Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/vitiligo-linked-to-psychiatric-conditions-in-black-children/ TOPLINE: Black children with vitiligo are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, including depression, suicidal ideation, and disruptive behavior disorders, than matched controls who did not have vitiligo,…
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Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/prehospital-cardiac-pacing-increases-mortality-risk/ TOPLINE: A recent study has found prehospital transcutaneous cardiac pacing (TCP) in patients with bradycardia to be associated with a high mortality rate of 63.4%, and TCP failure associated with increased…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/first-time-fathers-have-period-of-high-psychological-risk/ A growing amount of data is demonstrating that new fathers are likely to develop depression in the perinatal period. Anxiety and stress during fatherhood receive less research attention than do anxiety…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/fda-rejects-mdma-at-for-ptsd-but-lykos-vows-to-push-on/ The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision not to approve midomafetamine-assisted therapy (MDMA-AT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) puts the therapy’s near-term future in doubt, but officials say the rejection…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/winter-virus-jab-rolled-out-for-babies-and-elderly/ Getty Images A vaccination programme to protect newborn babies and older people against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is being rolled out in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday, following a…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/nonsteroidal-mra-improves-outcomes-in-hfpef-hfmref/ LONDON — The nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) finerenone (Kerendia) improved outcomes driven by soft endpoints in patients with heart failure and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF, HFpEF), the…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/doac-monotherapy-bests-dual-antithrombotic-therapy-for-afib-plus-coronary-disease/ LONDON — For patients with atrial fibrillation (Afib) and stable coronary artery disease (CAD), edoxaban (Savaysa) monotherapy improved net outcomes weighing together bleeding and ischemic events as compared with dual antithrombotic…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/theres-nothing-in-law-there-is-only-tradition-what-we-heard-this-week/ “There’s nothing in law. There is only tradition, and there’s only what the voters want.” — John Sotos, MD, retired cardiologist and Air Force flight surgeon, on whether presidential nominees are…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/pause-anticoagulants-during-tavi-to-reduce-bleeding-risk/ LONDON — Continuing oral anticoagulant drugs rather than briefly stopping them during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) failed to provide any benefits and, in fact, increased the risk for bleeding, report…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/new-afib-guidelines-confront-underlying-illness/ LONDON — Updated guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation released by the European Society of Cardiology are revamping the approach to care for this complex, multifactorial disease. The identification and…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/stenting-tavr-make-sense-packaged-together-for-some-patients/ LONDON — Some individuals already undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR, also TAVI) might as well get coronary lesions revascularized around the same time, according to the NOTION-3 randomized trial. Clinical…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-lower-treatment-target/ LONDON — Simplified and more aggressive targets are among the significant changes to the updated hypertension guidelines released by the European Society of Cardiology. For most treated patients, the new systolic…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/new-nhs-hair-loss-drug-could-make-life-so-much-easier/ FAMILY HANDOUT Dr Alicia Pylpyczuk worked as an emergency doctor in Manchester but took her own life in February 2020 after battling depression triggered by alopecia Earlier this year a new…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/another-trial-sides-with-mitraclip-for-functional-mitral-regurgitation/ LONDON — Despite another positive trial, controversy rages on over transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER or M-TEER) in people with symptomatic heart failure (HF) and functional mitral regurgitation (MR). All three primary…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/what-illness-is-fauci-recovering-from/ The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/predicting-covid-outbreaks-via-wastewater-new-medicine-for-menopause/ TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/triclips-soft-benefits-affirmed-in-severe-tricuspid-regurgitation/ LONDON — Tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) improved how well patients functioned and felt without major cardiovascular events in the first academic randomized trial to affirm the pivotal trial findings. T-TEER…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/potassium-strategy-after-cardiac-bypass-grafting-doesnt-impact-afib-risk/ LONDON — Keeping potassium levels high after cardiac surgery in hopes of preventing post-surgical atrial fibrillation (Afib) didn’t work, a randomized clinical trial showed. New-onset Afib after isolated coronary artery bypass…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/are-you-ready-for-wildfire-season/ Mary Meyer MD, MPH, is an emergency physician with The Permanente Medical Group. She also holds a Master of Public Health and certificates in Global Health and Climate Medicine. Meyer previously…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/setbacks-after-stopping-beta-blockers/ LONDON — It may not be advisable for patients with a history of myocardial infarction and preserved left ventricular function to discontinue long-term beta-blocker therapy, warn investigators. In the randomized ABYSS…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/pause-or-keep-ras-inhibitors-before-surgery-take-your-pick/ LONDON — No blanket statement could be made regarding whether patients undergoing noncardiac surgery should continue or withdraw their renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitor therapy based on the Stop-or-Not Trial. Death and…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/weekend-warriors-have-lower-risk-of-dementia-stroke-study-finds/ Share on PinterestWeekend warriors gain similar brain health benefits as those who exercise more regularly, according to a new study. SolStock/Getty Images Weekend warriors — individuals who get most of their…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/womens-30-year-heart-risk-can-be-predicted-by-just-three-factors/ LONDON — A combination of three factors — high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), LDL cholesterol, and lipoprotein(a), or lp(a) — independently predicted cardiovascular disease over 30 years in women who were initially…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/jabs-could-slow-ageing-researchers-say/ A drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity could also slow down the process of ageing, researchers believe. Semaglutide, better known as Ozempic, “has far-reaching benefits beyond what we…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/use-suncream-you-trust-says-mum-after-boy-10-requires-surgery/ BBC Hector is now recovering at home in Nottinghamshire with his mother Natalie and the rest of his family A family’s dream holiday turned into a nightmare when severe sunburn left…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/how-to-protect-yourself-from-4-mosquito-borne-illnesses-on-the-rise/ Share on PinterestMosquito-borne illnesses are on the rise in the U.S. Chalffy/Getty Images Mosquitoes can carry viruses or parasites that cause a number of diseases in people. When a mosquito carrying…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/quitting-smoking-lowers-risk-by-nearly-50/ Share on PinterestA new study reports that people with coronary artery disease can lower their heart attack risk by 44% by quitting smoking. andreswd/Getty Images Researchers report that people with coronary…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/quitting-smoking-linked-to-reduced-risk-of-hidradenitis-suppurativa/ Smoking cessation was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of developing hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) compared with continuous smoking, according to a Korean population-based cohort study. Compared with patients who…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/does-mpox-cause-lingering-symptoms-like-long-covid/ Mpox commonly causes lesions that can blister and scar CDC/Associated Press/Alamy Mpox cases are surging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and several of its neighbouring countries. The DRC alone…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/if-alzheimers-drug-ads-had-more-data-heres-what-might-happen/ Prominently featuring severe adverse effects of a fictitious Alzheimer’s disease drug in print advertising was associated with consumers perceiving the drug as riskier, survey data showed. The study included 1,007 American…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/real-housewives-star-nearly-died-from-sepsis-after-misdiagnosis/ Share on Pinterest“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Vicki Gunvalson is sharing details about a recent health scare she experienced following a misdiagnosis that nearly turned fatal. Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Real…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/finding-that-apoe4-is-toxic-in-alzheimers-can-help-guide-targeted-therapies/ A working group of senior investigators, convened by the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP), has reached a consensus that the APOE4 gene, long debated in Alzheimer’s research, is definitively toxic. This…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/amyloidosis-drug-improves-outcomes-survival/ LONDON — Vutrisiran (Amvuttra) improved functional and disease outcomes as well as survival in transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), according to findings from the HELIOS-B phase III trial. And the benefits in…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/trump-calls-for-universal-coverage-of-ivf-without-specifics-on-how-plan-would-work/ Former President Donald Trump says that, if he wins a second term, he wants to make in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment free for women, but did not detail how he would…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/amid-global-emergency-fda-oks-another-vaccine-for-mpox/ On the heels of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global emergency declaration, the FDA expanded the approval of the smallpox vaccine (ACAM2000) for use in people at high risk for mpox,…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/stopping-beta-blockers-did-not-go-as-planned-for-long-time-users/ LONDON — Heart attack survivors who were expected to be fine after going off their beta-blockers fared worse clinically compared with those who continued them, a randomized trial showed. After years…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/oncologist-sued-for-double-billing-pharmacy-deserts-she-loved-scotch-and-pizza/ The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a civil lawsuit against a Montana oncologist, alleging that Thomas Weiner, MD, double-billed federal healthcare programs and overprescribed pain medication. (AP) Almost half of U.S. counties…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/scleroderma-patients-see-worsened-raynauds-in-summer-too/ Episodes of Raynaud’s phenomenon, a common feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc, also known as scleroderma), were more severe not only at low temperatures, as one would expect, but also during summertime…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/how-docs-can-volunteer-for-the-2028-olympics-in-los-angeles/ Jeremy Faust is editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and a public health researcher. He is author of the Substack column Inside…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/what-is-polio-and-how-will-children-be-immunised/ AFP A series of “humanitarian pauses” to fighting in Gaza are due to begin on Sunday, to allow hundreds of thousands of children to be vaccinated against polio. The agreement comes…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/drops-that-change-eye-color-experts-sound-the-alarm/ Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today‘s collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional’s take on the latest viral medical topics. Earlier this week, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/drugs-complications-and-collaborations-all-on-easd-agenda/ MADRID — Once-weekly insulin, new incretin drugs, diabetes complications, and joint society collaborations will be among the featured topics at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 2024 Annual…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/everolimus-offers-no-survival-benefit-in-non-clear-cell-rcc/ TOPLINE: Adjuvant everolimus does not improve recurrence-free or overall survival in patients with papillary and chromophobe subtypes of non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma ( RCC) and is associated with higher rates…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/gist-rates-rise-with-black-patients-facing-higher-mortality/ TOPLINE: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) have increased in incidence over the past two decades, with notable survival disparities among racial and ethnic groups, particularly among Black patients who face higher mortality…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/naloxone-improves-out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest-survival/ TOPLINE: Naloxone administration by emergency medical services (EMS) is associated with increased rates of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and survival to hospital discharge in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)….
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/nearly-half-of-ai-health-tools-fall-short-on-public-data/ Nearly half of the 521 artificial intelligence (AI) health devices authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 2016 and 2022 lack publicly available clinical validation showing they were…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/top-non-salary-perks-for-doctors/ Holly Wyatt, MD, had spent 20 years in UCHealth with no plans to leave. Her home, support system, and lifestyle were all rooted in Denver. But in 2020, The University of…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/a-tale-of-rheumatologist-volunteers-overseas-and-in-the-us/ As a resident, rheumatologist Daniel Albert, MD, did his first volunteer mission to Afghanistan. The clinic had one portable chest x-ray machine, and physicians could order a complete blood count but…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/hospices-hit-by-funding-crisis/ BBC News Claire (L) with Tracey, who has advanced cancer Five hospices caring for terminally ill people have planned job cuts in the past two months due to financial pressures, BBC…
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/seated-doctors-satisfy-patients/ Sitting at a patient’s bedside is one of the behaviors associated with better doctor-patient communication, patient satisfaction, and trust. During a busy day of consultations, however, it can be difficult for…