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Emergency room departments are reporting soaring numbers of pediatric trauma accidents associated with micromobility devices. Experts and advocates agree that the federal government needs to step in.
Read full article →Leading researchers in heat exposure are coming together to reach a consensus on what we know — and don't — about the health benefits of sauna and its potential for treating and preventing disease.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Women vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) were significantly less likely to have a range of adverse outcomes during pregnancy, according to a national case-control study from Sweden. Among nearly 625,000 births from...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday it still doesn't know what caused the death of a young worker at a lab in Russia that focuses on plague and other illnesses. The U.N. health agency has cited…
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- For years, 7-year-old Israel Solis couldn't communicate with the world around him. Born with autism and nonverbal, he would bite and scratch himself in frustration when someone couldn't understand his needs. Therapy through a...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- An intraocular lens (IOL) packed with glaucoma medication showed early promise as a potential treatment for cataract and glaucoma in randomized comparison against standard glaucoma therapy. The bimatoprost drug...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Avacopan (Tavneos), the complement pathway inhibitor for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), appeared strongly effective in an Italian registry study -- a step, maybe, toward setting to rest...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- You're all going to be jealous. I spent a bunch of hours, part of my Sunday morning and early afternoon, creating my latest NIH Biographical Sketch Common Form and NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement. I told you you'd…
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- PHOENIX -- An investigational pan-amyloid binding tracer proved its mettle in detecting and quantifying cardiac amyloidosis, particularly among early, low-burden cases, in a phase III study. In the REVEAL study, the positron...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A meta-analysis favored patient navigation and patient or clinician reminders for increasing colonoscopy completion after stool-based tests for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening turned up positive. After a positive fecal immunochemical...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An accelerated course of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) hinted at the potential to treat co-existing methamphetamine use disorder and depression, early data from a small feasibility trial suggested. The protocol...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Alina Miranda was a teenager when the Marshall Fire ripped through her community in Boulder County, Colorado, in December 2021. She lost her home, her pets, and her journals. She spent weeks sleeping in a laundry room,…
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