NPR Health
MARCH 28, 2025
A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
In what is believed to be a world-first study, researchers from the University of Adelaide's Australian Dysautonomia and Arrhythmia Research Collaborative (ADARC) have used brain scans to identify blood flow problems in people with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut
MARCH 28, 2025
When you’re living with diabetes, thyroid disease, osteoporosis or another hormonal condition, working with the right hormone doctor is crucial for getting the care you need and staying healthy. But choosing a doctor can feel daunting, especially when there are many hormone doctors in your area. Here are some tips for choosing the best Connecticut-based hormone doctor for your unique needs.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
As a measles outbreak spreads across the U.S., doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: children getting sick from taking too much vitamin A.
Center for Family Medicine
MARCH 28, 2025
Is Arthritic Pain Taking Over Your Life? Joints are necessary for daily movement, work, and everything in between. If the joints are painful and stiff, then even the simplest activities become challenging. Joint pain is a common reason for a doctor’s visit. In many cases, the diagnosis is arthritic pain. Arthritis is a general term signifying inflammation and possible damage to the cartilage and bone of a joint.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Many everyday skills, such as speech, are not innate. They are learned through trial and error. Now, by analyzing young songbirds rehearsing their fathers' songs, researchers at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have for the first time witnessed the role that the brain's reward machinery plays as the brain naturally learns over time through practice.
NPR Health
MARCH 28, 2025
The remaining USAID employees were given an end-of-employment date in an email sent out today.
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Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Cutaneous melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, is characterized by its accumulation of a large number of mutations. Although some of these alterations should be recognized as a threat by our defenses, melanomas often escape immune system surveillance. As a result, more than half of patients do not generally respond to current immunotherapies.
NPR Health
MARCH 28, 2025
'/> The growing number of concierge medical practices limit the number of patients and charge them membership fees. Will this worsen the ongoing shortage of primary care doctors for everyone else?
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
An Australian-first study demonstrating the effectiveness of a new immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for babies found it to be almost 90% effective in reducing hospitalization rates and helped more than 500 WA families avoid a hospital stay.
CDOCS
MARCH 28, 2025
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Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
A team of Norwegian researchers, through international collaboration, found that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) during colonoscopy increased the detection of polyps by about 8%, but the risk of cancer was minimally affected.
NPR Health
MARCH 28, 2025
Measles spreads quickly in communities where vaccination rates are low - and vaccine hesitancy has been on the rise for years. But amid a growing outbreak in Texas, vaccine enthusiasm is growing, as parents try to get their kids vaccinated early.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
In a position statement issued by the American Academy of Neurology and published online March 12 in Neurology, an updated consensus is presented relating to seizures, driving licensure, and medical reporting.
Common Sense Family Doctor
MARCH 28, 2025
As of March 27, 2025, 19 states had confirmed a total of 483 measles infections , with 444 cases associated with an ongoing outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico that began in late January. 70 people (14%) have been hospitalized for serious illnesses, and one child and one adult have died. For comparison, there were 285 cases of measles in the United States in 2024, and there have already been more reported cases than in all but two years since 2000.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Damaged human livers can repair themselves. Even livers badly scarred from excessive alcohol use, including alcohol-related hepatitis and cirrhosis, have the potential to improve with a treatment plan that includes medication, abstinence, and emotional support.
NPR Health
MARCH 28, 2025
and turn on your headlights. "I have a little saying that goes, 'if your wipers are going, your headlights are glowing,'" says Hector Carias, an officer with the California Highway Patrol.'/> Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S. A highway patrol officer explains how drivers should handle emergency scenarios, from extreme weather to aggressive tailgaters.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
According to a recent study from the University of Jyvskyl, Finland, the impacts of everyday physical activity do not attenuate the accelerated hormonal bone loss that occurs during menopause. Effective bone-loading impacts are rare in everyday life. Future research should explore whether more targeted exercise can slow menopausal bone loss. The study suggests that impacts accumulated during everyday life are not sufficient to slow hormonal bone loss during menopause.
NPR Health
MARCH 28, 2025
Gavi, which helps countries purchase and distribute vaccines, is among thousands of programs determined to be "inconsistent with the national interest or Agency policy priorities.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), long-term inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment is associated with increased rates of adverse composite and specific individual outcomes, according to a study published in the March/April issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
NPR Health
MARCH 28, 2025
The Trump administration Thursday announced a major restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that will cut 20,000 full-time jobs or 25% of its staff.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
For anybody who's struggled to pull together a grocery list or plan a week of family meals, the promise of assistance from artificial intelligence is downright appetizing.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Exercise could potentially reduce the recurrence rate of breast cancer, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Even preschool children can recognize a hypocrite. And, just like adults, they don't have the best opinion of such people: they assess hypocrites more negatively than they do other people who break commonly accepted rules, a study conducted by researchers from SWPS University shows.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Early diagnosis of COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, increases the quality of life of the patient and the efficacy of available treatments. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now shown that material from nasal lavage provides a basis for assessing COPD. The study, which has been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, could lead to a simple diagnostic method for early assessment of COPD.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
A high proportion of women seem to undergo mammography screening every year, despite recommendations for biennial screening, according to a research letter published online March 25 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Triglycerides are a vital source of energy, but when levels become dangerously high, they can lead to serious health complications, including pancreatitis. One such condition, chylomicronemia, is a rare but severe disorder in which triglyceride levels exceed 1,000 mg/dL, increasing the risk of life-threatening complications.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Researchers from Critical Path Institute's (C-Path) Predictive Safety Testing Consortium have proposed glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH) as a more liver-specific biomarker for detecting liver injury, supporting clearer decision-making. Currently, alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase (ALT and AST) are considered the "gold standard" biomarkers in clinical practice and drug development.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Steroid hormone levels in healthy adults are influenced by oral contraceptives and smoking, as well as other lifestyle choices and factors such as biological sex and age, according to new research that has just been published in the journal Science Advances.
Medical Xpress
MARCH 28, 2025
Measles is a highly contagious disease that was declared eliminated from the U.S. by the World Health Organization 25 years ago due to the success of vaccination efforts. Yet, Texas counties primarily in the South Plains and Panhandle regions, continue to deal with the state's largest measles outbreak in 30 years.
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