What Happens When Patients Learn About Their Alzheimer’s Status?
Learning about a positive amyloid-PET result was associated with psychological changes among people with subjective cognitive decline, but those changes did not reach a threshold for clinical concern. In the prospective AMYPAD consortium study, people who received news about a positive amyloid scan showed small increases in distress, anxiety, or depression scores compared with peers […]
Tyler James Williams Opened Up About A Health Scare That Almost Killed Him
Tyler James Williams Opened Up About A Health Scare That Almost Killed Him
Opinion | Perverse Economies: Who Is Worth Saving?
Back when I was a medical student I learned a lesson about who was expendable. I was doing research for the liver transplant team at UCLA, one of the largest organ-transplant centers in the U.S., and one of the surgeons gave me an assignment: can you track how sick the patients are before they come […]
Clinical Challenges: Treating AML With IDH1 and IDH2 Mutations
About 20% of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) harbors a mutation in the isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) genes, IDH1 or IDH2. Within the last decade, treatment for these patients “has changed significantly” with the development of first-in-class IDH1 and IDH2 inhibitors, said Tapan Kadia, MD, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Moreover, “treatment paradigms are […]
Opinion | Treatment Is a Two-Way Street
I was reading about the relationship between the pioneering psychologist Erik Erikson and the iconic painter Norman Rockwell. Erikson, who gained fame for explicating eight crucial stages of psychosocial development across the lifespan, was Rockwell’s psychotherapist. Both men lived in the idyllic Massachusetts town of Stockbridge, where Rockwell painted one of his most recognized pieces […]
WHO ‘Very Concerned’ About Reports Of Severe COVID In China
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is “very concerned” about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero COVID” policy, warning that its lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers of vulnerable people getting infected. At a press briefing on […]
Peanuts and herbs and spices may positively impact gut microbiome
Adding a daily ounce of peanuts or about a teaspoon of herbs and spices to your diet may affect the composition of gut bacteria, an indicator of overall health, according to new research from Penn State. In two separate studies, nutritional scientists studied the effects of small changes to the average American diet and found […]
People Are Sharing Common Misconceptions About Their Mental Illness
People Are Sharing Common Misconceptions About Their Mental Illness
Med-Mastodon Gains Users Amid Uncertainties at Twitter
As uncertainties about Twitter’s survival abound following its recent change in ownership and its well-documented structural and financial issues, thousands of Med-Twitter users have migrated to a new platform. Mastodon, which describes itself as a “free, open-source decentralized social media” network, launched back in 2016 as a sort of alternative to Twitter. In recent days, […]
Opinion | ‘I’m Really Freaking Out About Hurting Someone’: What We Heard This Week
“Yeah, malpractice is a concern, but I’m really freaking out about hurting someone.” — Linda Isbell, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talking about her team’s survey that looked at perspectives of emergency clinicians on lawsuits and patient harm. “I have not replaced Dr. [Leana] Wen because I did not want to leave any […]