Sophia Loren Hospitalized With Hip, Femur Fractures After Serious Fall
LOADINGERROR LOADING Sophia Loren was hospitalized after sustaining serious injuries in a fall at her home in Geneva over the weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Loren slipped in the bathroom, fracturing her femur and hips in several places so severely that she required emergency surgery. Advertisement Sources close to the Italian acting legend, who […]
Could Cetuximab Maintenance Play a Role in RAS Wild-Type Metastatic CRC?
Maintenance therapy with cetuximab (Erbitux) after FOLFIRI (leucovorin, fluorouracil, and irinotecan) plus cetuximab induction therapy led to better outcomes for patients with RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) in a phase II randomized trial, yet it failed to reach the study’s prespecified threshold for success. At 6 months after randomization, more patients assigned to maintenance […]
Rapper Desiigner To Register As Sex Offender After Pleading Guilty To Masturbating On Plane
Rapper Desiigner has been ordered to register as a sex offender after pleading guilty Thursday to a count of misdemeanor indecent exposure, multiple outlets have reported. The 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Sidney Royel Selby III, was reportedly questioned by police but not charged after exposing himself on an April 17 flight from Tokyo […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Third Open Heart Surgery Turned Into A Total ‘Disaster’
LOADINGERROR LOADING Arnold Schwarzenegger is sharing what he learned after a grueling recovery from open-heart surgery that almost killed him four years ago. While Schwarzenegger has been a fitness fan all his life, the 76-year-old bodybuilder-turned-actor has also had to deal with health issues across the years, including a botched 2019 procedure done before shooting […]
Post-COVID Cognitive Deficits Linked With Clotting Proteins
Two distinct blood biomarker profiles predicted cognitive deficits 6 and 12 months after COVID-19, prospective U.K. data showed. Both biomarker profiles featured proteins involved in coagulation, reported Maxime Taquet, PhD, of the University of Oxford in England, and co-authors in Nature Medicine. Among 1,800 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, […]
Teen HPV Vaccine Rates Stall for First Time in a Decade
After rising steadily since 2013, new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations in teens stalled for the first time in 10 years, a CDC report showed. The proportion of 13- to 17-year-olds who received at least one dose of HPV vaccine in 2022 was essentially identical to 2021 (76.0% vs 76.9%, respectively), including when it came to […]
Deadly Milkshakes; Masks Back at College Campus; Task Force Updates PrEP Guidance
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Three people died after drinking milkshakes contaminated with listeria at a Frugal’s burger restaurant in Tacoma, Washington. (NBC News) Of course first-year medical residents who started training before the COVID-19 pandemic had lower rates of PTSD symptoms compared with those who started their training during the […]
Long COVID Symptoms May Emerge Months After Infection
Long COVID symptoms may emerge months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, data from the prospective multicenter INSPIRE study suggested. Symptom prevalence decreased over 1 year among long COVID patients, but persisted or emerged at different time points in some cases, reported Sharon Saydah, PhD, of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and co-authors in […]
Study Questions Relationship Between Hospital Competition and Surgical Quality
Outcomes after high-risk elective surgery did not have a clear relationship with a hospital’s local competitive landscape, a study using nationally representative Medicare data suggested. Hospitals in the highest-competition U.S. markets had mixed postsurgical outcomes compared with those in the lowest-competition markets: risk-adjusted 30-day mortality was lower for pancreatectomy (OR 0.93, 95% CI 0.91-0.95), rectal […]
Family Of Henrietta Lacks Settles With Biotech Company Accused Of Profiting From Her Cells
BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in 2021, accusing its leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system. Tissue taken […]