More Than 1 Million People Dropped From Medicaid As States Start Post-Pandemic Purge
More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Most got dropped for not filling out paperwork. Though the eligibility review is required by the federal government, President’s Joe Biden’s administration isn’t […]
If You Sleep On Your Right Side, We Have News For You
Aja Koska via Getty Images Sleeping on one side may have better benefits than the other. Most of us have a side we prefer to sleep on. Yes, we move around in our sleep but there’s usually that one side that we continuously fall back on. And if lying on your right side is your […]
Cystic Renal Masses Often Harbor High-Grade Disease
Almost a fourth of renal cysts had pathologically high-grade disease, which did not have a correlation with growth rate or increase the risk with active surveillance (AS), according to a large retrospective review. Overall, 23% of 387 radiographically confirmed cystic lesions exhibited high-grade pathology. Nonetheless, the potentially more aggressive subset did not affect overall survival, […]
Junk food may impair our deep sleep
In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University have investigated how junk food affects sleep. Healthy participants consumed an unhealthier as well as a healthier diet in a randomised order. After the unhealthier diet, the quality of the participants’ deep sleep had deteriorated, compared with those who had followed the healthier diet. The results have […]
No Access to Routine Healthcare Biggest Barrier to HPV Vaccination
BALTIMORE — People with access to routine healthcare were more likely to have received human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination compared with those who did not have this access, a retrospective analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data suggested. Among participants ages 12 to 26, those with health insurance and a routine healthcare provider had […]
Missing Doc’s Abandoned Car Found; Weak Legs and Heart Failure; HIV on the Decline
Note that some links may require subscriptions. Police have discovered the abandoned car of John Forsyth, MD, a Missouri family medicine physician who was reported missing after failing to show up to work earlier this week. (Newsweek) The FDA approved intravenous sulbactam-durlobactam (Xacduro) for adults with hospital-acquired or ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by certain isolates of […]
This Leading Cause Of Death For New Moms May Surprise You
You may have heard about the distressing rise in maternal mortality in the U.S., which disproportionately affects Black women. In a study of 11 high-income countries, the U.S. had the highest rate of maternal mortality. “Pregnancy-related deaths are defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 1 year of the end of […]
Ocaliva for NASH Gets Thumbs Down From FDA Advisors
A panel of FDA’s outside experts said obeticholic acid (Ocaliva) does not have a favorable risk-benefit profile for treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with pre-cirrhotic liver fibrosis, and recommended against accelerated approval of the drug. On Friday, the Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee voted 12-2 (with two abstentions) that the improvements in liver scarring seen in the […]
Childhood Cancer Survivors Have Increased Rates of Late, Major Surgeries
Childhood cancer survivors have increased rates of undergoing late, major surgical procedures 5 or more years after diagnosis, according to data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Among more than 25,000 survivors diagnosed with cancer from 1970 to 1999 when they were under age 21, the likelihood of having subsequent major surgery was 80% higher […]
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 […]