Symptoms College Athlete Says She Experienced First
Share on PinterestEighteen-year-old college athlete Kylie Lough wasn’t aware young healthy people could have a stroke until she began to ...
Day: February 5, 2024
South Carolina Woman Sues Over State’s Six-week Abortion Ban
(Reuters) - A South Carolina woman, along with Planned Parenthood, on Monday filed a lawsuit asking a court to rule ...
PCOS Diagnosis Associated With Greater Risk for Suicide
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) may be as much as eight times more likely to attempt suicide as are ...
Selma Blair Lives with Chronic Pain from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Share on PinterestSelma Blair recently shared an update on her health, revealing that her MS is in remission and how ...
Vertex’s Triple Combo Cystic-fibrosis Drug Meets Main Late-stage Study Goals
(Reuters) -Vertex Pharmaceuticals' experimental cystic-fibrosis treatment met all of its main goals in a late-stage study when tested in patients ...
Premature Birth Rates Have Increased 12% in the Past Decade, but Why?
Share on PinterestPremature births in the U.S. have increased over the past decade, but the reasons are unclear. mkl/Getty ImagesA ...
Over 80% of Nurses Face Workplace Violence, Survey Finds
U.S. nurses reported a surge in workplace violence in post-pandemic times, according to a new survey from the nation's largest ...
Even With Alzheimer’s Pathology, Healthy Lifestyles May Preserve Cognition
Cognitive function was better for older adults with healthy lifestyles even if they had Alzheimer's or other dementia-related pathologies, autopsy ...
Suicide Risk 8-Fold Higher After Common Reproductive Disorder Diagnosis
Suicidality was substantially higher among women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to a Taiwanese population-based cohort study. PCOS-diagnosed ...
What Exactly Is a ‘Critical’ Medical Device? FDA Seeks Advice on the Issue
How do you determine whether a particular medical device is critical to public health? That is the topic to be ...
Simone Gold Reprimanded by California’s Medical Board
About 3 years after being arrested for participating in the January 6 Capitol riots, America's Frontline Doctors founder Simone Gold, ...
GLP-1s for Obesity: Your Questions Answered
The arrival of GLP-1 receptor agonists has revolutionized treatment options for people with obesity and medical practice.Medscape Medical News recently ...
Tirzepatide’s Association With BP Reduction Reinforced With ABPM Data
The once-weekly injectable tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) was associated with reduced blood pressure (BP) in a prospective substudy of the SURMOUNT-1 ...
What to Know About Nitazenes, a Class of Potent Synthetic Opioids
A class of synthetic opioids known as the nitazenes that are as potent as fentanyl -- or stronger -- have ...
Think Twice Before Drug Testing Your Black Patients
Zha is a family medicine doctor and a nonfiction writer. "We were stripped naked. We were asked to cough. It ...
All-Oral Therapy Promising in Higher-Risk MDS, CMML
An all-oral combination therapy appeared to show promising activity for patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia ...
Adding Apalutamide Boosts PSA Control in Prostate Cancer
TOPLINE:A new study revealed that the addition of apalutamide to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), with or without abiraterone acetate plus ...
Durable Weight Loss Follows Just a Few Injections of Novel Drug
A once-monthly injectable weight management agent safely induced durable weight loss in a phase I human trial. At the highest ...
Another PCSK9 Drug Proves Its Mettle for Kids With Inherited High Cholesterol
For kids with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) uncontrolled by statins, adding alirocumab (Praluent) reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), a randomized ...
The Perennial Problem of No-Show Appointments
Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 ...
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