Steroid Tapering Called Safe in Older RA Patients Trial follow-up demonstrates feasibility, though not without some risk Aug 07, 2023
As Men Live Longer, Osteoporosis Looms Larger Time to close the awareness and screening gender gap Aug 07, 2023
Improving Treatment Adherence in Atopic Dermatitis How to empower patients to help them optimize their clinical response to therapy Aug 07, 2023
For Your Patients: Is 'Steroid Phobia’ Sabotaging Your Atopic Dermatitis Treatment Plan? Online misinformation about steroids can stoke fears despite decades of safe, effective use Aug 07, 2023
'Not Going to Change a Hardened Racist': What We Heard This Week Quotable quotes heard by Ƶ's reporters Aug 06, 2023
'Conscience' Bills Let Medical Providers Opt Out of Providing a Wide Range of Care Protections for health workers may reduce standard of care, opponents say Aug 06, 2023
It Shouldn't Take Another Pandemic to Invest in Digital Health We should expand, not restrict, the use of digital solutions Aug 06, 2023
In a Golden Age of Cancer Care, PBMs Are Holding Us Back We must stop predatory and destructive behaviors Aug 05, 2023
Medical School Applicants Do Not Need to 'Check' a Box to Succeed Five reasons why the Supreme Court's ruling will not set back diversification in medicine Aug 05, 2023
FDA OKs First Pill for Postpartum Depression In one trial, more than twice as many women achieved remission after 2-week treatment course Aug 04, 2023
Neurodevelopment After Prenatal Exposure to Newer Epilepsy Drugs Tracked for 3 Years Commonly prescribed anti-seizure medications did not show worse outcomes Aug 04, 2023
Noninvasive Nerve Stimulator May Ease Sleep Apnea Intervention recipients saw apnea, oxygen desaturation, sleepiness scores improve Aug 04, 2023
ICU Sink the Culprit in Hospital Superbug Cluster CDC report details two cases of antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa at Idaho hospital Aug 04, 2023
Sugar-Heavy Diet Linked to Development of Kidney Stones Those who consumed 25% or more of their daily calories from added sugars had the highest odds Aug 04, 2023
Petition to End Maintenance of Certification Rallies More Than 10K Signers Physicians push back on "burdensome, costly" program Aug 04, 2023
Adcetris Plus Chemo Effective in HIV-Related Hodgkin Lymphoma Researchers call study "practice changing," although outside experts urge caution Aug 04, 2023
When It Comes to Eye Care, AI Couldn't See Straight ChatGPT gave bogus and even potentially harmful answers to retinal disease questions, study shows Aug 04, 2023
Can Aromatherapy Relax Post-Op Patients? Cardiac surgery patients report better sleep after inhaling peppermint essence Aug 03, 2023
CDC Advisors Back Therapeutic to Prevent RSV in Infants Unanimous support for monoclonal antibody for infants and high-risk toddlers as well Aug 03, 2023
Surveillance Still Not an Option for Many With Subsegmental Pulmonary Embolism Few patients actually eligible for alternative to anticoagulation Aug 03, 2023
Nose-Picking Health Workers Had Higher COVID Risk "Deserves more consideration as a potential health hazard," researchers say Aug 03, 2023
Measles Outbreak Racked Up Dozens of Cases in Central Ohio Outbreak in late 2022 affected almost exclusively unvaccinated children Aug 03, 2023
Doctors Sue California Over Implicit Bias Training "Taking some dippy course is not going to change a hardened racist," one plaintiff says Aug 03, 2023
Acid-Burned Uterus Suit; Patient Loses $438K Damages Award; $11M Kratom Death Suit A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Aug 03, 2023
Rheumatology Journals Rife With Faulty Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures Most authors receiving industry payments relevant to their research failed to report them Aug 03, 2023
COVID Cleared of Increasing Risk of Type 1 Diabetes in Kids? Prospective data contradict associations seen in prior studies during the pandemic Aug 02, 2023
Study Questions Relationship Between Hospital Competition and Surgical Quality Outcomes were mixed, depending on the operation Aug 02, 2023
Mixed Results With Senolytic Agent for Retinal Disease Positive outcome with UBX-1325 in diabetic macular edema but not wet AMD Aug 02, 2023
Novel Drug Reduces Acute Pain After Common Surgeries Investigational sodium channel blocker shows benefit in two trials Aug 02, 2023
Routinely Removed Organ Linked to Increased Mortality, Cancer Risk Cardiothoracic surgery often cuts out this little organ as irrelevant. Big mistake, study says Aug 02, 2023
Should Surgery Be Offered for Malignant Bowel Obstruction? Study finds no benefit in terms of days alive and out of the hospital, but symptom burden eased Aug 02, 2023
Jeanne Marrazzo Chosen to Succeed Fauci as NIAID Director Selection praised by infectious disease groups Aug 02, 2023
Handheld Pen Helps Surgeons Distinguish Between Thyroid, Parathyroid Tissues Dye-less device works in about 15 seconds Aug 02, 2023
Early Enthusiasm for Cancer Drug Reformulated for Ophthalmic Use AMD treatment burden reduced by 80-90% by implant, intrachoroidal axitinib Aug 02, 2023
Universal Flu Vaccine Candidate Shows Promise in Mid-Stage Trial Efficacy in range of NIH target, exploratory analysis finds Aug 02, 2023
RFK Jr. Involved in Med Board 'Spectacle'; Doc's Fertility Supplement; Illegal Lab This past week in healthcare investigations Aug 02, 2023
FDA, DEA Heads Acknowledge ADHD Drug Shortage in Public Letter Agencies ask manufacturers to boost production, but call on docs to prescribe appropriately Aug 02, 2023
Bed Bugs Spreading MRSA? Henrietta Lacks Settlement; Tickets for Fentanyl Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Ƶ staff Aug 02, 2023
Breast Cancer: The Basics of Diagnosis, Staging, and Treatment Also, an overview of epidemiologic and geographic trends Aug 02, 2023