Texas Can Ban Emergency Abortions Despite Federal Guidance, Court Rules
(Reuters) - The U.S. government cannot enforce federal guidance in Texas requiring emergency room doctors to perform abortions if necessary ...
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Paramagnetic Seeds: An Effective Option for Breast Lesion Localization
Paramagnetic seeds along with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) was an effective combination for nonpalpable breast lesion localization and sentinel lymph ...
Emotional Intelligence Must Guide Artificial Intelligence
Lazarus is an adjunct professor of psychiatry and a regular commentator on the practice of medicine. I don't understand the ...
Postpartum anxiety: Why do people get it and how can we treat it?
Dannielle Bahri had done everything she could to prepare for having her first child. She registered for CPR classes. She ...
HCM Drug Hopeful; Pre-Cardiac Cath Fasting in Doubt; Way to Visualize LAAO Issues?
Even in states with laws requiring athletic facilities to have an on-site automated external defibrillator (AED), the odds of bystander ...
Alzheimer’s Paper Retracted; Pets and Human Cognition; Long COVID Internal Tremors
Nature retracted another Alzheimer's paper led by former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD, identifying anomalies in a 2009 study of ...
Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms: A ‘Silver Lining’?
Often known as a "silent killer," ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAAs) may grow asymptomatically until they rupture, at which point, ...
ChatGPT Misdiagnosed Most Pediatric Cases
A large language model (LLM)-based chatbot gave the wrong diagnosis for the majority of pediatric cases, researchers found. ChatGPT version ...
Lower Insulin Costs; Older Folks Want Obesity Meds Covered; Global Ozempic Woes
More Americans can expect lower insulin costs in 2024 as new $35-a-month price caps are set to go into effect ...
Extreme Heat and Hypoglycemia Risk in Older Insulin Users
TOPLINE:Older adults (aged ≥ 65 years) with diabetes who received insulin may have an increased risk for serious hypoglycemic events ...
Novel Alzheimer’s Trials Evaluate Senolytics, Semaglutide, CRISPR, and More
In July, we reported that lecanemab (Leqembi) won full FDA approval to treat Alzheimer's disease. In this article, we look ...
How Psychiatry Is Tackling the Surge of Climate Anxiety
In recent years, the stark reality of climate change has come to the fore. Record-setting heat waves and devastating wildfires ...
Hospitals Often Failed to Switch From IV to Oral Antibiotics in Eligible Patients
Fewer than half of hospitalized patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections transitioned from intravenous to oral antibiotics by day 7, a ...
Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World’s 1st Partial Heart Transplant
The newborn that received the world's first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according ...
Nonprofit Hospital Boards on the Firing Line
David Nash is the Founding Dean Emeritus and Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at ...
Who, and What, Are They Good For?
(Reuters) - Powerful weight-loss medicines like Novo Nordisk's Wegovy leapt into public view in 2023, from social media to doctors' ...
Explainer-What Other Health Conditions Might Weight-loss Drugs Treat?
(Reuters) - Novo Nordisk's blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic and weight-loss therapy Wegovy are being studied to see whether they can ...
Sidney Wolfe, Co-Founder of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, Dies at 86
Sidney Wolfe, MD, co-founder of Public Citizen's Health Research Group and a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship Award -- also ...
Window for Post-Stroke Antiplatelet Therapy Can Be Extended
TOPLINE:Combined clopidogrel and aspirin initiated within 72 hours of a stroke is associated with a lower risk for a new ...
Probiotics help treat recurring urinary tract infections
Taking a vaginal probiotic, either on its own or with an oral probiotic, for four months reduced the incidence of ...
NEWSHEALTH : Texas Can Ban Emergency Abortions Despite Federal Guidance, Court Rules