Emergencies happen anywhere, anytime, and sometimes medical professionals find themselves in situations where they are the only ones who can help. Is There a Doctor in the House? is a Medscape series telling these stories. I was running my 25th New York City Marathon. It was 2018, and I almost pulled out of running that year. I wasn’t myself, […]

COVID patients exhale high levels of virus the first eight days Many illnesses overlap in their symptoms, including the common cold, flu and Covid, so how can you tell the difference between them? Deputy Superintendent Pharmacist George Sandhu, at Well Pharmacy, delved into the symptom of fatigue. “Fatigue can be caused by lots of things,” he said. “And it’s often […]

Reviewed A research team led by Cleveland Clinic and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) has developed a new method for mapping how the parts of the brain "speak" to each other, critical to understanding behavior changes in patients with neurological disease. Diseases like Alzheimer's disease change how patients communicate and act, affecting their relationships and well-being. Cleveland Clinic's Hod […]

Reviewed Republicans in Congress are "trying to wipe out federal funding to end the HIV epidemic." President Joe Biden on Oct. 14, 2023, in remarks at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner. Are Republicans threatening to stop spending federal money to end one of the world's most pressing public health epidemics? That's what President Joe Biden said during a […]

Racial and educational inequities could be influencing factors in 89% of mother-to-child syphilis transmission across Brazil, according to new research published in The Lancet Global Health. The observational study, led by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), analyzed over 15 million birth records across Brazil, including over 144,000 recorded cases of maternal syphilis and over […]

“It doesn’t matter if they kill me, but it’s better to die healthy,” said 48-year-old Maksym, as he told his story about how he overcame hepatitis C virus (HCV) while living in an area of east Ukraine that’s been under regular Russian bombardment. Keeping infectious diseases under control remains a priority for the millions of war-displaced people in Ukraine. But […]

TOPLINE: Starting treatment with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) via telehealth is associated with longer retention in treatment compared with starting treatment in-person, new research suggests. METHODOLOGY: Researchers analyzed Medicaid claims data from November 2019 through the end of 2020 in Kentucky and Ohio to investigate the impact of a policy change implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic that allowed […]

Patients with previous bariatric surgery who undergo body contouring (BC) regain more weight at long-term follow-up, compared to BC patients who did not have bariatric surgery, reports a study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. “While most patients regain some weight after BC surgery, those who have undergone bariatric surgery gain slightly more weight at long-term follow-up,” comments lead author Joshua […]

Reviewed Researchers from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine have identified the role of iron in ocular toxoplasmosis (OT), a form of toxoplasmosis that causes blindness. They found reduced iron concentration in the clear gel part of the eye of human patients and iron accumulation in the retina of mice. Treatment of mice with a compound that decreases iron was […]

How Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’ can help treat diabetes Scientists have engineered cells that release the hormone insulin in response to music — the hope is that these could one day be implanted into diabetes patients to help them avoid regular injections needed to control their condition. In tests on mice, in response to the song We Will Rock […]