FDA Authorizes New Drug to Protect Immunocompromised People
The FDA has authorized a new treatment that may help immunocompromised people be protected from COVID-19. The treatment is a ...
Day: March 29, 2024
How Olivia Munn’s Doctor Helped Calculate Her Breast Cancer Risk
Share on PinterestDr. Thaïs Aliabadi (pictured above) shares how she calculated actor Olivia Munn’s Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score, which ...
Puerto Rico Declares Emergency After Viral Cases Spike
Puerto Rico’s health department has declared an emergency due to dengue.Cases of dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases are surging this ...
Medical Thoracoscopy Not the Only Good Way to Biopsy Complex Pleural Effusion
For the diagnosis of people with pleural effusion, an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) ...
What Is Former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Doing Now?
In the time since she stepped down from her position in June 2023, former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, ...
Is Alzheimer’s Transmissible Through Bone Marrow Cells?
A mouse experiment suggested familial Alzheimer's disease may be transmitted through bone marrow stem cells, but the implications of the ...
Are Trump Voters Predisposed to COVID Vax Side Effects?!
Republicans may be more likely to perceive and report side effects after COVID shots, including serious adverse events (AEs), findings ...
Starting Treatment at Discharge for Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays Shows Benefits
Starting medication for alcohol use disorder (MAUD) at hospital discharge reduced readmission risk, a cohort study suggested. Of nearly 10,000 ...
Culprit Lesion PCI Before Diagnostic Angiography for Faster STEMI Reperfusion
Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary ...
Tooth loss linked to early signs of Alzheimer’s disease
A brain region critical for memory is smaller in older adults with fewer than 10 teeth than in those who ...
The Cancer Journey Is Not Unique to the Royals
Saldanha is a Chief Innovation Officer. Phull is an oncologist and physician scientist. The royal family in the U.K. has ...
Chemo and Heart Disease; Flawed Lung Cancer Screening; New Vax Recommendations
An author shares his own story about the "pay me now or pay me later" relationship between cancer chemotherapy and ...
Why Do So Many Doctors Embrace Superstitions and Rituals?
The second-floor operating rooms at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania, are numbered sequentially — except when you get to ...
Pessary or Progesterone for Preterm Birth? Advantage Med
TOPLINE:A study comparing cervical pessary and vaginal progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth in women with a short cervix ...
MedPod Today: IMGs Skip Residency? Butt Lift Gone Wrong; Medicine’s Gender Gap
The following is a transcript of the podcast episode: Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody, welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series ...
Active Cancer Surveillance Doesn’t Increase Malpractice Risk
TOPLINE:Despite concerns about malpractice risk among physicians, investigators found no successful malpractice litigation related to active surveillance as a management ...
CDC: Alarming Rise in Serogroup Y Meningococcal Disease
Clinicians should be alert for invasive serogroup Y meningococcal disease in at-risk populations and those with unusual symptoms amid the ...
U.S. Tuberculosis Cases Reach Highest Level in a Decade
The number of U.S. tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2023 were the highest in a decade, a CDC report showed. Forty ...
Heat Exposure Tied to Acute Immune Changes
Short-term exposure to high outdoor temperatures is associated with an increased inflammatory response and reduction in infection-fighting cells, new research ...
DNA sequencing may give hope to critically ill adults in hospital
Scientists genetically analysed stored blood samples collected during the Penn Medicine BioBank studyDaniel Burke Photography/Penn Medicine BioBank Being in intensive ...
