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How to Better Manage ‘No Show’ Appointments
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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....
Most Antiviral Drugs Showed Limited or No Effects Against Flu
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Antiviral drugs commonly used to treat non-severe influenza appeared to have little or no effect on key clinical outcomes, except for...
Attempted murder charge after nurse stabbed
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A man has been charged with attempted murder after a nurse was stabbed at a hospital and left with life-changing injuries....
US Dementia Cases Projected to Double Within 40 Years
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The number of US adults who will develop dementia each year is projected to increase from approximately 514,000 in 2020 to...
Top FDA Official Exits; SCOTUS Takes Up Obamacare Case; Texas Doc Suspended
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD, will step down from her role as FDA’s director...
Lilly Sues Two Medical Spas Over Copycat Weight-loss Drugs
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(Reuters) -Eli Lilly said on Monday it has sued two medical spas for selling unapproved products claiming to contain tirzepatide, the...
High Radon Levels Linked to Gestational Diabetes
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New data link higher county-level radon exposure to gestational diabetes (GD) in women who haven’t previously given birth, emphasizing the need...
‘I feel blessed to get Wegovy weight-loss jab’
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BBC Ray says he feels “lucky” to have had access to the drug via the NHS, especially now he is a...
Canadian Family Physicians Seeing Fewer Patients on Average
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The number of patients that family physicians see has declined, according to the latest report by the Canadian Institute for Health...
Endocrinology Researcher Receives Top American Science Award
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Reproductive endocrinology researcher Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, has been awarded a National Medal of Science for her pioneering work in preserving...
Red Wine May Not Be a Health Tonic, But Is It a Cancer Risk?
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The evidence is clear: Alcohol can cause cancer. Earlier this month, US surgeon general Vivek Murthy, MD, issued an advisory, calling...
California Ambulance Offload Times Exceed State Standards
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TOPLINE: Almost half of California’s local Emergency Medical Service (EMS) agencies report ambulance offload delays exceeding the 30-minute standard, according to...
Why ‘Resilience’ Can Be a Loaded Term for Healthcare Workers
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In the medical field, the term “resilience” routinely makes the rounds. Psychologists define it as the process of successfully adapting to...
10 Actionable Resolutions to Combat Cancer in the New Year
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Did you know that 1 in 5 people worldwide would face a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime? Cancer is the leading...
Around 5% of US Population Diagnosed With Autoimmune Disease
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TOPLINE: In 2022, autoimmune diseases affected over 15 million individuals in the United States, with women nearly twice as likely to...
NECTORS for Advanced HPV-Related Head and Neck Cancer?
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TOPLINE: Compared with standard concurrent chemoradiation, neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by transoral robotic surgery (NECTORS) and neck dissection led to superior distant...
‘There’s No Cops on the Beat’: What We Heard This Week
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“A lot of this stuff that happens is because there’s no cops on the beat.” — Vikas Saini, MD, president of...
Mpox Clade I in the U.S. Should Be a Wake-Up Call
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Madad is a chief biopreparedness officer. Kindrachuk is an associate professor in medical microbiology and infectious diseases, and a research chair...
Biomarker May Flag Humira Responders in Hidradenitis Suppurativa
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Serum level of inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) predicted response to adalimumab (Humira) treatment for patients with hidradenitis suppurativa, post hoc...
What Was an FDA Warning on Two RSV Vaccines About?
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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,...
Diabetes Med for Kidney Stones? Exercise and Heart Failure
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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...
What Botox Teaches Us About Serendipity in Clinical Encounters
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Cooper is a pulmonary/critical care physician and associate professor of medicine. The story of botulinum toxin (Botox) as a medical treatment...
Therapist Says Online Program LifeMD Helped Her Lose 67 Pounds
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Share on PinterestTherapist Debby Parker tried to lose weight for years without success. Then she discovered an online weight management program...
Could a mango flavoured pill end intestinal worms?
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A new tablet being developed to cure intestinal worms has shown promising results in trials and could help eradicate the parasitic...
FDA Panel Backs Injection for Leg Pain Caused by Herniated Discs
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FDA advisors largely supported the regulatory approval of condoliase for nerve pain associated with lumbar disc herniation (LDH) if it can...
Future of Lab-Developed Tests Still Taking Shape
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As the new Congress and a new administration start up, the fate of FDA-issued regulations on laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) is one...
