Students of Shuttered Nursing School Sue State Officials for Overreach
Former students of a now-shuttered for-profit nursing school in Connecticut have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that two state agencies invalidated their course credits, withheld licenses, and damaged their professional reputations. The nine former students of Stone Academy — which closed suddenly earlier this year and has been subject to state investigations ever since — […]
Testosterone for Hypogonadism Cleared So Far of Prostate Cancer Risk
Men treated with testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) for hypogonadism didn’t have an increase in adverse prostate events, the TRAVERSE trial found. Over a mean follow-up of 33 months, those who used topical 1.62% testosterone gel had a 0.19% incidence of high-grade prostate cancer (Gleason score ≥4 + 3), similar to the 0.12% among placebo-treated men […]
Sharp Uptick in Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Visits After ACA’s Passage
Healthcare visits for transgender-related diagnoses and gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) have been rising, researchers reported, suggesting it as an opportunity for HIV prevention. Within a commercial health plan database, the proportion of adults with a transgender-related diagnosis code increased by 30.8% each year from 2014 to 2021 (13.4 to 113.9 per 100,000 enrolled persons) for […]
Goodbye, Appendix. Hello, Crohn’s Disease?
ORLANDO – People who undergo appendectomy may have an increased risk for the development of Crohn’s disease (CD), but not ulcerative colitis (UC), according to a systematic review and meta-analysis. The meta-analysis showed a pooled OR of 1.57 (95% CI 1.01-2.43, P<0.00001) for CD in those who had gotten surgery of the mucosa-and-gut lymphoid tissue […]
FDA Approves New First-Line Standard of Care in Bladder Cancer
Patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer have a permanent new first-line standard of care after the FDA granted full approval to the combination of enfortumab vedotin (Padcev) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) regardless of cisplatin eligibility. The action finalized the approval process for the combination, which received accelerated approval earlier this year, at the time […]
AI study reveals individuality of tongue’s surface
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 3D images of the human tongue have revealed that the surface of our tongues are unique to each of us, new findings suggest. The results offer an unprecedented insight into the biological make-up of our tongue’s surface and how our sense of taste and touch differ from person to person. The […]
How Are Americans Using Emerging Cannabinoids?
About a quarter of Americans have used emerging cannabinoids — such as cannabidiol (CBD), cannabigerol (CBG), and cannabinol (CBN) — in the past year, according to a cross-sectional survey. Among 1,169 participants who completed the poll, 25.2% reported past-year use of these compounds, which have been cropping up after the passage of the 2018 Farm […]
Companies Market Stem Cell Treatments to Long COVID Patients
Clinics that sell stem cell and exosome treatments have turned their attention to long COVID patients, researchers found. Among 38 businesses selling such treatments for COVID-19, the majority (36) marketed those therapies for long COVID, stated Leigh Turner, PhD, of the University of California Irvine, and colleagues in Stem Cell Reports. “We didn’t think the […]
Opinion | Charting the Course: From Young Adult Leukemia Patient to Oncologist
Rosenthal is a lymphoma specialist. “Would you like to have a bone marrow biopsy today or tomorrow?” These are the only words I remember coming from the oncologist who I had just met in the emergency department (ED). I was in my second year of medical school and just 24 years old when I was […]
Battle of the Governors
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