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When Topicals Fail for Atopic Dermatitis, What's Next?
1+ day, 54+ min ago (321+ words) Medscape When Topicals Fail for Atopic Dermatitis, What's Next? Clinical Professor; Assistant, Department of Family Medicine, UC Irvine, Santa Ana, California Disclosure: Chuck Vega, MD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships: Add to Email Alerts This is a clinical…...
Blood Proteins Link Poor Sleep to Increased Cancer Risk
10+ hour, 13+ min ago (111+ words) Edited by Madhurima Roy Healthy sleep patterns were associated with lower risks for liver cancer and lung cancer. A novel sleep proteomic score comprising 303 plasma proteins further strengthened these findings, linking healthy sleep to a reduced risk for multiple gastrointestinal…...
Is Ketamine for Depression Moving Too Fast on Weak Data?
13+ hour, 41+ min ago (1677+ words) Twenty-six years ago, researchers at Yale University made a surprising discovery when a small group of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) showed improved symptoms after a single dose of intravenous (IV) ketamine. Since then, other studies have added weight to the…...
Scarring Alopecias More Common in Black People, Urban Areas
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (341+ words) Medscape Scarring Alopecias More Prevalent in Urban Dwellers, Black Women Edited by Gargi Mukherjee Add to Email Alerts In a national study of US adults, the prevalence of primary lymphocytic cicatricial alopecias (PLCAs) was 37 per 100, 000 persons and was higher among…...
Liver & Colorectal Conditions: How New Data Will Impact Care
23+ hour, 37+ min ago (1036+ words) David A. Johnson, MD Professor of Medicine; Chief of Gastroenterology, Eastern Virginia Medical School/Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia Hello. I'm Dr David Johnson, professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia…...
Screening for Suicide Risk in Teens
1+ day, 7+ min ago (707+ words) Susan D. Swick, MD, MPH; Michael S. Jellinek, MD Chief Mental Health Officer, Department of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, Montage Health, Monterey, California Disclosure: Susan D. Swick, MD, MPH, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships." Disclosure: Michael S. Jellinek, MD, has disclosed no…...
Two SMA Drugs Move to Routine NHS Funding
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (414+ words) The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended that two drugs for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) " nusinersen (Spinraza, Biogen) and risdiplam (Evrysdi, Roche) " move to routine NHS commissioning in England, backed by 7 years of real-world evidence collected…...
SGLT2 Inhibitors Show Similar Cardiorenal Benefits
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (335+ words) Medscape Empagliflozin vs Dapagliflozin: Cardiorenal Prevention in T2 D Edited by Shrabasti Bhattacharya Add to Email Alerts Commonly prescribed SGLT2 inhibitors empagliflozin and dapagliflozin demonstrated comparable effectiveness in preventing major cardiovascular and renal events in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2 D) without prior cardiovascular…...
Uraemic Marker Predicts Mortality After Kidney Transplant
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (196+ words) Among adult kidney transplant recipients, plasma levels of symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) were associated with an increased risk for mortality, independent of kidney function. "Plasma SDMA concentrations were associated with a higher mortality risk. Interestingly, these associations strengthened upon adjustment for…...
Inside OCT and IVUS: AI's New Edge in PCI
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (1979+ words) Nelly Abulata, MD, Ph D, MBA; Hani Abdel-Hadi, MBBS, BSc Professor of Hematology, Division of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Kasr Al-Ainy Medical School and University Teaching Hospital, Cairo University, Egypt Disclosure: Nelly Abulata, MD, Ph D, MBA, Pg Dip TQMH,…...