Cataract surgery task delegation to medical assistants inconsistently permitted across US

1 hour ago | Healio

Engaging medical assistants to perform common tasks integral to cataract surgery could reduce personnel costs and optimize efficiency. In a poster presented at Real World...
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Watch: Big Medicaid changes in California leave millions of patients behind

6 hours ago | News Medical

KHN senior correspondent Angela Hart appeared on Spectrum News 1's "Los Angeles Times Today" on Nov. 29 to discuss her reporting on California's pricey and ambitious experiment...
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Unique technology uses ultrasound-responsive nanobubbles for treating osteoporosis

17 hours ago | News Medical

University of Central Florida researchers have created unique technology for treating osteoporosis that uses nanobubbles to deliver treatment to targeted areas of a person's body.
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Alzheimer's Network for Treatment and Diagnostics created to collect real-world data

19 hours ago | Healio | 2 articles

The Alzheimer's Association is among a group of professional societies and research institutions that have launched the Alzheimer's Network for Treatment and Diagnostics to...
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Alzheimer's Hype and Hope; Severe COVID and Brain Aging; Low Use of New Neuro Drugs

22 hours ago | MedPageToday | 2 articles

An editorial by The Lancet aimed to balance hype and hope about the investigational Alzheimer's drug lecanemab. The NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery was sensitive to cognitive...
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Federal court sentences former Trump foe Michael Avenatti to 14 YEARS in jail

23 hours ago | Natural News

Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who once challenged former President Donald Trump in court, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail.Senior U.S. District Judge James Selna of the U.S...
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Can Oncologists Reduce the Suicide Risk in Their Prostate Cancer Patients?

23 hours ago | MedPageToday | 2 articles

SAN DIEGO - Whether it's due to the side effects of local and systemic therapies, or the diagnosis itself, men with prostate cancer are at increased risk of mental distress and...
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Bromocriptine appears to drop BP, improve arterial stiffness in teens with type 1 diabetes

1 day ago | Healio | 3 articles

Bromocriptine, a drug previously used to treat adults with type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's disease, improved BP and central and peripheral aortic stiffness over 4 weeks in...
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Parkinson's drug improves blood pressure, aortic stiffness in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes

1 day ago | News Medical | 3 articles

Teens with Type 1 diabetes who took bromocriptine, a medication used to treat Parkinson's disease and Type 2 diabetes, had lower blood pressure and less stiff arteries after...
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VIDEO: Home OCT offers sufficient image quality, aids with management of wet AMD

1 day ago | Healio

In this Healio Video Perspective from the Retina Society meeting, Anat Loewenstein, MD, discusses an analysis of a digital health model involving Home OCT to monitor patients...
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Alzheimer's Network for Treatment and Diagnostics created to collect...

The Alzheimer's Association is among a group of professional societies and research institutions that have launched the Alzheimer's Network for Treatment and Diagnostics to... Read more ...

Can Oncologists Reduce the Suicide Risk in Their Prostate Cancer Patients?

SAN DIEGO - Whether it's due to the side effects of local and systemic therapies, or the diagnosis itself, men with prostate cancer are at increased risk of mental distress and... Read more ...

Bromocriptine appears to drop BP, improve arterial stiffness in teens with...

Bromocriptine, a drug previously used to treat adults with type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's disease, improved BP and central and peripheral aortic stiffness over 4 weeks in... Read more ...