Corn Tortillas vs. Flour Tortillas: Which Option Is Healthier?
Petra Olteanu / 500px via Getty Images Are there any nutritional benefits to flour tortillas? As it turns out, yes. Walking the aisles of the grocery store can seem like one internal debate after another — especially if your goal is to fill your cart with the healthiest options possible. Oat milk or soy? Peanut […]
Opinion | ‘Tip of a Billion-Dollar Claims Iceberg’: What We Heard This Week
“This is just the tip of a billion-dollar claims iceberg as there are hundreds of U.S. clinics that have fraudulently billed Medicare for these birth tissue products to treat pain.” — Chris Centeno, MD, who manages a network of interventional orthopedic clinics, on birth-tissue product companies promoting their products for unapproved indications. “Doctors aren’t given […]
CDC Reports Deaths After Medical Tourism in the Dominican Republic
There were 93 deaths among U.S. residents who traveled to the Dominican Republic (D.R.) for cosmetic surgery from 2009 through 2022, according to findings in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). While there were a mean of 4.1 deaths after cosmetic surgery from 2009 through 2018, that number rose of 13 during 2019-2020, with a […]
4 Surprising Signs You Have Acid Reflux
10’000 Hours via Getty Images Throat burn and gas are common issues, but there are some other little-known signs of acid reflux. If you’ve experienced a sour taste in your mouth, lots of gas, heartburn or feeling like you just threw up a little in your mouth, you may have attributed it to acid reflux […]
Reliable research and evidence-based recommendations scarce for women who exercise according to menstrual cycle
There is no shortage of advice for women on what to eat, how to train, or what supplements to take during their menstrual cycles, but a new review by an international team of scientists has found little evidence to support such recommendations. In fact, they found sparse research on women and exercise at all, and […]
High-Sensitivity Troponin Test May Overestimate Risk in PE
For patients with hemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism (PE), there was no prognostic value found for the mild elevations in cardiac troponin captured only on high-sensitivity assays at the emergency room, based on an exploratory analysis of the PROTECT cohort study. Whereas a finding of conventional cardiac troponin I (cTnI) elevation was associated with a complicated […]
High-Sensitivity Troponin Test May Overestimate Risk in PE
For patients with hemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism (PE), there was no prognostic value found for the mild elevations in cardiac troponin captured only on high-sensitivity assays at the emergency room, based on an exploratory analysis of the PROTECT cohort study. Whereas a finding of conventional cardiac troponin I (cTnI) elevation was associated with a complicated […]
Clinical Challenges: Sequencing in Metastatic, HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
In the last few years there has been tremendous progress in the treatment of metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. “We are getting a lot of therapeutic options coming into this space,” said Shridar Ganesan, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. “Trastuzumab [Herceptin] was the first, but we now have a […]
Clinical Challenges: Determining When to Stop MS Therapy as Patients Age
Stopping multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment as patients age can be a fraught decision, but there are some signposts to help guide the way. This neurological disease of inflammatory damage to the brain most commonly starts in the second or third decade of life, and then by the fifth decade patients see declines in the frequency […]
This Product Claims To Ease Period Pain. Here’s What Doctors Think.
Charday Penn via Getty Images Experts say there are a few considerations you should make before trusting any new period pain treatment. If you’re one of the estimated 80% of women who experience painful periods every month, a condition known as dysmenorrhea, there’s a good chance you’ve tried something, anything, to get some much-needed relief. […]