Among U.S. adults with cigarette use and all subgroups aged 26 years and older, there were significant reductions in nicotine dependence prevalence from 2006 to 2019, according to a study published online June 23 in JAMA Network Open. Beth Han, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., from the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues examined whether and how nicotine […]

When the doctor told me I had chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) – and it was incurable – I went into a state of shock. I was just 29 years old. It didn’t make sense, I was young and healthy. How was it that I had cancer? The diagnosis turned my whole life upside down. I went from being independent, enjoying […]

Albumedix Ltd., a recognized global leader in Recombinant Human Albumin (rHA), specializing in the enablement of advanced therapies and biopharmaceuticals, today announces the expansion of its existing collaboration with Valneva SE, a specialty vaccine company focused on prevention of infectious diseases with significant unmet medical need. Image Credit: Albumedix Ltd. This announcement comes on the back of the recent approval of Valneva´s inactivated COVID-19 […]

Increasing numbers of doctors are opting to take voluntary early retirement, rather than waiting to claim their pension at retirement age, official figures show. Figures provided to The BMJ by the NHS Business Services Authority under a freedom of information request show that the number of GPs and hospital doctors in England and Wales opting for voluntary early retirement has […]

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In June, the American Medical Association announced a new policy that encourages physicians not to focus solely on body mass index, or BMI, as a determinant of weight and health. As a ratio of an individual's weight and height, BMI can provide an easy and inexpensive but often misleading measure of someone's overall health. While this new policy is not […]

An international team of researchers has developed a new method to deliver drugs into the inner ear. The discovery was made possible by harnessing the natural flow of fluids in the brain and employing a little understood backdoor into the cochlea. When combined to deliver a gene therapy that repairs inner ear hair cells, the researchers were able to restore […]

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A study of more than 22,000 people with multiple sclerosis has discovered the first genetic variant associated with faster disease progression, which can rob patients of their mobility and independence over time. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the result of the immune system mistakenly attacking the brain and the spinal cord, resulting in symptom flares known as relapses as well as […]

Getting kids to agree on something is like pulling teeth — except more painful. If you’ve ever gone to multiple drive-thrus to pick up different fast food orders for your kids because that was easier than getting them to just pick one place already, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. Ryan Reynolds does too. He revealed the one […]