Ozempic Hiatus Before Surgery: Is a Weeklong Pause Really Needed?
Continued use of a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist leading up to surgery may not increase the risk for ...
Neurotechnology Development Must Be Slow and Steady
Murray is a neuroscientist and post-doctoral fellow. Through my work as a neuroscientist who designs neural implants to monitor the ...
MedPod Deep Dive: More Problems With For-Profit Nursing Schools
The following is a transcript of the podcast episode: Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody. Welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series ...
Make the Diagnosis: Why Does This Young Woman Have Discoloration on Her Back?
Presentation A 24-year-old woman visited her doctor about discoloration that developed on her back over the past 3 months. The ...
Getting in Touch, Figuring It All Out
Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 ...
Underweight, but Not Obesity, Linked to Glaucoma Progression
A higher body mass index (BMI) was significantly associated with slower rates of retinal nerve fiber layer change among patients ...
Toxic: How the Search for COVID’s Origins Turned Politically Poisonous
The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series ...
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Surge: Europe Sounds the Alarm
The latest data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reveal a concerning uptick in vaccine-preventable diseases ...
Doc Killed in Murder-Suicide? New Human Bird-Flu Case; Olympics’ Eating Disorders
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Marsha Certain, MD, an interventional cardiologist from Georgia, was killed late ...
More Cases of Acute Diverticulitis Treated Outside Hospital
BOSTON — Patients with acute colonic diverticulitis are more likely to be seen by primary care providers than by emergency ...
Immunotherapy for Renal-Cell Carcinoma Saves Lives
TOPLINE:A new, international, 5-year trial of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda) contained the largest patient contingent from the United Kingdom ...
Which Probiotics Are Effective in Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
PARIS — Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common brain-gut axis disorder, and patients are often dissatisfied with conventional treatments.The ...
Experts Provide Recommendations on Oral Minoxidil
SAN DIEGO — Compared with the use of topical minoxidil for hair loss, the used of low-dose oral minoxidil (LDOM) ...
Heart Failure, Not Stroke, Most Common Complication of A-Fib
The lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) increased from 2000 to 2022 from one in four to one in three, ...
Drug dealers offer BBC team deadly opioids
Powerful synthetic drugs linked to dozens of deaths are being sent to the UK from China, BBC finds. Source link ...
Has Immunotherapy Found Its Place in Pancreatic Cancer?
There have been many attempts to use immunotherapy to improve outcomes in pancreatic cancer, but they haven't worked out.The trials, ...
Diet, Nutritional Therapies in IBD: Update Offers Advice
The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has released a clinical practice update on the role of diet and nutritional therapies in ...
Rapid-Onset Option, Other Emerging Trends
SAN DIEGO — In the next few years, expect intradermal injections of botulinum toxin A for the improvement in the ...
Alectinib Approved for ALK-Positive Adjuvant NSCLC
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved alectinib (Alecensa, Genentech) in the adjuvant setting following tumor resection in ...
Psychological Approaches Calm Functional Digestive Disorders
PARIS — Hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) have proven effective in reducing symptoms associated with functional digestive disorders. ...
