» Ozempic’s Big Test
10/18/24 from Health | The Atlantic
When will it bend the curve on obesity?

» Tobacco giants would pay out $32.5B to provinces, smokers in 'historic' proposed deal
10/18/24 from CBC | Health News
Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle.

» The Fight Over Abortion Pills Is Just Beginning
10/18/24 from Health | The Atlantic
Every month, thousands of women in states where abortion is banned are able to get the pills by mail. The right wants to put a stop to that.

» NFL coaching stress can damage health, say coaches
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
While the Chargers were warming up in Denver last Sunday, Jim Harbaugh felt his heart racing. He knew that feeling, having experienced it as a player in 1999 and as an NFL head coach 13 years later.

» EHR order set reduces antibiotic duration in children with acute otitis media
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) order set increases compliance with the recommended duration of prescribed antibiotics for children with acute otitis media (AOM), according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDWeek), held from Oct. 16 to 19 in Los Angeles.

» Study shows that Rett syndrome in females is not just less severe, but different
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
A new UC Davis MIND Institute study offers critical insights into Rett syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects mostly girls. The research reveals how this condition affects males and females differently, with symptoms progression linked to changes in gene responses in brain cells.

» 3D tattooing after breast reconstruction: Q&A
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in U.S. women with about one in eight women diagnosed over the course of their lifetime. In about 35% of cases, a mastectomy is part of a woman's treatment plan and involves removing all tissue in one or both breasts, sometimes including the nipples and areolas. While it is considered a lifesaving proce...

» Research shows chain clinics improve IVF outcomes
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
In the U.S., demand for in vitro fertilization (IVF) increased almost 140% between 2004 and 2018. Among other things, this trend suggests a business opportunity; in that same span of time, the market share of for-profit chain clinics grew from 5% to 20%, with chains now performing over 40% of IVF treatment cycles nationwide.

» In utero exposure to COVID-19 not tied to later neurodevelopmental issues
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Exposure to maternal COVID-19 is not associated with abnormal neurodevelopmental screening results through 24 months postpartum, according to a study published online Oct. 16 in JAMA Network Open.

» Genetic mapping study uncovers four main categories of cancer drug resistance mutations
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
All cancer mutations that cause drug resistance fall into one of four categories. New research has detailed each type, helping to uncover targets for drug development and identify potential effective second-line therapies.

» Teen smoking and other tobacco use drop to lowest level in 25 years, CDC reports
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U.S. this year, part of a big drop in the youth use of tobacco overall, the government reported Thursday.

» Whooping cough is at a decade-high level in US
10/18/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.

» It's Never Too Late to Begin Resistance Training
10/18/24 from Articles
Sarcopenia, also known as age-related muscle loss, is a leading health concern among the elderly. According to research compiled by the Alliance for Aging Research, the prevalence of sarcopenia is prevalent in adults ages 60 and older: 1 11% in men and 9% in women who live in communities 23% in men and 24% in women who are hospitalized 51% in me...

» If Common Chemicals Harm Frogs and Rats, What Are They Doing to Your Children?
10/18/24 from Articles
Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published November 12, 2016. The TED Talk above features Penelope Jagessar Chaffer, director of the documentary film “Toxic Baby,” 1 and Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, who has dedicated most of his career to studying the health e...

» The Dangers of Statins
10/18/24 from Articles
The more I study science, and particularly medicine, the more I come to see how often fundamental facts end up being changed so that a profitable industry can be created. Recently I showed how this happened with blood pressure , as rather than causing arterial damage, high blood pressure is a response to arterial damage that ensures damaged arte...

» 15-year-old Kansas football player's death is blamed on heat
10/17/24 from ABC News: Health
Outdoor conditioning while a heat advisory was in effect during the humid summer left 15-year-old football player Ovet Gomez Regalado pale and asking for water

» Study finds RSV vaccine highly effective in protecting older adults against severe disease, hospitalization and death
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
A multi-state study, published in The Lancet, is one of the first real world data analyses of the effectiveness of the RSV—short for respiratory syncytial virus—vaccine. VISION Network researchers report that across the board these vaccines were highly effective in older adults, even those with immunocompromising conditions, during the 2023–24 r...

