New Law Allows Physicians to Help Patients Receive Their Medical News – Good or Bad
Aug.19, 2025 A new law effective Sept. 1 will protect Texas patients from the confusion of receiving difficult-to-decipher health information in their inbox with no explanation, thanks to the efforts of Texas physicians. Instead, doctors will have time to review the patient’s test results and call them to reveal the news – good or bad – […]
Three Medical Facilities, Three Different Prices For a Typhoid Shot
After receiving a typhoid shot at his primary care doctor’s office, Jeff Blatt was caught off guard when his insurance didn’t cover it, and he was left with a bill double what other facilities charge. Blatt got the shot at Scarsdale Medical Group in Westchester, New York, back in February to prepare for a vacation […]
COVID-19 Impaired Fertility Treatments
Couples infected with the COVID-19 virus while receiving assisted reproductive technology treatment had lower quality embryo and blastocyst rates when compared to non-infected couples, a retrospective cohort study in China showed. In nearly 600 couples who underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment at a reproductive center, SARS-CoV-2–positive couples had significantly […]
Injections Go Head to Head With Surgery for Peyronie’s Disease
MIAMI — Men receiving collagenase clostridium histolyticum (CCH; Xiaflex) injections for Peyronie’s disease had similar levels of overall satisfaction to surgery, and with fewer adverse effects, but they also experienced less curvature correction, a small randomized trial found. All 40 patients in the randomized study received traction and sildenafil (Viagra), but no significant differences at […]
Nearly 1 in 4 Young Adults Treated for Mental Health in 2021
The percentage of young U.S. adults receiving mental health treatment increased by nearly 5% from 2019 to 2021, according to National Health Interview Survey data. Overall, the proportion of adults receiving mental health treatment — defined as receiving counseling, therapy, taking a medication, or any combination of the three — increased from 19.2% in 2019 […]
Less Fluid Not Better for Septic Shock
A more restrictive protocol for IV fluids didn’t reduce mortality for adults in the ICU receiving treatment for septic shock, the CLASSIC trial showed. Restricting IV crystalloid fluids to small boluses only for severe hypoperfusion, to replace documented fluid losses, or for dehydration and electrolyte deficiency for patients who couldn’t take fluids enterally yielded a […]
Third Person ‘Cured’ of HIV via Transplant
A U.S. woman appears to be free of her HIV infection after receiving closely matched blood from a relative and HIV-resistant umbilical cord blood, researchers reported. Following the general game plan of two European men who required bone marrow transplantation for cancer and received their transplant from donors with rare HIV-resistant blood, the middle-age woman […]
Dietary fiber improves outcomes for melanoma patients on immunotherapy
Melanoma patients receiving therapy that makes it easier for their immune system to kill cancer cells respond to treatment better when their diet is rich in fiber, according to a large, international research collaboration that includes the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy. Published today in Science, the study led by the University of Texas […]
Brief 5:2 diet advice is as effective as traditional GP advice, but people like it better, according to new study
A clinical trial has found people prefer receiving information on the 5:2 diet than standard GP weight management advice despite both interventions achieving similar modest weight loss results. The trial, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and led by Queen Mary University of London, is the first randomised evaluation of the 5:2 diet, a […]
Some Liver Transplant Patients Got Hepatitis B From Donors
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) was discovered in patients receiving liver transplants, despite donors testing negative for the virus, CDC researchers found. From 2014 to 2019, the agency received reports of 20 patients who contracted HBV after liver transplants from donors who had no evidence of prior HBV infection, according to Danae Bixler, MD, and colleagues […]