Cataract Surgery Linked With Fewer Falls, Traumatic Injuries in Older Patients Study adds leg and ankle fractures, intracranial hemorrhage to evidence on falls, hip fracture Oct 20, 2024
RSV Vaccine Tied to Fewer Hospitalizations, ED Visits in Older, High-Risk Adults However, questions remain about durability of vaccine protection, expert says Oct 20, 2024
Case Against Perioperative Beta-Blockers Grows Stronger Excess postoperative strokes, and accompanying racial disparities, tied to any beta-blocker use Oct 20, 2024
Retinal Injections May Increase Risk for Cataract Surgery Complications History of injections tied to multiple postop complications, but data open to questioning Oct 20, 2024
Myasthenia Gravis Patients May Use Less Steroids After Starting Efgartigimod Insurance claims data show lower glucocorticoid usage at 1 year Oct 20, 2024
Deep Neuromuscular Blockade Helps Keyhole Surgery, but Not Outcomes Per Se No impact on safety outcomes after laparoscopic surgery Oct 20, 2024
'This Medical Report Will Have Little Effect': What We Heard This Week Quotable quotes heard by 51˶'s reporters Oct 20, 2024
Patients Are Relying on Lyft, Uber to Travel Far Distances to Medical Care Some are calling for states to subsidize the expensive trips for rural residents Oct 20, 2024
The Cure to Gun Violence Begins at the Ballot Box, Not the Trauma Bay The most impactful solutions extend beyond the clinical walls to the halls of government Oct 20, 2024
Shorter Course of Antibiotics Works for Bloodstream Infections With few exceptions, treatment can be shortened to 7 days, researcher says Oct 19, 2024
Sustained Disease Control in Adolescent Myasthenia Gravis With FcRn Blocker Nipocalimab plus standard of care reduced IgG and was well tolerated Oct 19, 2024
What's in Kamala Harris' Medical History? You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz Oct 19, 2024
Novel Monoclonal Antibody Protects Infants Against RSV Clesrovimab reduced severe disease, hospitalizations in preterm and term healthy infants Oct 19, 2024
Rainfall and Mortality; Identifying Risk for Preeclampsia Also in TTHealthWatch: HIV-positive kidney donors Oct 19, 2024 podcast
Informed Consent, Inclusion Prioritized in Revised Ethics for Human Trials World Medical Association releases "Declaration of Helsinki" principles for medical research Oct 19, 2024
Women and Children First -- Or Not A look at the presidential candidates' records on maternal and child health Oct 19, 2024
Whooping Cough in the U.S. Is at a Decade-High Level In Wisconsin, there have been about 1,000 cases so far this year versus a total of 51 last year Oct 19, 2024
Study: OUD Patients More Likely to Stay on Methadone Than Buprenorphine/Naloxone Findings make a "strong case" for making methadone available in all settings, researcher says Oct 18, 2024 video
'Virtual ED' Helps One Health System Avoid Unnecessary Emergency Department Visits Half of patients referred to care at home, doctor's office, or urgent care Oct 18, 2024
Novel Targeted Drug Approved for Stomach Cancers Zolbetuximab indicated alongside fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy Oct 18, 2024
Diet and Prostate Cancer; TTFields OK'd for NSCLC; Cancer Studies Retracted -- News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Oct 18, 2024
Tpoxx No Better Than Placebo for Clade I Mpox "We have no current effective therapies," for mpox, expert warns Oct 18, 2024
Teen Smoking, Other Tobacco Use Dropped to Lowest Level in 25 Years, CDC Reports A drop in vaping largely explains the overall decline in tobacco use Oct 18, 2024
Immunotherapy and Immune-Related Adverse Events Use of immune checkpoint inhibitors comes with a variety of potential side effects Oct 18, 2024
Drugmaker Pulls Trodelvy's Bladder Cancer Approval In confirmatory trial, antibody-drug conjugate failed to improve OS versus chemotherapy Oct 18, 2024
How Does This Year's Flu Shot Stack Up? Effectiveness appears to be on a downward trend, CDC data suggest Oct 18, 2024
CDC Reminds Docs About This Flesh-Eating Worm Previously eradicated in the U.S., New World screwworms have been creeping north Oct 18, 2024
MedPod Today: Med Ed Drama; Chiropractic in Academia; MA 'Extra Benefits' Worth It? 51˶ reporters offer further insights into these recently covered topics Oct 18, 2024 podcast
Serious Battery Issue Prompts Medtronic Insulin Pump Recall Problem linked to 170 reports of hyperglycemia and 11 ketoacidosis cases Oct 18, 2024
Gene Therapy Details Revealed in Duchenne Trial Differences between delandistrogene moxeparvovec and placebo emerge in secondary outcomes Oct 18, 2024
Influenced by Social Media? Half of physicians reported changing their prescribing choices based on content from a healthcare influencer or key opinion leader on social media, a survey found Oct 18, 2024
Organ Donor Comes Back to Life; New Flu Shot Is Different; Doc Sued for Trans Care Health news and commentary gathered by 51˶ staff Oct 18, 2024
Shorter Medical Degree Program Outcomes Just as Good NYU finds its accelerated program matches the traditional program on key measures Oct 18, 2024
New Estimates Show Over 4 Million People in the U.S. Have Glaucoma Black adults roughly twice as likely as white adults to be affected Oct 17, 2024
Pumpkin Safety Tips; Sleep MD Snoozing Tricks; What It's Like to Date a Resident Healthcare social media content gathered by 51˶ staff Oct 17, 2024
How Unconventional Thinkers Unlock Medical Innovation An excerpt from Murphy's book, The Essence of Invention Oct 17, 2024
Stroke Survivors Still Prescribed a 'Concerning' Amount of Benzos Red flag in nationwide data despite improvement since 2013 Oct 17, 2024
Air Pollution Risky After Lung Transplant Living in polluted zip codes was linked to worse outcomes after transplant Oct 17, 2024