Bipolar Disorder May Raise Risk for PCOS
Women with bipolar disorder were three times more likely than were healthy controls to experience polycystic ovarian syndrome, based on ...
Day: November 17, 2023
Child and Teen Cancer Deaths Declined 24% Over 20 Years: CDC
The cancer death rate for children and young people up to age 19 went down 24% from 2001 to 2021, ...
Sepsis Death Greater in Black Kids Despite Like Interventions
WASHINGTON – Black children had 2.5 greater odds than White children of dying from sepsis in the hospital, despite no significantly different ...
UK Taking ‘Leisurely’ Approach to Tackling Obesity: Lawmakers
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government is taking a "leisurely" approach to tackling unhealthy eating habits and needs to do more ...
FDA Panel Voices Concerns Over Two Lymphoma Rushed Approvals
U.S. government advisers expressed discomfort with Acrotech Biopharma's 2030 target completion date for a study meant to prove the clinical ...
FDA Expands Enzalutamide Approval to Earlier Prostate Cancer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved enzalutamide (Xtandi, Astellas and Pfizer) for men with nonmetastatic castration-sensitive prostate ...
Before Signing an Offer Letter: Read This
You've just received an offer letter from that job you interviewed for. Sometimes you want to let the employer know ...
Algorithm Cuts Time to Incision in Urgent Cesarean Deliveries
Use of a standard algorithm significantly reduced the time from decision to incision in urgent, unscheduled cesarean deliveries, based on ...
A Long COVID Clinic’s Fight to Meet Crushing Patient Needs
Janna Friedly was thrilled, hopeful — and relieved — by the email that had landed in her inbox: After years ...
Albuminuria Reduction Fuels Finerenone’s Kidney Benefits
PHILADELPHIA – Reducing albuminuria is a key mediator of the way finerenone (Kerendia, Bayer) reduces adverse renal and cardiovascular events in ...
Novel Agent Seladelpar Improves Markers of PBC Activity
BOSTON — Seladelpar, a first-in-class investigational agent that targets multiple cell types and processes in primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), was ...
Tool May Help Boost Confidence in Ability to Recall Memories
A novel approach aimed at enhancing everyday memory may lead older adults to feel more confident that they can accurately ...
Oral Therapy Shown to Preserve Retina in Stargardt Disease
SAN FRANCISCO — A modified form of vitamin A designed to be taken orally has been found to slow the ...
Drug Candidate for Chronic Cough Rejected by FDA Panel
FDA advisors told the agency that the current evidence does not support approval of gefapixant for chronic cough, a condition ...
Higher-Dose Fluvoxamine Fails for COVID Outpatients
The extensive quest to repurpose a cheap therapy for non-hospitalized COVID patients has once again fallen short, this time using ...
The pandemic helped some children develop their vocabulary
Spending more time at home may have benefited some childrenChristopher Hope-Fitch/Getty Images A study of 1400 preschool children in Canada ...
Can a Mediterranean Diet Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence?
TOPLINE: Overall, making comprehensive dietary changes in line with a Mediterranean diet did not reduce women's risk for breast cancer ...
Electronic pill monitors your breathing and heart rate from your gut
The device contains an accelerometer that measures breathing and heart rate by detecting vibrations in the gutBen Pless A smart ...
Early Breast Cancer Detection From Breast Milk
Breast cancer has a worse prognosis when diagnosed during pregnancy or postpartum. Methods for early detection are needed, as evidenced ...
FDA OKs First-Line Pembro With Chemo for Gastric/GEJ Cancer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck) with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing ...
NEWSHEALTH : FDA OKs First-Line Pembro With Chemo for Gastric/GEJ Cancer