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Read full article →Nursing homes and assisted living facilities can be fertile ground for violence between residents with dementia, including fatal assaults. Court records and inspecitions how safeguards fall short.
Read full article →“I fear that the widespread rollout of testosterone screening may lead to some surprising and unintended consequences,” writes a urologist who studies testosterone.
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Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- MONTREAL -- Geographic atrophy (GA) had a similar response to the complement inhibitor pegcetacoplan (Syfovre) whether concurrent with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) or alone, data from a retina clinical...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Middle-aged and older adults with metabolic syndrome had older-appearing brains, a large imaging study from the U.K. Biobank cohort suggested. Participants with metabolic syndrome had a significantly higher brain age gap than...
Read full article →With drug deaths plummeting, state officials are wary of halting harm reduction initiatives.
Read full article →Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce that was distributed to 27 states after federal health officials linked the lettuce from its supplier in central Mexico to the spread of an “explosive diarrhea” parasite. Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked shredded iceberg lettuce from a single...
Read full article →Wildfire smoke and unhealthy air persist and shift direction, as Trump demands explanation from Canada.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- I spent 10 minutes in complete silence in my patient's room today, my eyes scanning lines of text in the electronic medical record. I wasn't looking for a life-threatening lab value or an undiscovered malignancy. I was hunting...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- YAOUNDE, Cameroon -- Rain had turned the dirt road into thick mud, but Mabel Djoumessi kept walking with her 9-month-old son, Kenfack, strapped to her back. His malaria vaccination appointment at a clinic in central Cameroon...
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