» New Study Finds Social Support Linked With Improved Cancer Screening in the U.S.; Strongest for Breast Cancer Screening
10/17/24 from Press Releases
American Cancer Society researchers stress the role of social support in screening utilization

» Merck says experimental RSV treatment protected infants in trial, paving way for potential approval
10/17/24 from Health Care
Merck is discussing the study data with regulators worldwide, with a goal of making the treatment available for infants as early as the 2025 to 2026 RSV season.

» New study reveals two-thirds of diabetic men suffer from erectile dysfunction
10/17/24 from The Medical News
Erectile dysfunction (ED) affects up to 66% of diabetic men globally, with risk factors like age, long-term diabetes, and obesity playing a significant role. The study emphasizes the urgent need for early diagnosis and effective diabetes management to reduce the burden of ED

» Hormonal IUDs Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk
10/17/24 from MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
(MedPage Today) -- Women younger than 50 who used a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (IUD) had a significantly higher risk of breast cancer as compared with women who did not use hormonal contraceptives, a Danish registry study showed...

» Increased autism risk linked to Y chromosome, study finds
10/17/24 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Increased risk for autism appears to be linked to the Y chromosome, a study has found, offering a new explanation for the greater prevalence of autism in males.

» Why do we love carbs? The origins predate agriculture and maybe even our split from Neanderthals
10/17/24 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
A new study reveals how the duplication of the salivary amylase gene may not only have helped shape human adaptation to starchy foods, but may have occurred as far back as more than 800,000 years ago, long before the advent of farming.

» CDC reports teen smoking and other tobacco use dropped to lowest level in 25 years
10/17/24 from ABC News: Health
CDC reports teen smoking and other tobacco use dropped to lowest level in 25 years

» Medicaid ACOs have not yet improved care for kids with asthma, study says
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
In its first three years of operation, Medicaid's primary care-focused Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in Massachusetts showed "no clear evidence of success" in improving asthma care for children, according to research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate Health.

» How neural networks help the brain predict future events
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
On 17 October 2024, Martina Lamberti publicly defended her Ph.D. thesis, "Know the Past to See the Future: Memory and Prediction in In-Vitro Cortical Neurons," at the University of Twente. Her research sheds light on how the brain predicts future events and forms memories. These findings could open new doors in understanding neurological conditi...

» Vitamin B12 identified as a potential therapeutic agent in the prevention and treatment of acute pancreatitis
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Acute pancreatitis (AP), which affects people of all ages, is one of the leading causes of hospital admission due to gastrointestinal diseases. Approximately 20% of patients develop moderate or severe acute pancreatitis, which carries extremely high mortality and disability rates. Even for those who recover, lifelong complications often follow, ...

» New Estimates Show Over 4 Million People in the U.S. Have Glaucoma
10/17/24 from MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
(MedPage Today) -- An estimated 4.22 million people in the U.S. had glaucoma and 1.49 million people had vision-affecting glaucoma in 2022, with Black adults approximately twice as likely as white adults to be affected, according to a meta-analysis...

» Pumpkin Safety Tips; Sleep MD Snoozing Tricks; What It's Like to Date a Resident
10/17/24 from MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. It's pumpkin patch season, which means ... potential back injuries? @ladyspinedoc showed her audience how to lift...

» How Unconventional Thinkers Unlock Medical Innovation
10/17/24 from MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
(MedPage Today) -- Despite the uphill battle that most inventors must undertake to bring their innovations to market, the global market for medical device technologies was valued at $550 billion in 2021. By 2030, it is projected to reach $850 billion...

» Woman accidentally swallows wedding ring while taking vitamins, X-ray shows
10/17/24 from Health News Today on Fox News
A woman was taking her daily vitamins on vacation in Thailand when she accidentally swallowed her diamond wedding ring. See the X-ray that confirmed what happened.

» Researchers from Brazil and Italy search industrial waste for new Alzheimer's drugs
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
A self-proclaimed Brazil-Italy collaboration enthusiast, researcher Laura Bolognesi created the B2AlzD2 Joint Lab at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the Università di Bologna (UNIBO), the first Brazil-Bologna joint laboratory dedicated to the development of new drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The partners include ...

