BBCElaine Fraser recognised the symptoms of anaphylactic shock thanks to training by the school where she works When teacher Elaine Fraser collapsed at home after drinking a ginger beer, she...

Sally Magnusson Sally Magnusson has already written a book about how her family coped with her mother's dementiaThere can’t be many people who spend years raging and grieving over the...

Getty ImagesIntensive-care units came under severe strain during Covid, the inquiry has heard (stock photo)At least one NHS trust put in place a blanket "do-not-resuscitate" order for sick patients in...

TOPLINE: More than half of the US peer reviewers for four major medical journals received industry payments between 2020 and 2022, new research shows. Altogether they received more than $64 million...

TOPLINE:Maternal serum folate levels during early to midpregnancy show a U-shaped association with congenital heart disease (CHD) risk in offspring. Both low and high folate levels are linked to an...

Among 111 prescription or over-the-counter products for acne that contain benzoyl peroxide (BPO), 38 (34%) contained benzene levels above the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) limit of 2 ppm,...

Papillary thyroid cancer is widely known as the "good cancer." This term has been around for years and is used ubiquitously. Some think it's "appropriate" because the cancer is highly...

Federal officials are working to move critical hospital supplies out of the path of Hurricane Milton, which is threatening another manufacturer of IV fluids even as hospitals nationwide are still...

A first stroke in older adults is associated with substantial immediate and accelerated long-term cognitive decline, suggested a new study that underscores the need for continuous cognitive monitoring in this...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Lasers and energy-based treatments alone or in combination with medical therapy may improve outcomes for patients with moderate to severe acne, according to Arielle Kauvar, MD.Arielle Kauvar,...

Enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications (EIASMs) increase the risk for new-onset cardiovascular events among older adults with epilepsy, a new study suggests.In a prospective cohort study of more than 27,000 patients, the...

TOPLINE:Cancer survivors who had overweight or obesity at the time of their initial cancer diagnosis have a higher risk for a second primary cancer, particularly an obesity-related cancer, a new...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. BrucePac is recalling approximately 9,986,245 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S....

TOPLINE:Lower preoperative levels of triglycerides and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol are linked to higher recurrence rates in patients with papillary thyroid cancer, suggesting that preoperative serum lipids may help predict...

SAN DIEGO — CAR T-cell therapies offer the tantalizing prospect of dramatically altering the outcome of lung cancers, but there are many hurdles to treating patients with them, according to...

PHILADELPHIA — Tavapadon, an experimental first-in-class oral selective partial D1/D5 dopamine receptor agonist for Parkinson's disease (PD), was shown to significantly reduce disease burden in two phase 3 TEMPO trials.In...

In the winter of 2023, Cynthia Smith, MD, an internal medicine physician in Philadelphia and the chief membership and engagement officer for the American College of Physicians, treated a high-achieving,...

Getting drugs to the brain is difficult. The very thing designed to protect the brain's environment — the blood-brain barrier (BBB), tightly packed cells that prevent most substances from passing...

BOSTON — Ultrasound-assisted catheter-directed thrombolysis (UACDT) is an important tool for treating acute pulmonary embolism (PE), but it can pose a risk for serious adverse outcomes in patients who also have...

TOPLINE:Fluconazole resistance in yeast isolates from women with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis in Leeds, England, increased from 3.5% to 9.6% over 3 years. Non-Candida albicans yeasts also rose from 6.0% to...