ACOG PAC Donated Over $1M to Anti-Abortion Legislators
Anti-abortion politicians have received more than $1 million in funding from the political action committee (PAC) of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), researchers found. The premier professional organization for ob/gyns in the U.S with more than 60,000 members, ACOG runs Ob-GynPAC, which gave over $3.3 million to federal legislators according to publicly […]
Doctors More Neurotic, Less Open Than Patients, Surveys Find
Doctors may be more neurotic than both patients and the general population, according to two nationally representative Australian surveys. When it comes to the “Big Five” personality traits, doctors were also significantly more agreeable, conscientious, and extroverted than both the general population and patients, according to Mehdi Ammi, PhD, health economist of Carleton University, in […]
Nonimmunosuppressive Therapy Bests ARB for Cutting Proteinuira in IgA Nephropathy
AUSTIN, Texas — Once-daily sparsentan (Filspari) was better at reducing proteinuria than standard treatment in IgA nephropathy, according to a prespecified interim analysis of the PROTECT trial. By week 36 of treatment in the phase III study, patients on sparsentan saw a 49.8% reduction from baseline in urine protein-creatinine (UP/C) ratio compared with only a […]
Taxane, Anthracycline Combo Most Effective in Reducing Breast Cancer Recurrence
Combining anthracycline and taxane for early-stage operable breast cancer was more effective than either anthracycline or taxane chemotherapy alone in reducing breast cancer recurrence and death, according to a meta-analysis. Moreover, regimens with higher cumulative doses of anthracycline plus taxane were associated with the greatest benefit, according to a report from Jeremy Braybrooke, BM, PhD, […]
Raincoats and Undies: Are Your Clothes Dripping in ‘Forever Chemicals’?
There could be more than just fashion risks involved when buying a pair of leggings or a raincoat. Just how much risk is still not clear, but toxic chemicals have been found in hundreds of consumer products and clothing bought off the racks nationwide. Thousands of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, exist since the […]
Dementia Risk May Rise as Air Quality Worsens
Exposure to particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5) was associated with increased risk of dementia, a meta-analysis suggested. Across 14 studies that assessed PM2.5, the overall risk of dementia rose by 4% (HR 1.04, 95% CI 0.99-1.09) for every 2 μg/m3 increase in average annual PM2.5 concentration, according to Marc Weisskopf, PhD, […]
States Try to Obscure Execution Details as Drugmakers Hinder Lethal Injection
In 2011, Jeffrey Motts was executed in South Carolina. More than a decade later, the state hasn’t carried out another execution because officials have struggled to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injection. Now, to resume executions, lawmakers are debating a bill that would further shroud the state’s lethal injection protocols from public scrutiny by […]
6 Personality Traits That May Secretly Be ADHD
urbazon via Getty Images ADHD can happen in adults — and it might present differently than you think. An estimated 4% of adults in the United States — or 8 million people — are formally diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, aka ADHD, in any given year. “There is a common belief that ADHD only impacts children, […]
Cardiac Arrest Growing More Common in the Delivery Room?
Cardiac arrest during labor and delivery appeared more common than previously seen — particularly for older, Black, and low-income pregnant patients — but with better survival rates, according to a national study. Among women admitted for delivery in the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2017 to 2019, cardiac arrest occurred in about one in 9,000 […]
Opinion | Emergency Doctors Are Ill Prepared to Handle Psychiatric Emergencies
More than four decades ago, an article appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry defining the subspecialty of emergency psychiatry (EP). Since those early days, despite some research and consolidation into a new association complementing emergency medicine (EM), the impact on meaningful access to, integration with, and quality of care for psychiatric emergencies has been […]