Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month , so there’s no better time to spotlight the importance of maintaining your teeth and gums. A smile is the best thing you can wear, so it’s important to upkeep your oral health. Although having good oral hygiene can certainly help the way your teeth look, keeping clean teeth and gums also helps your overall health, too.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Triple semicircular canal plugging (TSCP) is effective for vertigo control but is associated with a risk for hearing loss in patients with Meniere disease (MD), according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online Dec. 5 in PLOS ONE.

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NPR Health

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The new administration's freeze on foreign aid (affecting America's sweeping anti-HIV initiative PEPFAR) has raised concerns about the dispersal of the pills taken daily by those who are HIV positive.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its frontline defendersT cellslose their ability to function effectively. Research, led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center (Peter Mac), have identified a rare type of immune cells, called stem-like T cells, that holds the key to maintaining powerful, long-term immune responses.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

I've spent the past week as the attending physician on my residency program's adult inpatient service. Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

If your pet alligator escapes, don't call for an ambulanceunless it has sunk its teeth into someone.

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