'This Is an Extremely Rare Phenomenon': What We Heard This Week Quotable quotes heard by ֱ's reporters Feb 25, 2024
Health Workers Push for Their Own Confidential Mental Health Treatment Medical professionals want care, not discipline Feb 25, 2024
Three Tools to Address Health Equity Data, communication and respect, and private-sector partnerships are key Feb 25, 2024
How Common Are False-Positives With Rapid COVID Tests? You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz Feb 24, 2024
CAR-T for Autoimmune Disease; Methods of Illegal Opioid Overdose Also in TTHealthWatch: effectiveness of telemedicine abortion Feb 24, 2024 podcast
FDA Authorized Florida's Drug Importation Plan. Naysayers Are Balking. It's not an efficient solution Feb 24, 2024
Healthy Lifestyle Habits May Help Prevent New-Onset IBS Adhering to even one healthy habit was significantly associated with lower incidence Feb 24, 2024
Benralizumab Matches Mepolizumab for Rare Vasculitis Similar rates of patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis achieved remission Feb 23, 2024
FDA Approves Antibiotic Combination for Complicated UTIs Cefepime-enmetazobactam beat piperacillin-tazobactam in phase III study Feb 23, 2024
Alzheimer's Supplements Fail Compared With Generic Drugs Prescription galantamine drugs were labeled accurately, but dietary supplements were not Feb 23, 2024
'Eye Opening': Chatbot Outperforms Ophthalmologists "There's no place where people did better" in response to prompts about glaucoma, retinal health Feb 23, 2024
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Prior Authorization? Possibly, but "complete transparency" about its use would be needed, expert says Feb 23, 2024
Changing the Surgical Paradigm in Oligometastatic NSCLC Propensity-score matched analysis suggests survival benefit with surgery to the primary tumor Feb 23, 2024
Idaho Sees Exodus of Obstetricians After Abortion Ban State lost 22% of its practicing obstetricians over a 15-month period Feb 23, 2024
Motor Function in Spinal Muscular Atrophy May Improve With Adjunctive Apitegromab Effect seen with background nusinersen therapy Feb 23, 2024
What We Can Learn From the 2023 Lunar New Year Shootings Asian American and Pacific Islander communities should be included in future research Feb 23, 2024
FDA OKs Device for Pediatric Kidney Injury Due to Sepsis The device was granted a Humanitarian Device Exemption approval Feb 23, 2024
Transforming Shots Into Pills; 'Tip of the Iceberg' for TILs? Food Additives Warning News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Feb 23, 2024
CDC Addresses Rebound of Mycoplasma Pneumonia in Kids Numbers were indeed up in the fall of 2023, but higher before the pandemic Feb 23, 2024
Faster Cures, More Genetic Treatments: A Q&A With NIH's Joni Rutter The NCATS Biomedical Data Translator is giving researchers ideas for new disease therapies Feb 23, 2024
Make the Diagnosis: A Blue-Black Facial Nodule -- What's Your Best Guess? A 64-year-old postal worker visited his doctor about a lesion that he first noticed on his face 2 months prior. Can you diagnose the patient? Feb 23, 2024
Florida Defies CDC Amid Measles Outbreak, Says Unvaccinated Kids Can Attend School CDC advises that unvaccinated students stay home from school for 3 weeks after exposure Feb 23, 2024
Study Identifies Ways to Improve Gender-Affirming Healthcare Interviews with transgender adults yields provider- and systems-level guidance for better care Feb 23, 2024 video
NBA Champion, 'Survivor' Contestant Receives Heart Transplant Scot Pollard "feeling great" following surgery, his wife says Feb 23, 2024
Wendy Williams' Dementia; 48% Back 16-Week Abortion Ban; Hospital Sues Quadriplegic Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Feb 23, 2024
Wendy Williams Has Frontotemporal Dementia. What Is FTD? An explainer of the talk show host's recently diagnosed condition Feb 23, 2024
Brain Dysfunction, Immune Abnormalities Seen in Post-Infectious Chronic Fatigue Deep phenotyping study provides new clues about ME/CFS Feb 22, 2024
Novel Hepatitis E Vaccine Protects for at Least a Decade Chinese trial shows "remarkable efficacy" against a threat experts warn may be underappreciated Feb 22, 2024
Another COVID Toll: Over 134,000 Undiagnosed Cancers During Height of Pandemic Diagnosis rates remained low throughout 2020, with mortality increase projected Feb 22, 2024
How Many Docs Are Feeling Burned Out? Almost All of Them, Survey Finds More than half have considered taking a non-patient-facing job or leaving the field entirely Feb 22, 2024
Can the Ketogenic Diet Treat Mental Illness? Reports are promising, but rigorous trials are needed, experts say Feb 22, 2024
Why Patients Need to Come Clean About Cannabis to Their Anesthesiologist If they don't, things could get complicated Feb 22, 2024
Male Fertility Problems in the Family Linked to Cancer Risk Low sperm levels were tied to specific cancers in family members Feb 22, 2024
Elon Musk vs Ob/Gyns; Med Student Finds Her Own Cancer; Medical Tattoos Rated Healthcare social media content from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Feb 22, 2024
Cabozantinib Plus Atezolizumab Improves PFS in Metastatic CRPC A non-hormonal therapy control arm is appropriate in trials, says Neeraj Agarwal, MD Feb 22, 2024 video
Acupuncture Tops Sham for Easing PTSD in Combat Veterans Large treatment effect observed for clinical and biological measures of combat-related PTSD Feb 22, 2024
FDA: Don't Use Smartwatches, Smart Rings for Blood Glucose Measurements Noninvasive devices that don't pierce the skin can give inaccurate measurements Feb 22, 2024
Hospital CEO Died After Surgery, Lawsuit Follows; Doc Sues Over Noncompete A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Feb 22, 2024
Do Organ Transplants Cause Personality Changes? Anecdotal evidence suggests a real possibility, but more research is needed Feb 22, 2024
