fears it will have to close others A leading charity...
State ‘Gold Card’ Laws Sound Good — But Are They Working?
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Have you wished you could be exempt from prior authorizations, especially because your procedures or prescriptions are almost always approved? That’s...
Generous Blood Transfusions Not Beneficial for Some With Burst Brain Aneurysms
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For people with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and anemia, there was no significant neurological benefit from getting red blood cell transfusions more...
USPSTF Plans Changes to Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) plans to add self-collected human papillomavirus (HPV) testing to its recommendations for cervical cancer...
More Beans, Less Red Meat: Nutritionists Weigh in on U.S. Dietary Guidelines
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Americans should eat more beans, peas, and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables, all while...
Some Kratom Products Contain Lead at Dangerous Levels for Children
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NEW ORLEANS — A large portion of products made with the herbal supplement kratom contained more lead than is safe for...
Brain Aging Biomarkers; Midlife Anxiety and Dementia Risk; Who Chose Assisted Dying?
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Researchers identified 13 proteins that predicted how quickly or slowly a person’s brain aged. (Nature Aging) Midlife anxiety was common decades...
HEARTS Act Gets Senate Vote; New Myocarditis Classes; Aftermath of PAD Device Scare
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The office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that this week he will bring the HEARTS Act, the bipartisan...
Arrhythmia Risk of Lamotrigine Questioned by Observational Data
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LOS ANGELES — The FDA’s warning about arrhythmia risk with lamotrigine (Lamictal) based on in vitro data wasn’t borne out in...
Transplantation Fails to Improve Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
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SAN DIEGO — Patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) after induction therapy did not live...
Half-Truths, Big Risks: The Dangers of an Incomplete Medical History
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Bitterman is an orthopedic surgeon. Honesty is the lifeblood of the doctor-patient relationship. Without it, even the most skilled physician is...
Benefits of Transplant for Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Add Up a Decade Later
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SAN DIEGO — Kids with sickle cell disease who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) had fewer serious disease complications along...
Masking Policies Show Clear Impact on Hospital-Onset Respiratory Infections
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In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Theodore Pak, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, discusses the findings from a...
What Happened to the Canadian Teen Who Became Critically Ill With H5N1 Bird Flu?
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Canadian public health officials closed their investigation into the teenager who became critically ill with the H5N1 bird flu virus, with...
Lentiviral Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Severe Hemophilia A
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SAN DIEGO — Results from a small single-center study showed that treatment with a gene therapy involving the use of lentiviral...
I Am Torn: Grappling With the Killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
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Young is a family medicine physician and nocturnist. I am torn. I have the devil whispering in one ear, telling me...
Alecensa (alectinib) Offers Hope for Certain Patients With ALK Positive NSCLC
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When Matt was diagnosed with ALK-positive (ALK+) metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC), his world turned upside down. It’s a moment...
Year in Review: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
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Developments in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) this year included the first CAR T-cell therapy approval for the chronic blood cancer, potential...
Suspect in UnitedHealthcare Killing Wrote ‘Parasites Simply Had it Coming’
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Police arrested a “strong person of interest” Monday in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after a quick-thinking McDonald’s employee...
Novel Drug Fails for Two Rare Seizure Disorders
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LOS ANGELES — The novel agent soticlestat flopped in a pair of phase III trials for rare seizure disorders, researchers reported...
AI Screening of Home Videos Proves Accurate for Infantile Seizure Detection
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LOS ANGELES — An artificial intelligence (AI) model accurately detected and ruled out infantile epileptic spasm syndrome in videos captured by...
Empathetic Phone Calls Help Vulnerable Diabetes Patients Lower HbA1c
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Empathy-oriented phone calls from laypersons helped patients with uncontrolled diabetes improve glycemic control, a parallel-arm superiority trial found. Among 260 participants,...
‘Parasites Simply Had it Coming’; Second U.S. Kid With Bird Flu? Rx for Solar...
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old suspect in last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO...
The Multipronged Problem of Candida auris
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Candida auris, a yeast-like fungus, is spreading globally, increasing the urgency for enhanced surveillance, new therapies, and more antimicrobial stewardship to...
Women Who Revolutionized Modern Medicine
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In the winter semester of 2023, there were 113,383 students enrolled in medical programs in Germany, 73,244 of whom were women....
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,...