Children placed in emergency care over lack of respite services
BBCRita Orr said she pleaded for two years to get extra support for her son, CallumThe mother of a teenager ...
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Novo Says Ozempic to Be Eligible for US Price Negotiations in Less Than a Year
(Reuters) - Novo Nordisk's blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic will be eligible for U.S. government's price negotiations in less than a ...
6 Types of Cancer Associated with Excessive Alcohol Use
Share on PinterestA new report highlights a strong association between excessive alcohol consumption and the risk of six different types ...
One in Three Former NFL Players Believe They Have CTE
Survey data reported that about a third of former NFL players believed they had CTE.Men with perceived CTE were twice ...
TESLA Trial: Does Timing Make or Break Thrombectomy for Large-Core Strokes?
The TESLA trial was unable to support a benefit to thrombectomy for stroke patients with large-core infarcts identified on noncontrast ...
CDC Alerts on Mpox Prevention for Patients Heading to Areas With Clade I Outbreaks
The CDC issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) update on Monday, emphasizing vaccination and patient education for U.S. travelers visiting ...
Prolonged Symptoms After Lyme Disease: What CDC Wants Doctors to Know
A new toolkit can help physicians navigate the management of patients with prolonged symptoms after antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease, ...
Study Indicates Who May Benefit Most From GA Treatment
A real-world retrospective study has shown that patients experiencing progressive daily vision loss from geographic atrophy (GA), a late form ...
Training on Cadavers Still Essential for Medical Students
New technologies have emerged for teaching anatomy to medical students, from full-size replica human models to virtual reality programs. But ...
JAK Inhibitors Edge Out Anti-TNFs for Pain Relief in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Targeted drugs for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not created equal when it comes to pain relief, a retrospective study from ...
Euphoric 2 Years Ago, Anti-Abortion Movement Now Divided, Worried as Election Nears
Just 2 years ago, leading anti-abortion activists were euphoric as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ...
Children with cancer may benefit from having a cat or dog ‘pen pal’
A drawing by a child who took part in the animal pen pal schemeCourtesy of YAPS and Anne Gillespie Seriously ...
Younger Patients Have More Regrets About Hysterectomy
Patients who had a hysterectomy at age 30 or younger had higher rates of regret compared with those who had ...
Mpox: Lessons From 2022 for Future Preparedness
Shah is a an internal medicine physician and hospitalist. The 2022 mpox outbreak caught many off guard, quickly spreading beyond ...
Perfecting the On-Call System | MedPage Today
Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 ...
Navigators Act as Trusted Guides for Rheumatology Patients
When a large rheumatology clinic in Richmond, Virginia, heard that Medicare would be reimbursing patient navigators, they decided to launch ...
Gamification Offers Youth Some Benefit in ADHD, Depression
Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) with game-like elements -- also known as gamification -- appeared to provide limited benefit for ...
FDA Approves Bimekizumab for Three Rheumatologic Conditions
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved bimekizumab-bkzx (Bimzelx; UCB) for adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA), active ...
10-Minute Intervention Boosts Health Worker Well-Being
In a randomized trial involving healthcare workers, a brief web-based intervention integrated into routine continuing medical education led to short-term ...
McDonald Criteria Revisions Signal Shift Toward MS as a Biologically Based Disease
An upcoming revised version of the McDonald diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS) will include new MS biomarkers, a panel ...
