‘Broken NHS’ message causing growing unease, health sources tell BBC
Getty ImagesWes Streeting has declared the NHS "broken"There is growing unease within the NHS about the government’s "broken" messaging, the ...
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‘Parks and Rec’ Actor Retta Opens Up About Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis
Share on Pinterest“Parks and Recreation” star Retta is sharing how she learned to improve her glucose health after being diagnosed ...
US FDA Approves IntraBio’s Drug for Rare Genetic Disease
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved IntraBio's drug for a rare and fatal genetic disorder, the health regulator ...
‘Stop Ripping Us Off’: Senate Goes After Ozempic-Maker Over Pricing
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday challenged Novo Nordisk's CEO to lower the cost of semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) during a ...
Senators Tangle Over Impact of Dobbs Abortion Decision
WASHINGTON -- Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearing on how the Dobbs decision affected women's access to care featured arguments over ...
ASCO’s Quality Care Symposium: Chemotherapy Shortage Resulted in Higher Costs
Studies presented at the upcoming American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Quality Care Symposium in San Francisco will look at ...
Immunotherapy May Not Benefit All Gastroesophageal Cancer Patients, FDA Staff Says
An FDA advisory committee will consider whether PD-L1 expression cutoffs should guide use of checkpoint inhibitors to treat advanced gastroesophageal ...
Psilocybin for Depression May Be More Effective Than Antidepressants
Share on PinterestA new study compared psilocybin with a common SSRI and found that both drugs improved symptoms, while psilocybin ...
AMA Responds to PA Group’s Policy Truce Letters
The president of the American Medical Association (AMA) responded to two previous letters from the American Academy of Physician Associates ...
Flavonoid-Dementia Link; Political Beliefs and the Brain; Ethics of Brain Biopsies
Flavonoid-rich foods like tea, red wine, and berries were tied to a lower risk of dementia, data from the U.K. ...
An Action Plan for Hypertension in Pregnancy
Graves is a high-risk ob/gyn and maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist. Tsigas is CEO of the Preeclampsia Foundation. There's both tragedy and ...
Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actually involve dopamine
Dopamine (red) approaching one of its receptors (blue)JUAN GAERTNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/ALAMY The hormone and neurotransmitter dopamine is generally believed to ...
Newborns With Opioid Withdrawal at Higher Risk of Hospital Readmission
Infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) had a higher risk of hospital readmission than other newborns, a retrospective cohort ...
Remdesivir-Dexamethasone Tied to Fewer Deaths in Severe COVID
Treatment with the antiviral remdesivir (Veklury) plus dexamethasone was linked to fewer deaths among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 compared with ...
Tragus Stimulation for High BP; House Passes HEARTS Act; Risk in Pregnancy Surrogacy
Noninvasive, low‐level tragus stimulation modestly reduced blood pressure (BP) in relatively healthy people with grade 1 hypertension. (Journal of the ...
One-Year CGM Cleared; Osteoporosis Lawsuits Revived; Chemicals and Early Puberty
The FDA cleared Eversense 365 as the first 1-year integrated continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system for adults with type 1 ...
In Emergency Medicine, Promotion to Chief Resident Least Likely for Women of Color
Among emergency medicine residents, promotion to chief resident was less likely for those who identified as Black, and especially for ...
Brett Favre Diagnosed With Neurological Disorder
Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, he told a congressional committee Tuesday. Favre made the ...
Healthcare’s Post-Traumatic Growth | MedPage Today
Mary Meyer MD, MPH, is an emergency physician with The Permanente Medical Group. She also holds a Master of Public ...
Radiotherapy Increases Sarcoma Risk in TP53 Breast Cancer
TOPLINE: Patients with breast cancer carrying TP53 pathogenic variants face an 8.8% cumulative risk for developing sarcoma within 15 years of ...
