Living near pubs, bars and fast-food restaurants could be bad for heart health
Living close to pubs, bars and fast-food restaurats may lead to a higher risk of heart failure, according to new research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal. These kinds of ready-to-eat food environments typically provide unhealthy foods and drinks, and have been linked to cardiovascular diseases, said study senior author […]
Use These Antibiotics for Close Contacts of Invasive Meningococcal Disease, CDC Says
Rifampin, ceftriaxone, or azithromycin are recommended as first-line alternatives to ciprofloxacin prophylaxis for close contacts of people with meningococcal disease in areas where the disease is highly resistant to ciprofloxacin, according to new guidance from the CDC. Health departments should consider using other antibiotics for prophylaxis when, over the course of the past 12 months, […]
Watch Out for Eye Injuries From Champagne Corks, Experts Warn
Keep an eye on those champagne corks this holiday season — but not too close an eye, researchers warned. Eye injuries from popping open bottles of sparkling wine “are an often overlooked and substantial threat to ocular health,” Ethan Waisberg, MD, of the University of Cambridge in England, and colleagues wrote in The BMJ‘s traditional […]
What To Do If You Feel Traumatized By The Latest Mass Shooting
Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A view of the street while police officers close the road as they patrol around the street during inspection after a gunman’s multiple shootings in Maine on October 26, 2023. At least 22 people have been reportedly killed and as many as 60 wounded after a gunman went on a […]
Less Velopharyngeal Insufficiency at Age 5 With Earlier Cleft Palate Surgery
Fewer infants with isolated cleft palate who had primary surgery to close it at age 6 months had insufficient closure between their velum and pharyngeal walls later in childhood than infants who had surgery at 12 months, the TOPS clinical trial found. Among 558 infants in Europe and South America, 8.9% in the 6-month surgery […]
Opinion | Fostering a New and Diverse Generation of Clinicians
As a medical student, I never saw myself as a future CEO or anything close. I was often the only Black person in the room in classes and rotations. After I became an attending, I spent a great deal of time and mental energy fitting in. Speaking up and having opinions were luxuries I couldn’t […]
A New Congress Will Face Pressing Healthcare Issues, Regardless of Who Is in Control
WASHINGTON — With some midterm election races too close to call and at least one Senate race headed for a December runoff, it remained unclear on Wednesday which political party would take control of the House or the Senate in 2023. However, observers said that some predictions could still be made about Congress’s potential health […]
What Doctors Need to Know About Monkeypox
Researchers are keeping a close eye on what appears to be a rapidly developing global outbreak of monkeypox virus. This isn’t like previous encounters with the virus. The widespread nature of the outbreak and evidence of frequent human-to-human transmission has researchers questioning whether the virus has changed to become more transmissible. While it will take […]
ALS Drug Needs More Evidence, FDA Advisors Say
In a close call, an FDA advisory committee said data from a single trial for AMX0035, an investigational agent being studied to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), did not support a conclusion that the drug was effective. The 6-4 vote of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee was based on findings from […]
Opinion | ‘The Tanks Are Getting Close’: What We Heard This Week
“People started calling and said, ‘The tanks are getting close.’” — Vitaliy Gyrin, MD, director of the Adonis-IVF maternity network in Ukraine, discussing the lead up to the moment a Russian missile struck the maternity clinic in Busova hospital near Kyiv. “We realize that we need to be brave and stay ’til the end, because […]