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Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night , she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- PHOENIX -- Cardiac microcurrent (C-MIC) therapy may have great promise in heart failure (HF) -- almost "too good to be true," according to early studies. With accruing evidence, C-MIC therapy met more objective criteria...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said. The tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- Artificial intelligence (AI) has its benefits in the healthcare sphere, but there are also pitfalls to watch out for, one expert said here at the Association of Health Care Journalists Fall Summit. "Digital...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- N-acetylcysteine (NAC) treatment led to changes in functional connectivity and cerebral glucose metabolism in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), a small randomized trial suggested. The study aimed to assess oxidative stress...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Nearly three-quarters of women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who underwent assisted reproductive technology (ART) were able to achieve pregnancy, according to prospective data from a cohort study. Among 52 women who...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CVS Pharmacy and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids, officials said Tuesday...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Two recent deaths tied to counterfeit versions of retatrutide, an investigational weight-loss medication, were reported to the FDA. (CBS News) Meanwhile, ongoing lawsuits allege that GLP-1 receptor agonists can cause severe...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The FDA cleared BridgeSource's SmartRead system for easy identification of cardiac implants by brand. (Mass Device) LDL cholesterol has noticeably improved in young people without atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An estimated 11.4 million new dementia cases occurred worldwide in 2023, and the number is projected to jump to 24.7 million new cases a year by 2050, a meta-analysis of 22 cohort studies showed. (JAMA Neurology) Investigational...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- GLP-1 receptor agonists did not significantly affect anti-VEGF treatment frequency in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME), a large retrospective cohort study showed. Over 24 months of follow-up, "no sustained...
Read full article →Investment firm BlackRock will acquire a majority stake in nearly 150 senior primary care clinics owned by Humana’s healthcare division, CenterWell, the insurer announced Tuesday.
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