Family Medicine Austin

MAY 2, 2025

In today’s fast-paced world, access to quick and reliable healthcare services is more important than ever. When it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), early detection and prompt treatment are crucial for maintaining overall health and preventing the spread of infections. Family Medicine Austin is at the forefront of this mission, utilizing cutting-edge technology to […] The post Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technology for Rapid STD Testing at Family Medicine Austin appeared fir

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MAY 2, 2025

The interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices. (Image credit: Michael A.

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MAY 2, 2025

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have completed a first-in-human clinical trial testing a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique to help the immune system fight advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. The results, recently published in The Lancet Oncology, show encouraging signs of the safety and potential effectiveness of the treatment.

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MAY 2, 2025

Medicaid cuts loom over House Republicans' budget reconciliation. Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Colo. says the "right reforms," like work requirements and stopping "improper" spending, could save money. (Image credit: J.

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MAY 2, 2025

Insomnia, depression, and anxiety are the most common mental disorders. Treatments are often only moderately effective, with many people experiencing returning symptoms. This is why it is crucial to find new leads for treatments. Notably, these disorders overlap a lot, often occurring together. Could there be a shared brain mechanism behind this phenomenon?

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Evergreen Family Medicine

MAY 2, 2025

What’s on Your Shoes Reveals What’s in Your Heart.The cultural divide is immense. Whether officer versus enlisted man, manufacturer or service industry versus governmental oversight agency, or physician versus health care administrator, the distrust and friction are instinctive. Life’s experience bolsters that skepticism.This blog won’t help to heal those feelings.

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MAY 2, 2025

New data from a large, international registry showed balloon-assisted anterior mitral leaflet modification (BATMAN) was safe, effective, and resulted in shorter procedure times among patients undergoing transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR). The data were presented today as late-breaking clinical research at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) 2025 Scientific Sessions.

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MAY 2, 2025

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men worldwide, accounting for more than 1.4 million new cases each year. For many patients, radiotherapy is a standard treatment option that offers outcomes comparable to surgery, particularly for localized disease.

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MAY 2, 2025

VA employees have to report to work in person on Monday. That worries mental health care providers at the agency who say limited space will affect their ability to provide confidentiality to patients.

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MAY 2, 2025

Children with newly diagnosed celiac disease have increased arsenic exposure shortly after transitioning to a gluten-free diet, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

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NPR Health

MAY 2, 2025

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dawn Scott, performance coach and applied sports scientist in elite women's soccer, about the ways female athletes can try to avoid ACL injuries.

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MAY 2, 2025

The future of electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring may soon look like a strand of hair. In place of the traditional metal electrodes, a web of wires and sticky adhesives, a team of researchers from Penn State created a hairlike device for long-term, non-invasive monitoring of the brain's electrical activity. The lightweight and flexible electrode attaches directly to the scalp and delivers stable, high-quality recordings of the brain's signals.

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MAY 2, 2025

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

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MAY 2, 2025

A study has revealed that a pressure-sensing protein known as Piezo1 plays a critical role in supporting gut health. The study's findings may unlock new routes for understanding and treating complex gut disorders.

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MAY 2, 2025

Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a soccer-loving nun born in 1908, is remembered as compassionate and dedicated to her faith.

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MAY 2, 2025

Our brains begin to create internal representations of the world around us from the first moment we open our eyes. We perceptually assemble components of scenes into recognizable objects thanks to neurons in the visual cortex.

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MAY 2, 2025

Planned Parenthood is closing some clinics that offer abortions, even in states where abortion has broad protections, due to new financial pressures.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2025

Researchers at Sutter Health, led by Cheryl Stults, Ph.D., found that an innovative ambient artificial intelligence platform showed promising results in easing the burden of clinical documentation for health care providers. The study, published today in JAMA Network Open, revealed significant reductions in documentation time and improved overall clinician satisfaction.

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MAY 2, 2025

EPA announced plans to reorganize the agency, moving science-focused staff into different roles and reducing the overall number of employees.

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MAY 2, 2025

Researchers at the University of Turku have participated in a study in which vaccinating women with acellular pertussis vaccine in pregnancy boosted the quantity and quality of pertussis-specific antibodies in the early life of infants.

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MAY 2, 2025

The Trump administration has decimated an agency responsible for carrying out much of the research and prevention efforts to curb exposure to dangerous substances and situations in the workplace.

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MAY 2, 2025

Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have revealed critical insights into how impaired mitochondrial dynamics and quality control mechanisms in skeletal muscle influence insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes, or T2D. The study, titled "Deubiquitinating Enzymes Regulate Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Quality Control and Insulin Sensitivity in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes," was recently published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle.

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MAY 2, 2025

The Trump administration will require that all new vaccines get tested against a placebo, a move that could make it harder to make new vaccines available, including the next COVID-19 shots.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2025

Despite decades of public health messaging, Canadians are spending more time in the sun and using less sun protectionraising alarms among researchers as melanoma cases continue to climb.

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MAY 2, 2025

About 6.7 million adults in the U.S. are living with heart failure, and that number is expected to increase to more than 8 million by 2030.

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MAY 2, 2025

Sexual minority men on the receiving end of intimate partner violence also have worse mental health outcomes including depression, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts, according to a new meta-analysis by UConn professor Chenglin Hong.

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MAY 2, 2025

Around the world, people are starting to engage in outdoor activities after a winter spent largely indoors and perhaps with less physical activity than during more temperate seasons. In other climates, people may be starting an indoor, less-active time. Gosia Wamil, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic Health care in London, offers five tips to protect your heart when you spring into action after a sedentary period.

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MAY 2, 2025

The University of Glasgow-led study, run in partnership with the NSPCC and other universities, looked at improving the mental health of almost 500 children aged 05 years in foster and kinship care. It highlighted that authoritative and consistent oversight of a child's journey through the care system was crucial in safeguarding children's well-being.

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MAY 2, 2025

New research from Bayes Business School, in collaboration with biopharmaceuticals company Merck KGaA, suggests member states from the European Union (EU) must work more closely together, provide better incentives for the development of new medicines and approve access to medicines quicker than other international regulators, if it is to attract greater investment from pharmaceutical companies.

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MAY 2, 2025

When technology makes doctors more accessible, it can lead to lower quality for patients and increased pressure on already stressed doctors, says Magnus Wanders. Wanders has worked as a general practitioner himself and completed a doctorate on the topic at the University of Agder (UiA).

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MAY 2, 2025

For older adults in the Western United States, exposure to high levels of smoke pollution is associated with an increase in hospitalizations for respiratory diseases, according to a study published online April 30 in JAMA Network Open.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2025

During the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that people from historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups were more likely than non-Hispanic white people to be infected, be hospitalized and die from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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MAY 2, 2025

New analysis from the EARLY TAVR trial showed patients between the age of 65 and 70 years old derived the most benefits of a strategy of early intervention with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) compared to other age groups, especially in regards to stroke risk, and in regards to the composite of death, stroke, and heart failure hospitalization.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2025

The BCG vaccine protects against tuberculosis, but by inducing trained immunity it also protects against many more respiratory infections. International research led by Radboud University Medical Center shows how this process works. Lactate, a product of scaled-up energy production, appears to play a leading role.

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MAY 2, 2025

More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday.

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