Month: November 2024

Simmons is Chief Medical Officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. Lorna Breen, MD, Matt Gall, MD, Mo Brown, ...

Expanded Treatment Options for Primary Biliary Cholangitis Leave Open Questions

The approval of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) in 1997 marked a pivotal turning point in management ...

How Ultra-processed Foods Drive Obesity, Metabolic Risks

Share on Pinterest David Petrus Ibars/Getty ImagesA new study finds that higher intake of ultra-processed foods is associated with greater ...

Terminally ill people react after MPs vote

BBCNik Ward is disappointed the bill has passed and worries about its implications for vulnerable peopleTerminally ill people are a ...

Tears, hope and fear as assisted dying bill passed

EPAOn Friday, after weeks of fierce and passionate debate, MPs began their formal scrutiny of the bill that would allow ...

Fix palliative care before allowing assisted dying

Getty ImagesFixing the struggling palliative care system must be an immediate priority for the government, now that MPs have backed ...

Bird Flu Virus Was Found in Raw Milk. What to Know About the Risks.

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for the nation's top health job, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has vowed to allow wider distribution ...

Lidocaine Fails to Speed Up Gut Function Recovery After Colonic Surgery

Perioperative lidocaine failed to speed up the recovery of gut function following minimally invasive colonic resections, a randomized U.K. trial ...

Most comprehensive picture yet of how organs age at different rates

Someone’s kidneys could be a decade older, biologically, than their brainChristian Kitzmuller/Alamy Our organs appear to age at different rates, ...

Measuring the Quality of Pain Management

Qaseem is senior vice president of clinical policy and chief science officer at the American College of Physicians. MacDonald is ...

Big Drop in Cervical Cancer Deaths; Publication Hijackers; A Win for CRC Home Tests

Cervical cancer mortality in American women younger than 25 declined by 62% from 2016 to 2021, coinciding with uptake of ...

What happens next to bill on assisted dying?

MPs' vote to back the legalisation of assisted dying in England and Wales is historic. It means such a law ...

Time to Act on What We See in the Mirror

David Nash is the Founding Dean Emeritus and Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at ...

MPs back proposals to legalise assisted dying

MPs have backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales in a historic vote which paves the way ...

Childhood Atopic Dermatitis Doesn’t Delay Puberty

TOPLINE:Children with atopic dermatitis (AD), even of greater severity, do not experience a delay in attaining pubertal milestones.METHODOLOGY:Investigators conducted a ...

AI Teaches Surgery; AI Quality Registry; AI Matches Patients With Trials

Welcome to MedAI Roundup, highlighting the latest news and research in healthcare-related artificial intelligence each month. Can AI help make ...

Mirikizumab Effective in Crohn’s Disease After Initial Standard Therapy Failure