Day: November 20, 2024

WASHINGTON -- Health transparency rules have helped researchers gain more insight into hospital pricing practices, Ge Bai, PhD, CPA, said ...

Couples who were found to be genetic carriers for autosomal recessive or X-linked genetic conditions often opted to change their ...

A left atrial appendage (LAA) closure device provides long-term thromboembolic protection that is equivalent to direct oral anticoagulants after ablation ...

Sodium oxybate provided temporary relief for laryngeal dystonia patients who were alcohol-responsive.The neurologic disorder causes laryngeal muscle spasms, leading to ...

Semaglutide (Wegovy) improved liver fibrosis in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and led to greater rates of MASH resolution, ...

In less than a month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued three doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors ...

An international expert consensus statement provided best-practice recommendations for the off-label use of low-dose oral minoxidil among patients with hair ...

WASHINGTON -- A small implant delivering electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve outperformed a sham treatment in relieving rheumatoid arthritis ...

A Dallas anesthesiologist was sentenced Wednesday to 190 years in prison for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into ...

Two US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panels are urging the agency to eliminate the risk management program for ...

The Department of Justice launched an investigation into whether adults with serious mental illness were unnecessarily institutionalized in Michigan state-run ...

Tapering doses of corticosteroids was safer than, and just as effective as, a fixed dose in patients with severe alcohol-associated ...

Glatter is an assistant professor of emergency medicine. Papadakos is a director of critical care medicine and a professor of ...

EPWORTH, Zimbabwe -- Carrying her infant daughter, 19-year-old Sithulisiwe Moyo waited 2 hours to get birth control pills from a ...

Suicide and self-harm continue to be serious concerns in Europe, despite decreasing rates over the past two decades. In 2021 ...

Diagnoses of postpartum depression (PPD) increased significantly across all racial and ethnic groups and prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) categories ...

Checking on patients at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, ArizonaJesse Rieser/New York The Future Loves YouAriel Zeleznikow-Johnston (Penguin, 28 November) ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved bimekizumab, a humanized interleukin (IL)-17A and IL-17F antagonist, for the treatment of ...

In 3-year data from the CAPELLA study, the subcutaneous, long-acting capsid inhibitor lenacapavir (Sunlenca) demonstrated sustained suppression with no emergence ...

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, of Stanford University in California, has emerged as President-elect Donald Trump's top pick to lead the ...