Medics plead for vaccines as rate of infections increases
Glody MurhabaziMore and more babies with mpox are being admitted to Lwiro community hospitalMedical staff on the front line of ...
Day: September 10, 2024
Mammograms Will Include Breast Density In Reports
Share on PinterestThe FDA will now require all mammography reports to include whether a person has breast density, which is ...
Liraglutide Helped Cut BMI in Kids With Obesity as Young as 6
Liraglutide (Saxenda) added to lifestyle intervention helped reduce BMI in young children with obesity, the phase IIIa SCALE Kids trial ...
The Invisible Epidemic of Childhood Food Insecurity
Nguyen, Le, Devineni, and Wilson are medical students. Bowers is a pediatric nurse and a medical student. Howell-McLean is an ...
Go After the Big E-Cigarette Makers, Not Vape Shops, House Members Tell FDA
Members of a House committee examining FDA's regulation of the food and tobacco industries had a question for the agency's ...
Woman Claims Weight Loss Drug Led to Colon Removal
Share on PinterestA woman is suing the maker of Ozempic, claiming severe side effects from the weight loss drug resulted ...
Is Football Safe for Kids?
Several young football players died while playing the sport so far this year, raising the perpetual question of whether football ...
Added Plinabulin Boosts OS as Later-Line Treatment for EGFR Wild-Type NSCLC
Adding the investigational agent plinabulin to docetaxel in the second and third line of treatment significantly improved overall survival (OS) ...
Burdensome Therapy for Severe Hypoxemia in COPD Patients Is Overkill, Trial Says
The decades-long practice of prescribing long-term oxygen for 24 hours a day to patients with severe hypoxemia from chronic lung ...
MET Inhibitor Increases Osimertinib Activity in EGFR+ Advanced NSCLC
Adding a mutation-specific targeted drug to osimertinib (Tagrisso) substantially increased the objective response rate (ORR) in newly diagnosed EGFR-mutant, MET-aberrant ...
Princess Kate Has Completed Chemotherapy for Cancer
Following abdominal surgery in 2024, surgeons removed some tissue from Catherine’s abdomen, which was later tested and found to be ...
Weekly Insulin Efsitora Noninferior to Daily Degludec in Type 1, Type 2 Diabetes
An investigational once-weekly insulin was noninferior to a daily option for patients with type 2 diabetes, but proved risky for ...
Defibrillator Positioning; PFA for PVC Ablation; Harvey Weinstein’s Heart Surgery
Not all defibrillator pad positions may work equally well for patients with shockable out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. (JAMA Network Open) Medical ...
Alzheimer’s and X Chromosomes; Identifying Pediatric MOGAD; Vladimir Lenin’s Death
A large-scale X chromosome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease identified SLC9A7 as a novel risk locus. (JAMA Neurology) Investigational fosgonimeton ...
Finerenone Reduces T2D Onset in HF With Preserved EF
MADRID, Spain — The nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) finerenone reduced the incidence of new-onset type 2 diabetes by approximately ...
U.K. Hospital Where Nurse Was Convicted of Murdering 7 Babies Faces Investigation
A hospital in northwest England where a neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill seven ...
FDA Advisors Question Potential Role of Novel Oral UTI Antibiotic
An FDA advisory committee raised concerns on Monday about the potential for antibiotic resistance with and inappropriate use of a ...
What Can We Learn From Blood Culture Bottle Shortage?
Mehta and Wynia are the co-chairs of the Medical Advisory Panel of the Mountain Plains Regional Disaster Health Response System. ...
The ESMO Congress Starts This Week in Barcelona
More than 30,000 people will descend on Barcelona, Spain, this week for the 2024 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) ...
Questions Linger About Missouri Patient Who Contracted Bird Flu
Many questions remain unanswered in the case of the Missouri patient who contracted H5 bird flu without any known exposure ...
