Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This week, we’re adding the final touches to your action plan for transitioning into your ideal practice of medicine. So far, we’ve: - Explored perspectives on the future of medicine - Defined goals and visions for your practice - Addressed mindset obstacles , including limiting beliefs - Transformed challenges into strategies - Prioritized and calendared your plan Now, it’s time to move into implementation and tackle the inevitable obstacles that will arise.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

UAB research has characterized in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus able to reach the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Saturday marks the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. NPR has compiled plenty of expert tips for celebrating the solstice and weathering winter.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A research team led by Prof. Seung-Kyun Kang from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University has developed a strain sensor with record-breaking sensitivity in collaboration with researchers from Dankook University, Ajou University, and Purdue University.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Patients are protesting, bipartisan lawmakers are threatening regulation and investors are selling their shares.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

An investigational therapy is demonstrating preclinical promise against non-Hodgkin lymphoma by boosting natural killer cells and efficiently annihilating the malignancy without toxicity to the patient, a team of cancer biologists in France has found.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 20, 2024

People love looking at photos. (Just ask Instagram.) This year, we published a number of photo-driven posts that resonated deeply with our audience. Here are some of our favorites.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since 2018, readers and listeners sent KFF Health News-NPR's "Bill of the Month" thousands of questionable bills.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

UC Davis Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology Dan Cortez has set another world record: He is the first to implant a dual chamber leadless pacemaker in a child. His case report was published this week in the journal Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology.

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Family Integrative Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A Season for Celebration—and Extra Care for Your Health The holidays are a season of joy, connection, and celebration—a time to indulge in traditions, reunite with loved ones, and reflect on what matters most. Yet, this time of year can also challenge your health.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking. The research is published in eBioMedicine.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 20, 2024

On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency to streamline the state's response to avian flu. More than half of the human cases in the U.S. so far have been in California.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects motor neurons. The average life span after diagnosis of this incurable disease is two to five years.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last month. Health correspondent Rob Stein got exclusive access to be in the operating room. Towana is a 53-year-old grandmother from Gadsden, Ala. She's been on dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week since 2016. Her immune system would reject a human kidney.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Just over 300 people have been sickened in norovirus outbreaks on three different cruise ships in December, new government data shows.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 20, 2024

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

When you are feeling hungry, the brain takes the necessary steps toward consuming a meal. Many of these steps are not well known, but a new study published in the journal Metabolism by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reveals brain circuits and chemical messengers that contribute to the regulation of meal initiation and food intake.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Patiencelike its corollary impatiencehas always been a sort of "I know it when I see it" concept. And that didn't sit well with UC Riverside psychology researcher Kate Sweeny.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects about 400 million people worldwide and is a leading cause of serious illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, liver disease and stroke. Beyond these physical impacts, AUD profoundly disrupts brain functions critical for learning, memory and adaptabilitykey elements of cognitive flexibility.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A study by University of Michigan researchers may provide an explanation for why some patients with Crohn's disease continue to experience symptoms, even in the absence of inflammation.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Researchers have been able to identify at least three distinct subtypes of a rare type of bone cancer for the first time, which could transform clinical trials and patient care.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Bone is a highly vascularized tissue, and the link between angiogenesis -blood vessel formation- and bone healing has long been discussed by the scientific community, with several studies describing the impairment of bone healing because of lack of or diminished angiogenesis. Traditional approaches like grafting often result in complications due to an inadequate vascular supply to implants, leading to poor integration and necrotic tissue.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

An international research team, including researchers at Karolinska Institutet, has mapped the genes expressed in the brain cells of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The atlas, which is presented in the journal Neuron, is hoped to contribute to more personalized treatment of MS in the future.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Can simple diet and lifestyle changes keep your brain healthy? Do you have the power to prevent Alzheimer's disease and dementia or lower your MS risks?

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A new paper from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers is helping to reveal the "rules" for engineering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) Tregs.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Frito-Lay has issued a limited recall of select 13-oz bags of Lay's Classic Potato Chips due to the potential presence of undeclared milk, which could pose a serious health risk to individuals with a milk allergy.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

An outbreak of salmonella linked to cucumbers has now been tied to 100 known cases of the illness across 23 states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported Thursday.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A new prediction model for infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) offers a groundbreaking approach to improving patient outcomes. Developed by a team of researchers across eight Chinese hospitals, the model harnesses five early clinical indicatorsrespiratory rate, temperature, serum glucose, calcium, and blood urea nitrogen (BUN)to identify high-risk patients within 24 hours of hospital admission.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For women undergoing breast reconstruction after mastectomy, older age is associated with small but significant increases in certain complications, reports a study in the journal Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The economic impact of dental caries (tooth decay) is disproportionately higher in the most deprived groups, with estimated per-person costs of approximately 18,000 in the UK that could be dramatically reduced with targeted preventative measures, found new research.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Led by Aliyu Tetengi Ibrahim and his team at Ahmadu Bello University, a study published in Data Science and Management on November 2, 2024, introduces an innovative AI model that could revolutionize the way dermatologists detect skin cancer.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Stanford Medicine researchers have built an artificial intelligence tool that can read thousands of doctors' notes in electronic medical records and detect trends, providing information that physicians and researchers hope will improve care.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The World Health Organization and the Rwandan government on Friday declared the outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever over after no new cases were registered in recent weeks.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

What does it take to design a new needle for medical use? When the needle needs to be much thinner and sharper than any commercially existing needle and designed to deliver treatments to a previously inaccessible tissue, the answer is years of collaboration between a close-knit team of physicians and engineers.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In a pivotal move, the United States Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will review South Carolina's controversial decision to cut off state funding for Planned Parenthood clinics, which provide critical health services to low-income residents.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Researchers have analyzed cause-of-death data for 24 countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers found that life expectancy declined in 2020 for all but four of the 24 included countries, with the US experiencing the largest decline of 2.1 years for males. In 2021, most countries experienced further declines in life expectancy, with females in Bulgaria and males in Latvia experiencing the largest losses of over two years.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The U.S. flu season is underway, with cases surging across much of the country, health officials said Friday.

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