Ozempic can help people to quickly lose weight but may also have serious side effectsUte Grabowsky/imageBROKER/Shutterstock Ozempic and Wegovy are brand names for the drug semaglutide. Many countries have approved...

Claire Fagin, PhD, RN, a nurse scientist, advocate, innovator, and one of the first women to lead an Ivy League university, died on January 16 at her home in New...

Cognitive decline was rarely mentioned by ancient Greek and Roman authors, leading researchers to question whether dementia is a modern disease. (Journal of Alzheimer's Disease) Immune response may be responsible...

The Doctors’ Association UK has sent a new book written by its past co-chair, Dr Ellen Welch, to every Member of Parliament and to the chairs of NHS integrated care...

Compared with patients with migraine and other transient neurological events, those with an ischemic stroke have almost double the risk for myocardial infarction (MI) within a year, while those with...

Patients with clinically localized primary cutaneous melanoma who smoked cigarettes at the time of diagnosis had an increased risk of melanoma-associated mortality, a cohort study showed. In a post hoc...

An initial triptan prescription was linked with ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction for people with a high-risk cardiovascular profile, a case-crossover study in Denmark found. Among more than 400,000 people...

Recent reports of outbreaks of the multidrug-resistant yeast Candida auris (C. auris) are worrying health officials and experts across the U.S. As of January 26, four patients in Washington with...

If someone has been in cardiac arrest for 10 minutes, the brain is permanently damaged and there's nothing to do, right?Not so according to emerging evidence that suggests that the...

All three higher doses of tirzepatide (Mounjaro) -- 10, 12.5, and 15 mg -- will be in short supply through early March due to increased demand. Lower doses should still...

Being diagnosed with cancer during treatment for another condition is something many experience. Source link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68171163 Author : Publish date : 2024-02-06 13:42:55 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to...

Meyers is a pediatric pharmacist. They're hard to miss -- the overwhelming number of gummy vitamins available for both adults and children. The past decade has seen an explosion in...

In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in college admissions, leading many to raise concerns about the consequences not only for underrepresented medical school applicants, but also for...

Even with controlled blood pressure (BP), visit-to-visit systolic BP variability predicts cardiovascular events and may be traced partly to choice of medication. (European Heart Journal) Bariatric surgery proved more effective...

Lee is a psychiatry resident. When a patient discloses an experience of harassment, abuse, or assault, our first response as physicians, we are taught, should be compassion. Yet, we often...

Representatives from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) touted the benefits of recent changes to its maintenance of certification (MOC) program in a viewpoint in JAMA, though criticism of...

Newborns whose mothers received at least one mRNA COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy had no worse outcomes than those whose mothers didn't get the vaccine during pregnancy, a large cohort study...

TOPLINE: For patients with nonspine bone metastases, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a safe and effective treatment, with low rates of local failures and fractures as well as minimal serious...

TOPLINE:A machine learning (ML) model using standard laboratory values and clinical data can help predict hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risk in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) with high...

For adults with obesity and uncontrolled hypertension, bariatric surgery is an effective and durable strategy to control high blood pressure (BP), final, 5-year follow-up data from the GATEWAY trial suggested.In...