» Tropical disease researchers develop new tool for improved diagnosis of schistosomiasis
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Neglected tropical diseases refer to a group of ailments that affect millions of people globally, often in poverty-stricken areas of the world, and yet don't receive the scientific attention they deserve. Schistosomiasis is one such disease—a persistent parasitic infection that affects an estimated 250 million people in 78 countries, particularl...

» Sperm Can’t Unlock an Egg Without This Ancient Molecular Key
10/17/24 from Health
Using Google’s AlphaFold, researchers identified the bundle of three sperm proteins that seem to make sexual reproduction possible.

» Vaping rates hit record lows for U.S. high school students
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Is vaping finally losing its coolness for American teens? The latest tally of federal data finds that 550,000 school kids, mostly high schoolers, quit using e-cigarettes in 2024.

» Teen tobacco use falls to 25-year low as fewer pick up e-cigarettes
10/17/24 from Health Care
Tobacco product use among middle and high school students has dropped to a 25-year low, federal agencies announced Thursday.

» Many more lives could have been saved with convalescent COVID-19 plasma
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Thousands more U.S. lives could have been saved with the use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP), according to a study published online Oct. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

» Retinal neuroaxonal loss detectable with epilepsy
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
In people with epilepsy, progression of retinal neuroaxonal loss is detectable at short-term follow-up, according to a study published online Oct. 9 in Epilepsia.

» Stroke Survivors Still Prescribed a 'Concerning' Amount of Benzos
10/17/24 from MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
(MedPage Today) -- More vigilance may be needed regarding the amount of benzodiazepines being dispensed to older stroke survivors, though prescription patterns at the national level have improved in recent years. Medicare records showed that within...

» Air Pollution Risky After Lung Transplant
10/17/24 from MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
(MedPage Today) -- For lung transplant recipients, exposure to higher air pollution levels was linked to an increased risk of death or graft failure, a retrospective cohort study found. Living in a zip code exposed to elevated ambient fine particulate...

» Tenecteplase has similar safety to tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
For patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS), tenecteplase (TNK) has improved functional outcome and reduced disability and similar safety to alteplase (tissue plasminogen activator [TPA]), according to a study published online Oct. 16 in Neurology.

» Committee reviewing euthanasia in Canada finds some deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolation
10/17/24 from ABC News: Health
An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness

» Listeria recall expands to include nearly 12 million pounds of meat, poultry
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
A national recall of meat and poultry has been expanded to include close to 12 million pounds of products that may have been contaminated with listeria, U.S. health officials announced.

» Half of patients admitted to an emergency department for sepsis died within two years
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
In a recent study, half of all patients with sepsis admitted to an emergency department died within two years, but the predictive ability of a model was poor, according to a study presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress, held Oct. 12 to 16 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

» Study Offers Clues for Avoiding RMD Flares After COVID Vaccination
10/17/24 from MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
(MedPage Today) -- Predicting which people with inflammatory rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMDs) may experience flares after COVID-19 vaccination just got a bit easier, thanks to a new analysis of more than 7,000 European RMD patients...

» Nicotine pouches rise in popularity as US youth tobacco use hits 25-year-low
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Nicotine pouches have overtaken cigarettes in youth popularity, as tobacco product use among US middle and high schoolers dropped to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, according to official data released Thursday.

» Continuous Parkinson's Disease Therapy Wins FDA Nod
10/17/24 from MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a subcutaneous 24-hour continuous infusion of foscarbidopa and foslevodopa (Vyalev) for advanced Parkinson's disease, AbbVie announced Thursday. Foscarbidopa and foslevodopa are pro-drugs for carbidopa and levodopa...

» Vape sales to minors are on the rise in Ottawa. Licensing could help
10/17/24 from CBC | Health News
Vape retailers in Ottawa may need to be licensed by the end of next month, with the city set to use those fees to finance a crackdown on stores that sell vaping products to people under the age of 19.

» Stereotactic body radiotherapy viable alternative for localized prostate cancer
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is noninferior to conventional or moderately fractionated radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer (PC), according to a study published online Oct. 16 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

» Health effects of chemical mixtures: Neurotoxic effects add up, new study shows
10/17/24 from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories
Chemicals are omnipresent today. They enter our bodies through food, air or the skin. But how do these complex mixtures of chemicals affect our health? In a new study, a research team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has shown that chemicals that occur in complex mixtures and in concentration ratios as found in humans a...