CASES OF DEADLY FUNGUS TRIPLED IN PAST FEW YEARS, CDC SAYS
Cases of Candida auris have tripled from 2019 to 2021, according to national surveillance data. After first being detected in the U.S....
INVESTIGATIONAL ALS DRUG MAY HAVE CLINICAL BENEFIT, FDA STAFF SAYS
Tofersen, an investigational antisense drug developed to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with a mutation in the SOD1...
IMPROVED OS WITH HYPERFRACTIONATED RT IN RECURRENT NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA
Compared with standard fractionation, hyperfractionated intensity-modulated radiotherapy could significantly increase overall survival...
SMALL GAINS IN CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS TRACK WITH IMPROVED LONGEVITY
As previously suspected, changes in cardiorespiratory fitness were associated with reciprocal changes in mortality risk independent...
NO BENEFIT TO CONVENTIONAL ULTRAFILTRATION DURING CARDIAC SURGERY
Using conventional ultrafiltration during cardiac surgery did not appear to reduce the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications,...
RAPID IMPROVEMENT IN ATOPIC DERMATITIS WITH TOPICAL PDE4 INHIBITOR
NEW ORLEANS - A novel lower-concentration topical formulation of the PDE4 inhibitor roflumilast produced rapid improvement in mild...
GPT-4 IS HERE. HOW CAN DOCTORS USE GENERATIVE AI NOW?
In the past 3 months, ChatGPT has risen from its obscure testing grounds at OpenAI's headquarters in San Francisco to become the fastest-growing...
NEW APPROACHES IN THE BLADDER-SPARING PARADIGM
In this exclusive roundtable video from MedPage Today, three expert leaders in the field of bladder cancer discuss emerging data presented...
DOCS' LIKING FOR KNEE INJECTION TIED TO INDUSTRY PAYMENTS
Physicians accepting payments from drug and device companies administered significantly more hyaluronic acid injections to Medicare...
PRIMARY CARE WAS THE LOSER IN OUR RESIDENTS' POPULARITY CONTEST
Last week, I got the strangest email at work. (Actually, I get a LOT of strange emails at work, but that's a column for another day.) A...
WHY ARE EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESIDENTS DISAPPEARING?
The number of unfilled emergency medicine residency positions in this year's initial Match hit a record: 555. In 2022, there were 219...
POST-OP DELIRIUM LINKED TO ACCELERATED COGNITIVE DECLINE
Postoperative delirium in older adults was associated with 40% faster cognitive decline, data from a prospective cohort study showed. Among...
CASES OF BALD SPOTS AFTER REGULAR USE OF DETANGLING HAIRBRUSHES
A report of three cases of trichomalacia in young women
PULSE OXIMETERS CONFIRMED TO BE BIASED FOR BLACK KIDS
Tested against a gold standard, the widely accessible pulse oximetry technique turned out to overestimate arterial oxygen saturation...
RESPONSE RATES IN HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA CONTINUE TO CLIMB WITH NEW THERAPIES
NEW ORLEANS - A trio of novel therapies produced clinically significant improvements in 40% to 70% of patients with moderate to severe...
OLD DIABETES DRUG MAY HELP STAVE OFF OSTEOARTHRITIS
Metformin may help cut the risk of osteoarthritis in those with type 2 diabetes, researchers reported. In a retrospective cohort study...
LONG COVID EASING? WYOMING BANS ABORTION PILLS; HEP A OUTBREAK TIED TO STRAWBERRIES
Note that some links may require subscriptions. A Washington Post analysis suggests long COVID symptoms have become less common since...
ANOTHER WIN FOR A JAK INHIBITOR IN ALOPECIA AREATA
NEW ORLEANS - Patients with severe alopecia areata had dramatic hair regrowth at 6 months with an investigational Janus kinase inhibitor,...
'IT IS A HORRIFYING PROSPECT': WHAT WE HEARD THIS WEEK
"It is a horrifying prospect that many more individuals could die because they will be forced to remain pregnant against their will."...
BIOLOGIC SWITCH REVS UP RESPONSE IN PLAQUE PSORIASIS
NEW ORLEANS - Plaque psoriasis that responded inadequately to an interleukin -17 inhibitor often had deep and durable responses after...
Labor Minister's swipe at Liberal leader
There were tense scenes in question time when Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus accused Peter Dutton of 'shameful' silence for not condemning neo-Nazis who attended a protest in... Read more ...
Bankrupt island thrown a $4.5 billion lifeline
A mob took residence in the presidential palace last year and forced the leader to flee. Since then, Sri Lanka has been trying to pull itself together. Read more ...
Climate armageddon: No time to waste in the battle to save our planet
The continued use of fossil fuels will cause us to burn in a hell of our own making. Read more ...
Mutual Trading Co., Inc Issues Allergy Alert for Undeclared Soy in Sauces
Mutual Trading Co., Inc. of El Monte, CA is recalling 60 fl oz of Kagome Worcester Sauce, 10 fl oz of Kagome Chuno sauce, and 8g of Kagome Take out Tonkatsu Sauce because the... Read more ...
Costings cast doubt on Labor's cashless gambling trial
The Parliamentary Budget Office says Labor's plan to trial 500 cashless gaming machines in NSW would make no difference to the budget bottom line. Read more ...
ABC staff cancel strike after winning pay rise, but some rankled by ‘disrespect'
One of the ABC's media unions has cancelled strike action, but that won't stop hundreds from walking off the job for two hours on Wednesday. Read more ...
Indigenous students to reach for the stars with NASA
The United States and Australian space agencies will give five Indigenous Australian university students the opportunity to complete an internship at NASA. Read more ...
When a million-dollar discount isn't enough: Glamorous apartment seeks new buyer
Sanchia Brahimi's apartment in Sydney's landmark Finger Wharf offered a test of how high-end property values are tracking. It hasn't gone well. Read more ...
Turbulence prompts Wall Street banks to trim hawkish Fed bets
Bets on a US Federal Reserve 50 basis point rate rise at the start of the month have been dramatically altered by the collapse of two mid-sized US banks and troubles at Credit... Read more ...
Ignoring experts, China's sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives
Health experts proposed detailed plans for a gradual end to anti-virus controls, but the Chinese government rebuffed them and dropped restrictions in December with no... Read more ...