Incoming AAFP President Optimistic About Family Medicine's Future Yes, there are challenges, but they can be overcome, says Steven Furr, MD Oct 18, 2023
Death After IV Vitamins; 4-Day Work Week Healthier; Blast at Gaza Hospital Kills 500 Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 番茄社区app staff Oct 18, 2023
Antibody Slows Beta-Cell Loss Early in Type 1 Diabetes PROTECT trial may expand the biologic's use into a larger pool of recently diagnosed patients Oct 18, 2023
Virtual Obesity Treatment Program Led to Substantial Weight Loss in Real-World Study At 12 months, there was an average weight loss of 16.2%, with results sustained up to 24 months Oct 17, 2023
Certain Factors Predict Weight Regain After Big Losses But even "regainers" still kept off most of the weight Oct 17, 2023
Regaining Weight After Bariatric Surgery Did Not Lead to Excess Mortality Weight regainers had a similar incidence of mortality as weight-loss maintainers Oct 17, 2023
Semaglutide's Weight-Loss Benefit Also Seen in Patients on Antidepressants Those on antidepressants lost an average 11% to 19% of body weight across the four STEP trials Oct 16, 2023
Behavioral Health Concerns Common for Low-Income Kids Primary care findings suggest need for focus on prevention Oct 16, 2023
Tirzepatide Has Huge Impact on Weight, Even After Loss From Lifestyle Change Trial participants lost over a fifth of their body weight atop diet, exercise-induced losses Oct 16, 2023
I Lost My Baby Brother to RSV, Others Don't Have To Two new tools can prevent tens of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths Oct 16, 2023
Hold Off a Bit Before Operating on Broken Hips, Study Suggests Older patients on anticoagulants benefit from modest delay Oct 16, 2023
Mixed Signals for Paxlovid and Long COVID Risk in CDC Study Antiviral protected older at-risk patients, but appeared to increase risk in teens Oct 16, 2023
Mental Health Warning Signs in Latinx Kids Tied to Cardiometabolic Risks Signs of depression, anxiety in middle school linked with troubles by high school Oct 16, 2023
RSV Vaccine Maintains Efficacy Across Two Seasons in Seniors And second dose after 1 year appeared to add no extra protection Oct 15, 2023
Breastfeeding Amps Up Maternal Flu Vax Protection for Infants Association strongest with exclusive breastfeeding Oct 14, 2023
Diet and Liver Health; Gut Microbiome and Cardiometabolic Disease Also in TTHealthWatch: COVID hospitalization data Oct 14, 2023 podcast
Kids' Use of Cannabis and Tobacco Rose From 2021 to 2022 CDC survey data revealed increases in use of cannabis, tobacco, and both together Oct 13, 2023
U.S. Healthcare System Creates Barriers to Vaccine Access, Expert Says Clinics are struggling to purchase pediatric COVID vaccines and the monoclonal antibody for RSV Oct 13, 2023 video
CDC: Arthritis Is Massive Public Health Problem One in five adults, nearly half of seniors diagnosed with joint diseases Oct 13, 2023
Healthcare's North Star Should Be Better Health We must commit to primary care, public health, and prevention Oct 13, 2023
New Lung Cancer Cases Are Higher in Younger Women vs Men And the higher incidence rates now extend to women ages 50 to 54 as well Oct 12, 2023
Intranasal COVID Vaccine Generates Strong Immune Response Plus: Detecting viruses in wastewater and the maternal RSV vaccine for protecting infants Oct 12, 2023
Shiitake Mushrooms Caused This Dramatic Rash Patient's back looked as though it had been flogged: "Once you see it, you don't forget it" Oct 11, 2023
Acupuncture Effective for Some ED Patients With Intractable Pain Average pain score dropped from 7.96 to 3.88 after treatment, study finds Oct 11, 2023
ED Clinicians Tackle Patients' Food Insecurity, Homelessness Connecting patients to resources that work best for them is critical, researchers say Oct 11, 2023
Opposing Gun Ownership by Domestic Abusers Is My Lane Commit to speaking out during Domestic Violence Awareness Month Oct 11, 2023
Heat-Related Illness Among Farmworkers: How Nurses Can Help Vulnerable population is "bearing the brunt of climate change," researcher says Oct 11, 2023
Sexual and Gender Minoritized Adults Have Higher Risks for Severe Asthma Asthma attacks that required steroids were more likely among these patients vs straight patients Oct 11, 2023
How a Multi-Cancer Screening Test Would Play Out in the Clinic True positives identified with Grail's assay typically confirmed in under 2 months Oct 10, 2023
Concept of 'Asthma-COPD Overlap' Still Alive Despite Detractors Is it a moot point under the treatable traits paradigm? Oct 10, 2023
Catching COVID 5 Times; Stroke Deaths Expected to Surge; Calif. Bans Red Dye No. 3 Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 番茄社区app staff Oct 10, 2023
Stethoscope Hygiene: The Next Frontier in Infection Control? Prevention is also essential for antimicrobial stewardship Oct 10, 2023
Surprising Link Between Weight Gain and RA Activity Hint: it's not the worsening you probably expected Oct 09, 2023
Time to Recognize Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome, AHA Says Pooled cohort equations will make way for new CKM risk calculator Oct 09, 2023
Need to Answer a Routine Question From a Patient? AI Might Come to Your Rescue Artificial intelligence could lighten our load, if we can figure out how to use it wisely Oct 09, 2023
Demand for Anti-VEGF Injections for Retinal Diseases Expected to Surge Danish researchers forecast 50% growth in next 5 years, driven by aging population Oct 09, 2023
'Long Cold' Common Too; Walgreens Pharmacy Walkout; $2,000 Ivermectin Settlements Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 番茄社区app staff Oct 09, 2023
Feds Rein in Predictive Software That Limits Care for Medicare Advantage Patients A computer program isn't always a crystal ball for care Oct 08, 2023
