How Aspirin May Help Lower Your Risk
Share on PinterestNew research suggests that low dose aspirin may help enhance your immune system and lower your risk of ...
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Does Evidence Fully Support Antibiotic Use for Acute Sinusitis in Kids?
Use of antibiotics for acute sinusitis in children reduces treatment failures, a meta-analysis showed, but the results may also support ...
Is There a Vaccine for H5N1 Influenza?
On the heels of a multi-state outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) in dairy cows, experts told MedPage ...
HHS Issues Final Rule to Protect Privacy of Reproductive Healthcare Data
Patients who share their health information -- including reproductive health information -- with providers and health plans have the right ...
Hands-On Treatment May Help in Knee Osteoarthritis
Acupressure performed by patients on their own was at least somewhat effective for relieving symptoms of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in ...
Why This Former Disney Star Started a Second Career as a Nurse
Share on PinterestActor Jennifer Stone may be best known for playing the role of Harper Finkle in the hit Disney ...
Loss of Anti-TNF Treatment Response Common in Crohn’s Disease
Approximately two-thirds of patients with Crohn's disease who initially responded to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors lost response by the ...
New Urine Test May Help Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies
A prostate cancer biomarker test that utilizes 17 genetic markers has demonstrated a high degree of accuracy in screening for ...
Breast Milk Enema Helps Preterm Infants Pass Meconium
A breast milk enema resulted in faster meconium evacuation and a shorter time to enteral feeding compared with a saline ...
Modest Changes in Kids’ Developmental Scores Seen From Pandemic
Young children who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated modest changes in developmental screening scores, according to a cohort study ...
Ex-Con Charged With Murdering Home Care Nurse
A convicted rapist was charged with murder and attempted sexual assault Friday in the killing of a visiting nurse at ...
Novel Drug Made of Gold Nanocrystals Appears Safe in Multiple Sclerosis
DENVER -- An oral suspension of clean-surfaced gold nanocrystals known as CNM-Au8 was safe and well-tolerated in patients with stable ...
Ozempic Hiatus Before Surgery: Is a Weeklong Pause Really Needed?
Continued use of a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist leading up to surgery may not increase the risk for ...
Neurotechnology Development Must Be Slow and Steady
Murray is a neuroscientist and post-doctoral fellow. Through my work as a neuroscientist who designs neural implants to monitor the ...
MedPod Deep Dive: More Problems With For-Profit Nursing Schools
The following is a transcript of the podcast episode: Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody. Welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series ...
Make the Diagnosis: Why Does This Young Woman Have Discoloration on Her Back?
Presentation A 24-year-old woman visited her doctor about discoloration that developed on her back over the past 3 months. The ...
Getting in Touch, Figuring It All Out
Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 ...
Underweight, but Not Obesity, Linked to Glaucoma Progression
A higher body mass index (BMI) was significantly associated with slower rates of retinal nerve fiber layer change among patients ...
Toxic: How the Search for COVID’s Origins Turned Politically Poisonous
The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series ...
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Surge: Europe Sounds the Alarm
The latest data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reveal a concerning uptick in vaccine-preventable diseases ...
