Dr. Shin's Notes
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
For years, we’ve been told that our genes hold the key to our health and longevity. But what if lifestyle choices and environmental factors play a much bigger role? A groundbreaking study from the University of Oxford suggests just that—revealing that behaviors like smoking, exercise, and socioeconomic conditions have a far greater impact on aging… Read More » Genes vs.
NPR Health
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.
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Southwest Family Physicians
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Sleep Sleep is a very important part of a healthy mind and body. How much sleep should you get per night? And why is this important?… Most adults need 7 or more hours of sleep each night. It’s also important to get good-quality sleep on a regular schedule so you feel rested when you wake up. Why is getting enough sleep important? According to ODPHP, getting enough sleep has many benefits.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation. The technique, called "DeepFocus," uses transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) on the scalp and transnasal electrical stimulation (TnES) to achieve more accurate electrical stimulation in the brain. The findings are published in the Journal of Neural Engineering.
Evergreen Family Medicine
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Providers, Staff, and patients share concerns and some confusion regarding EFM’s decision to terminate its contract with TriWest. What follows is an in-depth explanation of the process underlying that decision. It will take a bit to get through. But if understanding our decision is important to you, this context is important.On October 31, 2021, Evergreen terminated its contract with TriWest Community Care Network, administered by Health Net.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
University of California, Los Angeles researchers have discovered that chronic stress flips brain activity between two amygdala-striatal pathways, disrupting flexible decision-making and promoting inflexible habits.
NPR Health
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had his first court appearance since he was arraigned in December on charges including murder as an act of terrorism.
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NPR Health
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
FEWS NET, the U.S. early warning system for famine, shut down after the foreign aid freeze. What are the consequences? And why does the U.S. has a famine early warning system in the first place?
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The new approach, which requires further development and testing, could someday enable the much wider use of islet transplants to cure diabetes.
NPR Health
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had his first court appearance since he was arraigned in December on charges including murder as an act of terrorism.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
A novel PET technique that visualizes spinal cord injuries provides critical information about which patients may be able to regain mobility, according to new research published in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. By detecting intact nerve connections in the injured spinal cord, a newly developed radiotracer has the potential to help diagnose injuries more precisely, monitor recovery, and evaluate the effectiveness of new therapies in clinical trials.
Common Sense Family Doctor
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. But if there was ever a more fertile environment for this age-old contagion to come roaring back in the U.S., this is it. As a measles outbreak in West Texas approaches 100 cases and the national percentage of kindergarten-age children who have received measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has fallen below 93% , vaccine conspiracy theory amplifier Robert F.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
A diet of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy foods and lean meats, low in salt and sugar, is associated with reduced psoriasis severity, new research finds.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Adding a personalized mRNA vaccine to standard treatment could offer new hope for pancreatic cancer patients, a small yet promising study from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Blood proteins serve as crucial indicators of health and disease risk throughout development. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have revealed how these proteins are regulated during childhood and adolescence, providing a vital foundation for understanding disease mechanisms and developing better diagnostic tools.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Higher calcium intake is associated with reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) risk across tumor sites and calcium sources, according to a study published online Feb. 17 in JAMA Network Open.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
The combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed opioid medications is associated with a pattern of escalating opioid intake, a new study has found.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Researchers have discovered and analyzed a rare but serious side effect of an innovative form of blood cancer therapy. The scientists from the University of Leipzig Medical Center, the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI) and the University Hospital of Cologne have published their findings in Nature Medicine.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
The vast majority of people who have a substance use disorder (SUD) never seek treatment. At most, 10% of adults with a drug or alcohol use disorder have entered any type of inpatient or outpatient treatment program, as reported by SAMHSA.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Texas has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the country, with more than 2.7 million Texans diagnosed with the condition. About one in six people in San Antonio have type 2 diabetes, and a third of residents are prediabetic, according to the American Diabetes Association.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are associated with a reduced risk for moderate or severe COPD exacerbations compared with dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (DPP-4is), according to a study published online Feb. 10 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Combining an existing small-molecule protein therapy called tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) with focused ultrasound (FUS) can significantly reduce tumor size and burden in prostate cancer models, according to a new study published in Advanced Science by researchers at Rice University and Vanderbilt University.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Got milk? It turns out, plain cow's milk, water and a bit of veggie juice are still the best drink choices for kids and teens.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Adolescents who spend more than three hours a day engaged in sedentary behaviorsincluding playing video games, reading for leisure or spending a lot of time distracted by screenshave a higher risk of facing psychological distress in the future, according to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
One of the NBA's most exciting rising stars will spend the rest of the 20242025 season on the bench.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Persistence of stigma toward people living with HIV has puzzled scientists looking at the numerous destigmatization campaigns that have taken place in the U.S. in the four decades since its initial discovery. Scientists have explained the presence of stigma with the fact that people with HIV have in the past been legally excluded and marked as criminals, and because of the overlap in LGBTQ+ populations and HIV-positive people.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Tuberculosis (TB) has long been recognized as a disease of poverty, yet most TB research does not measure poverty in a meaningful way. A new review in the journal BMC Global and Public Health examines existing methods for assessing socioeconomic status in TB studies and highlights their shortcomings. The authors call for better, standardized poverty metrics to improve research and policy.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Despite considerable efforts to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the United States, a new retrospective study led by American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers revealed that close to half of patients with advanced cancer received potentially aggressive care at the end-of-life at the expense of supportive care.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
A clinical research team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), and international genetic researchers led a global research study using multi-omics analysis and identified a novel gene, DDX39B, for a rare disease.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? If you rewind to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, chances are you experienced some level of pessimism. And who could blame you? With social isolation, health concerns and economic uncertainty, fear and anxiety became a daily reality for many.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
The sport of roller skiing has long been plagued with concerns. The wheels of the skis roll differently, which can cause the individual's speed to vary considerably, and as such, the finish times can be impacted by several minutes.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing fetus and forms a strong barrier against microbes and chemicals that could harm the fetus, has not been clear. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine with collaborators at Pennsylvania State University report in Nature Communications a strategy Zika virus uses to covertly spread in placental cells,
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency health care needs, rehospitalization or death. The tool measured patient frailty, an aging-related syndrome, by integrating the health records of more than 500,000 individuals collected across multiple hospitals at Mass General Brigham.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure and high levels of protein in the urine (proteinuria), indicating damage to the kidneys or other organ damage, is the main cause of maternal-fetal death in Brazil and the runner-up worldwide. In a Brazilian study published in the journal PLOS ONE, the pattern of substances present in patient blood samples varied according to the severity of the preeclampsia concerned.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Most dietary programs are designed to help people achieve weight loss or adhere to U.S. nutrition guidelines, which currently make no mention of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). UPFslike chips or candyare the mass-produced, packaged products that contain little or no naturally occurring foods. Eating UPFs is strongly associated with increased risk of diseases and early death.
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