Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Two of the three late-breaking abstract sessions coming up this week at the Infectious Disease Week (IDWeek) 2021 Annual Meeting are filled with the most recent evidence on COVID-19 prevention and treatment. Adarsh Bhimraj, MD, a vice chair of the conference, told Medscape Medical News attendees […]
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Millions of women are unaware about the different breast cancer treatments available – with almost a quarter believing that a mastectomy or double mastectomy is an inevitable result of diagnosis, according to a study. Research among 2,000 UK women found that despite leaps forward in innovation over the past few decades, 58 percent feel "in the dark" about different breast […]
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Dr Hilary Jones discusses bowel cancer awareness acronym We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Cancer can’t always be prevented, but scientists believe around half of all […]
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Chronic inflammation in the gut, internationally known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), is a growing problem in the world, especially in developing countries. The Netherlands already has about 90,000 IBD patients. At the European level, there are between the 2.5 to 3 million people with IBD. A more pleasant procedure and at a lower cost Although the inflammations are easy […]
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Dentist reveals how much toothpaste you should use We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info No matter how well you brush your teeth or how often you […]
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As the baby boomer generation moves into retirement age, it is expected that by the year 2034, older adults (ages 65 and up) will outnumber children in the United States for the first time in history. As the population ages, demand for health care will increase, and rising rates of alcohol use in older adults may create additional challenges to […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe and exceeded those observed around the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in central and Eastern European countries, according to research published [27 September], led by scientists at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. The research team assembled an unprecedented dataset on mortality from 29 […]
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If your current training routine has run a little stagnant, allow us to spice it up for you with a three-round, high-intensity workout straight from an elite CrossFit athlete. Josh Bridges, a retired US Navy SEAL and a six-time CrossFit Games athlete, recently shared one of his go-to sessions with Morning Chalk Up. Coming straight from Bridge’s ‘Pay Him 30 […]
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Dialysis centers, the gatekeepers of kidney transplantation waitlisting, produce more data and inspire more policies today than ever before. However, existing Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) quality metrics for these centers have not included longitudinal metrics, lexapro and tingling such as time to transplantation waitlisting, which incentivize coordinating care across the spectrum of dialysis centers, nephrologists, hospitals, and transplant centers. A […]
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Federal efforts to improve the quality, safety, and efficacy of over-the-counter sunscreens took a step forward today with the release of two orders aimed at updating regulatory requirements for most sunscreen products in the United States. “We see it as a key public health priority and our regulatory obligation to make sure that marketed sunscreen products offer protection from the […]
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