Does Viagra ward off Alzheimer’s disease? It’s too soon to say
Viagra could treat many conditions beyond erectile dysfunctionDavid Cole/Alamy Anyone considering using Viagra as a treatment for impotence could be ...
Day: February 8, 2024
Two Doctors Face Down a Gunman While Saving His Victim
Emergencies happen anywhere and anytime, and sometimes, medical professionals find themselves in situations where they are the only ones who ...
Amid Surge, CDC Unveils New Syphilis Testing Guidance
The CDC has published its first comprehensive laboratory recommendations for syphilis testing. Published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, ...
New Evidence Suggests Long COVID Could Be a Brain Injury
Brain fog is one of the most common, persistent complaints in patients with long COVID. It affects as many as ...
Medical Schools Push Back on ‘March-In’ Rights Plan to Lower Drug Prices
Key stakeholders from academia and medicine are pushing back on a Biden administration proposal that would leverage "march-in rights" in ...
Applications Dipped in States With Abortion Restrictions
TOPLINE:States with abortion bans or gestational limits are seeing a small but statistically significant decrease in the percentage of applicants ...
Radial Access a Toss Up for Stroke Thrombectomy
PHOENIX -- Transradial access for endovascular thrombectomy was noninferior to standard transfemoral access, a single-center randomized trial showed. The rate ...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Shows Some Benefit After Breast Cancer Irradiation
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) was not effective for reducing pain, but was effective for reducing fibrosis, among women with late ...
Adding Antithrombotic to tPA Does Not Improve Stroke Outcome
Adding either argatroban or eptifibatide to thrombolytic therapy doesn't improve function following an ischemic stroke, results of new research show. "Ultimately, ...
Publisher Retracts Three Abortion Studies
Sage Journals retracted three abortion studies -- including two cited by a federal judge in a case against the abortion ...
Measles: West Midlands cases ‘disproportionately high’
Elsewhere there have been 62 cases in London, and 32 in Yorkshire and the Humber in the same period. The ...
Praise for Final Methadone, Buprenorphine Rule
Addiction treatment specialists and other clinicians are lauding a final federal rule they say will remove the stigma associated with ...
Lying Flat Shows Big Benefit in LVO Stroke
Patients with acute ischemic stroke who have large vessel occlusion (LVO) have shown an impressive benefit from having their head ...
Youth Mental Health in ‘Dire Straits’
More than 1 in 10 individuals between 5 and 24 years of age live with at least one diagnosable mental ...
Fast Stroke Thrombolysis Boosts Impact of Thrombectomy
PHOENIX -- Sooner is better for intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) given before mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke, a meta-analysis of ...
Even Moderate Radon Exposure Tied to Increased Stroke Risk
Exposure to even moderate concentrations of radon is associated with a significant increase in stroke risk, new research suggests.An analysis ...
Stigmatizing Language Common on Liver Transplant Websites
Stigmatizing words like "alcoholic" and "alcoholism" are frequently used on the websites of liver transplant centers, and this language may ...
Miley Cyrus-Assisted CPR; How Medical Students Watch ‘The Bachelor’; Prior Auth Woes
The following contains links to social media websites including X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Following the 2024 Grammy Awards, ...
Adjunctive Thrombolysis Doesn’t Boost tPA Benefits
PHOENIX -- Adjunctive thrombolysis with either argatroban or eptifibatide for acute ischemic stroke did not boost efficacy and contributed to ...
2024 Will See Major Advances in Glaucoma Care
Dry eye and glaucoma may be the two most confounding conditions ophthalmologists face. Late last year, the US Food and ...
NEWSHEALTH : 2024 Will See Major Advances in Glaucoma Care