Pali Momi Medical Center Earns National Recognition for Energy Sustainability
For more than three decades, Pali Momi Medical Center has been focused on caring for the community. Now, the medical center is receiving national recognition for its care of the environment. Pali Momi is the only medical center in Hawaii to be named as a 2025 Energy to Care Award winner by the American Society […]
At Long Last, Hard Data to Support Artificial Urinary Sphincter in Male Incontinence
LAS VEGAS — After decades of use, the artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) finally has high-level evidence of its safety and efficacy for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in men. What’s more, patients like it. More than 90% of patients had at least a 50% reduction in sanitary pad weight over 12 months; daily pad use declined […]
Opinion | A World AIDS Day Reminder: No One Should Be Left Behind
Guilamo-Ramos is a nurse and HIV/AIDS researcher. As a nurse who has for decades provided clinical care and conducted research on the challenges faced by individuals at risk for and living with HIV, I believe the steady progress our nation has made in combatting HIV/AIDS is truly remarkable. That is why, on this World AIDS […]
Nurse-to-Patient Staffing Ratios Win Some Hard-Fought Ground
For nearly 2 decades, only one state — California — governed the number of patients assigned to a hospital nurse. Recently, Oregon became the second. Advocates of nurse-to-patient ratios are hopeful other states will follow. The primary barrier? Hospitals. Hospital groups and some nurse executives say ratios are a one-size-fits-all response to a dynamic system. […]
Global Incidence of Early-Onset Cancer Has Surged Since 1990
The global incidence of early-onset cancer has increased by 79% over the last three decades, researchers reported. In 2019, new cancer diagnoses in people under 50 totaled 3.26 million compared with 1.82 million in 1990, according to Xue Li, PhD, of Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China, and colleagues. Meanwhile, 1.06 million people under […]
High-fat diets alter gut bacteria, boosting colorectal cancer risk in mice
The prevalence of colorectal cancer in people under the age of 50 has risen in recent decades. One suspected reason: the increasing rate of obesity and high-fat diets. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute and UC San Diego have discovered how high-fat diets can change gut bacteria and alter digestive molecules called bile acids that […]
The 1 Thing That Child Therapists Say Harms Kids’ Happiness The Most
Children and adolescents in the U.S. today reap the benefits of decades of medical and psychological research. We are able to diagnose and effectively treat mental health conditions to a degree that wasn’t possible only a generation ago, with a wider arsenal of pharmacological options and increasingly targeted and sophisticated non-invasive therapies. The quality of […]
FDA Relaxes Blood Donation Rules for Gay and Bisexual Men
After decades of rejecting or discouraging men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood for fear of HIV transmission, the FDA issued final guidance on Thursday relaxing donor eligibility rules. Under the new recommendations, the FDA scrapped time-based deferrals and screening questions targeting MSM and instead call for individual risk-based questions to be […]
Mysterious White Blood Cell Disorder Not Just ‘AIDS Without HIV’
Decades after its discovery, the emerging view of idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) — popularly dubbed “AIDS without HIV” — is that it may be more homogeneous than originally thought, despite patients being prone to various cancers and opportunistic infections. In 91 individuals with this disorder of the immune system, the most common opportunistic infections contracted […]
Leading Causes of Death Hit Childhood Cancer Survivors Earlier
Survivors of childhood cancer had a fourfold higher risk of mortality decades after their diagnosis, typically from the same leading causes of death afflicting the general U.S. population, a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) showed. The 40-year all-cause mortality rate was 23.3% among the more than 34,000 pediatric cancer patients who had […]