Family Medicine Initiative
APRIL 25, 2025
As early as 1897, Hill and Barnard called for standardization of blood pressure measurements, since arm position affects the results (see BMJ 1897 ). Yet, a review in 2014 showed that guidelines and studies still recommend and use different arm positions. So, here is a “standard”… What do the current ESC guidelines from 2024 recommend?
NPR Health
APRIL 25, 2025
Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
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Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing diabetes, heart problems and other chronic diseases. Exactly how age transforms a six pack into a softer stomach, however, is murky.
NPR Health
APRIL 25, 2025
Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin produced by a common gut microbe.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Our lives are filled with binary decisionschoices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our brains when we engage in this kind of decision making?
NPR Health
APRIL 25, 2025
Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2025. Above: She accepts an award at Rihanna's 3rd Annual Diamond Ball in 2017.'/> A kid whose parents couldn't afford school fees is now an "icon" on Time magazine's 2025 list recognizing her work as CEO of Camfed, a charity that gives millions of girls a chance for an education.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease, the brain appears to play a major role by over-activating the immune system, as shown by a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
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Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
New data published in The Journal of Immunology has revealed the role of Plasmodium falciparum infection (malaria) in the development of Burkitt lymphoma (BL), the most common childhood cancer in equatorial Africa and New Guinea. BL has been associated with P. falciparum malaria since 1958, but the underlying mechanism of how it led to cancer had remained a mystery.
NPR Health
APRIL 25, 2025
Have you seen ADHD content pop up in your feeds? Are you getting a lot of it ? In the past few years, there's been a surge in the number of adults diagnosed with ADHD, and at the same time more and more people online are going viral with "signs" that you might have it too. Whether with our doctors or friends, we're all talking a lot more about adult ADHD.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine could soon receive full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company said Wednesday.
Common Sense Family Doctor
APRIL 25, 2025
Match Day on March 21, 2025 unfolded similarly to the National Resident Matching Program in previous years. My program successfully recruited a full class of 13 future interns from medical schools across the country, but family medicine as a whole, despite the typically rosy American Academy of Family Physicians news story , didn't even come close, with 15% of slots unfilled and a quarter of programs needing to enter the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP, previously known as the "S
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Six in 10 women believe they will hit menopause in their 40s, according to survey results released April 8 by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.
NPR Health
APRIL 25, 2025
Whether a "chainsaw," per Elon Musk, or "scalpel," as President Trump has said the Trump administration is making deep cuts to the federal government within its first 100 days. And Trump has appointed personal allies with little experience in government to key cabinet positions. For the civil servants working to enact the missions of these government agencies, that's often meant another word: "chaos.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Take a stroll down the middle aisles of any American grocery store, and you'll be surrounded by rows of brightly colored packaged macaroni and cheese, instant soups and chips in all forms and flavorsall with long ingredient lists. These and other familiar favorites offer consumers a convenient, tasty and often affordable meal or snack.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Differentiated thyroid cancer patients who receive radioiodine (RAI) treatment after surgery have increased relative survival rates compared to those who do not receive the treatment. According to new research published in the April issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the clear trend for a higher long-term survival rate is observed in subgroups of patients with low- and intermediate-risk disease, while there is special benefit in high-risk diseases.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends counseling for women at increased risk for perinatal depression (PND). This recommendation forms the basis of a draft recommendation statement published online April 22.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
More than one in seven adults reported carrying medical debt in 2023, and of these, one in three forwent mental health care in the subsequent year, according to a research letter published online April 18 in JAMA Health Forum.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
The umbilical cord may become a crystal ball of sorts, helping doctors predict the future of children at risk for long-term health problems, including diabetes, stroke, and liver disease.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
A recent global survey of 156 institutions reveals strong interest in VR-haptic technology for dental training, yet significant barriers impede widespread adoption. The study was led by the University of Eastern Finland and published in Frontiers in Dental Medicine.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Scientists have identified five specific blood proteins that can accurately predict a person's risk for developing a serious form of liver disease as early as 16 years before they experience symptoms, enabling early intervention and possible prevention and treatment, according to a study presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2025.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Researchers using next-generation DNA sequencing have identified four specific genes whose mutations are linked to the development and progression of lethal stomach cancers. This could potentially enable doctors to offer targeted treatments that would spare many patients from unnecessarily aggressive procedures, according to a study presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2025.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Researchers from the Endocrine Tumors group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), in collaboration with five university hospitals, have conducted the first comprehensive study of DNA methylation patterns in metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, have existed in the human body as a seeming paradox, causing inflammation and promoting diseases while also helping the immune system to heal wounds.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
Researchers at University of California San Diego found that cigarette smoking continues to decline across the United States, largely driven by young adults. Their study, published in JAMA Network Open on April 25, 2025, reveals that the states with historically high smoking rates have seen the most dramatic declines. However, smoking cessation progress among adults over 50 has been much slower, which could prolong the public health burden of smoking-related diseases and death.
Medical Xpress
APRIL 25, 2025
A 20-year initiative that offered flexible options for colorectal cancer screening at a major integrated health system doubled colorectal cancer screening rates, cut cancer incidence by a third, halved deaths, and brought racial differences in outcomes to nearly zero, according to a study presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2025.
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