Cold Weather Heart Attacks; Preemptive Valve Procedures Flop; Better Bleeding Score Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Oct 29, 2024
AirPods' Hearing Aid Feature Could Help People Face a Problem They'd Rather Ignore Apple's new feature can boost voices, media, and phone calls, and maybe lessen stigma Oct 29, 2024
Early AKI Care Recommendations Did Not Improve Patient Outcomes Personalized recs were made by team of physicians and pharmacists within an hour of diagnosis Oct 29, 2024
Surprising Mediator Links Poverty and Knee Pain Study: It's not deprivation per se, but intervening factors that go with it Oct 29, 2024
Alzheimer's Trials Investigated; Chronic Pain Predicted; Dementia Drugs and AMD News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Oct 29, 2024
Heart Attack Patients Who Receive Heparin ASAP Are Better Primed for Cath Lab Administration at first medical contact at PCI hospital tied to more spontaneous reperfusion Oct 29, 2024
Promising Findings for Nipocalimab in Myasthenia Gravis Fixed-schedule infusion offers steady symptom control Oct 29, 2024 video
Why Medicine Is Bad at Customer Service -- And How to Fix It Healthcare is one of few industries still lacking in convenience Oct 29, 2024
SGLT2 Inhibitor Carry-Over Benefits Last How Long? Trial follow-up defines the need for long-term treatment in protecting the kidneys and heart Oct 29, 2024
Kidney Disease Genetic Risk Common in West Africans Observational study points to genetic risk allele dose-response Oct 29, 2024
Lasting Effects of Racial Discrimination in Medical School Discrimination tied to lack of personal, professional development fostered by institutions Oct 29, 2024 video
Low-Volume Bowel Prep Matches Standard for Inpatient Colonoscopy Patients also found MoviPrep to be more tolerable and were more willing to repeat it Oct 29, 2024
Ebola-Like Virus Death in the U.S.; Pill Cuts COVID Spread; What Are Healthy Diets? Health news and commentary gathered by 51˶ staff Oct 29, 2024
People Opting Out of Organ Donation After Donor Mistakenly Declared Dead The alleged incident even affected donations in France Oct 29, 2024
Stent-Like Hybrid on Track for Lofty Long-Term Goals in PCI Stent-related events plateaued 6 months after DynamX implant Oct 28, 2024
No Kidney Benefit With Finerenone in Heart Failure Patients Anti-mineralocorticoid agent reduced albuminuria, but not eGFR-based kidney outcome Oct 28, 2024
Blood Test for CRC Screening Lags Behind Other Options in Cost-Effectiveness Study Fewer cancers, cancer deaths prevented; higher cost per quality-year saved Oct 28, 2024
Filgotinib Maintains RA Efficacy for 3 Years, No New Safety Issues Looks like FDA blew the call on selective JAK1 inhibitor Oct 28, 2024
Obesity May Raise Risk of Long COVID in Youth Researchers observed dose-response relationship for increasing BMI and long COVID risk Oct 28, 2024
What Is the Optimal Reliever Therapy for Difficult-to-Control Asthma? Meta-analysis says anti-inflammatory relievers beat bronchodilators in reducing exacerbations Oct 28, 2024
Complement Inhibitor Shows Promise for Rare Kidney Disorder Ravulizumab reduced proteinuria, stabilized eGFR in IgA nephropathy Oct 28, 2024
A Look at the Supreme Court's Upcoming Term Public health is on the chopping block once again Oct 28, 2024
Study: Medicare's Competitive Bidding Program Not a Danger to COPD Oxygen Users Prices went down but reductions in new oxygen prescriptions and discontinuations were minimal Oct 28, 2024
Remote Patient Monitoring Is a Great Idea. But What's the Best Way to Use It? We need to figure out how to collect data that patients can really act on Oct 28, 2024
Presidential Election Puts the Affordable Care Act Back in the Bull's-Eye The two parties' goals have stark differences Oct 28, 2024
Hospitals' AI Transcription Tool Invents Things No One Ever Said, Researchers Say Chunks of text or even entire sentences were made up, according to experts Oct 28, 2024
Daylight Saving Ends Next Weekend: How to Prepare for the Potential Health Effects What to know about "falling back" Oct 28, 2024
Major Win for Preemptive TAVR in Symptomless Aortic Stenosis Larger pool of TAVR candidates suggested by EARLY TAVR trial results Oct 28, 2024
Prenatal Cannabis Exposure Linked to Poor Executive Function, Aggression in Kids Associations observed when kids were 5 years old Oct 28, 2024
Trump and Eugenics; Doctors Poised to Strike; Laced Pizza Sickens Dozens Health news and commentary gathered by 51˶ staff Oct 28, 2024
Interim ALIGN Data: Atrasentan Cuts Proteinuria in IgA Nephropathy Surrogate endpoint of urinary protein-to-creatinine ratio "widely considered to be predictive" Oct 27, 2024
Dupilumab Proves Effective in Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria Significant reduction in hives and itch in antihistamine-resistant patients Oct 27, 2024
'This Was Not a Rare or Exceptional Circumstance': What We Heard This Week Quotable quotes heard by 51˶'s reporters Oct 27, 2024
PBM Math: Big Chains Get $23.55 for Blood Pressure Rx as Small Drugstores Get $1.51 Small pharmacies face deep financial disparities Oct 27, 2024
Going Beyond Hearing Aids for Equal Care Access Hearing loss is only becoming more prevalent Oct 27, 2024
Alternative Pathway Inhibition Makes Good in IgA Nephropathy Treatment with iptacopan reduces proteinuria in interim APPLAUSE-IgAN analysis Oct 26, 2024
Did CDC Recommend a Second Dose of the New COVID Vaccine for All Adults? You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz Oct 26, 2024
Pediatric Febrile UTI May Hurt Kidney Function Study also raises question of antibiotic prophylaxis in kids with common congenital anomaly Oct 26, 2024
Metformin and Congenital Abnormalities; Deprescribing in Patients With Dementia Also in TTHealthWatch: best medications for opioid use disorder Oct 26, 2024 podcast
I'm a Black Trauma Surgeon. Ending Gun Violence Demands Fighting for Racial Justice. An excerpt from Williams' book, The Bodies Keep Coming Oct 26, 2024