Bone Mineral Density Deficits Prevalent Among Childhood Cancer Survivors
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Survivors of childhood cancer face challenges from bone mineral density (BMD) deficits due to treatment exposures and other factors, some of...
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation After Tai Chi Improves Sleep in Older Adults
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) added to tai chi chuan exercise improved sleep and cognition in older adults who had both...
Thousands of Providence Health Workers Strike in Oregon
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Nearly 5,000 healthcare workers from Providence Health began a strike Friday morning, picketing all eight Providence hospitals in Oregon, after months...
A Win for AI in Cancer; 2025’s Transformative Drugs; FDA Clarifies ‘Underway’ Trials
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An artificial intelligence (AI) system used in a nationwide breast cancer screening program increased cancer detection with breast CT and mammography....
I Managed Wildfire Response for a Health System. Here’s What I Learned.
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Mary Meyer MD, MPH, is an emergency physician with The Permanente Medical Group. She also holds a Master of Public Health...
Shorter TB Treatment Recommended for Kids, Adults
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Shorter duration, fully oral treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB) are now recommended for most adults and children. Updated joint guidelines from...
Novel Combo With Engineered NK Cells in Early Trial for Breast Cancer
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At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Margaret Gatti-Mays, MD, MPH, of the Ohio State University in Columbus, discussed the ongoing...
In Los Angeles, People Snap Up Air Filters and Wear Masks Against Smoke Pollution
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LOS ANGELES — With levels of sooty air pollution far too high across swaths of the Los Angeles area, Dana Benton...
Higher Dose of Atropine Eye Drops Slowed Myopia Progression in Kids
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Children with myopia using 0.05% atropine eye drops had less myopia progression and/or less axial elongation compared with those using placebo...
Growing ‘Medical Freedom’ Movement Poses Challenge for Public Health
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The “medical freedom” movement that has gained traction in the U.S. since the COVID-19 pandemic could continue to push public health...
Georgia Stem Cell Companies Banned From Marketing Their Treatments
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Three Georgia companies and their principals have been banned from continuing their “bogus claims” that their stem cell therapy could treat...
Do TNF Inhibitors Really Worsen RA-Associated Lung Disease?
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Worries that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors may exacerbate or even cause lung disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are...
Vedolizumab Maintenance Safe and Effective for Kids With IBD
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Maintenance treatment with vedolizumab (Entyvio) appeared to be safe and effective in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with greater effectiveness...
High Levels of Radon Exposure: Risk Factor for Gestational Diabetes?
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Exposure to radon was linked to an increased risk for gestational diabetes, a population-based cohort study suggested. Among 9,107 mothers-to-be, those...
Over 17,000 Docs Reject RFK Jr.; Trump’s Disease-Border Plan; Afib and Eye Strokes
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A letter signed by more than 17,000 doctors urges Senators to reject...
Gene-edited cells that evade rejection show promise in type 1 diabetes
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A transmission electron micrograph of a section through pancreas tissue, showing cells that produce insulin STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy The first...
High Dose Atropine Curbs Myopia in Kids Despite Side Effects
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TOPLINE: According to a secondary analysis of the 24- Month Myopia Outcome Study of Atropine in Children (MOSAIC) trial, 0.05% atropine...
AGA Issues Guidance on Using P-CABs
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Clinicians generally shouldn’t use potassium-competitive acid blockers (P-CAB) as first-line therapy for acid-related conditions, nonerosive gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or peptic...
Metronomic Therapy Shows Promise in Breast Cancer
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TOPLINE: Metronomic capecitabine combined with an aromatase inhibitor extends median progression-free survival to 20.9 months compared with 11.9 months for aromatase...
How Long Does It Take to See a Neurologist?
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On average, older adults waited 34 days for a new visit to a neurologist after a referral, and nearly 20% waited...
New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know
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A new federal rule could force hospitals and doctors’ groups to boost health cybersecurity measures to better protect patients’ health information...
What’s the Best Approach for Sustained Weight Loss?
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Given that more than 100 million US adults have obesity, including 22 million with severe obesity, physicians regularly see patients with...
Are Patients On GLP-1s Getting the Right Nutrients?
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As the use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) continues to exponentially expand obesity treatment, concerns have arisen regarding...
Long-Term Budesonide Shows Sustained Efficacy in EoE
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TOPLINE: Budesonide orodispersible tablets (BOTs) maintain remission and improve quality of life (QOL) in a majority of adults with eosinophilic esophagitis...