How a home DNA test finally revealed the truth
Family handoutSusan was no more than puzzled when she saw the first results from her home DNA testing kit.Now a ...
Embattled TAVR Device Myval Meets Expectations in Trial, but Trouble Still Ahead
(MedPage Today) -- For a balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR or TAVI) platform, the much-litigated Myval performed well enough ...
Switch to Tirzepatide in T2D More Effective Than Upping Dulaglutide Dose
(MedPage Today) -- Diabetes patients on dulaglutide (Trulicity) had better glycemic control and more weight loss if they switched to ...
NIOSH Workers Wonder, ‘Who Is Going to Carry on My Work?’
(MedPage Today) -- This week's cuts to HHS staffing have left employees at one agency division wondering what will become ...
Medicare Spends Billions on Oncology Drugs Offering Little Added Benefit
(MedPage Today) -- In an analysis of Medicare's top-selling brand-name oncology drugs, researchers found that while the vast majority provided ...
AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia
Wikipedia is under threat from the AI boomChris Dorney / Alamy Wikipedia is one of the greatest knowledge resources ever ...
WARRIOR Underscores Burden of Nonobstructive Angina in Women
In women with signs of ischemia but no obstructive coronary artery disease (OCAD), intensive medical therapy did not reduce the ...
Cannibal spiders have strange trick to stop their siblings eating them
Some spider species eat their siblings, especially when food is scarceDavid VILLA/SCIENCEIMAGE CBI CNRS A species of spider avoids cannibalising ...
Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy for Glioma Shows Clinical Management Potential
(MedPage Today) -- Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with glioma had a high concordance with ...
Amid Measles Outbreaks, Poison Centers See Uptick in Vit A Exposures in Kids
(MedPage Today) -- Poison control centers have received more reports of vitamin A exposures than usual -- a trend that ...
Largest ever US honeybee die-off has destroyed 1.6 million colonies
Honeybees are vulnerable to seasonal die-offsNicholas Klein/Alamy Honeybees in the US may have just experienced their most severe die-off on ...
FDA Approves First and Only Therapy for IgG4-RD
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the B-cell depleting agent inebilizumab-cdon (Uplizna, Amgen) for the treatment of ...
Wind farm developers are worried about neighbours stealing their wind
Turbines extract energy from wind, slowing down the wind in their wakeChris James / Alamy Imagine you have just built ...
Can Antibiotic Duration Be Individualized for Febrile UTI in Kids?
(MedPage Today) -- For children with febrile urinary tract infection (UTI), stopping antibiotic treatment 3 days after clinical improvement increased ...
AI Ophthalmology Notes Tied to Improved Communication With Other Docs
(MedPage Today) -- Use of large language model (LLM)-generated plain language summaries for ophthalmology notes was associated with improved understanding ...
Judge to Temporarily Block Billions in Health Funding Cuts to States
(MedPage Today) -- A federal judge will temporarily block President Trump's administration from cutting billions in federal dollars that support ...
Policy Fallout Continues; Rise in Lung Cancer Screening; Going Public With Denials
(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration fired the entire staff of the CDC Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice, ...
CDC’s Office of Smoking and Health Eliminated
(MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) was eliminated in its entirety during the mass layoffs ...
How Doctors Can Adapt to the Digital Communication Revolution
(MedPage Today) -- A 60-year-old patient of mine was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. He described the treatment options that ...
Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the US’s public health
The US anti-vaccine movement is now firmly embedded in the highest levels of government, where those overseeing public health agencies ...
