What’s Happening In Your Body And Brain When You’re Homesick
Melanie Acevedo via Getty Images Feeling homesick is a very normal part of life — and there are ways you can feel better. I remember the day I boarded the plane at John F. Kennedy airport, a one-way boarding pass in hand. I felt a mix of excitement and trepidation as I embarked on a […]
Adding Mylotarg to Chemo Fails to Boost Survival in NPM1-Mutated AML
There was bad news and good news in a phase III trial evaluating intensive chemotherapy with or without gemtuzumab ozogamicin (Mylotarg) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients with newly diagnosed, NPM1-mutated disease. For the primary endpoints of event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS), the gemtuzumab ozogamicin-treated group experienced no benefit, but addition of the […]
Opinion | It’s Time for a Risk-Adapted Approach to Breast Cancer Screening
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the U.S., and there is a substantial disparity in breast cancer mortality by race, particularly for early-onset breast cancer in Black women. In a recent study I co-authored and published in JAMA Network Open, we showed that if breast cancer screening is […]
Opinion | ‘Oh, Wow, There He Goes’: What We Heard This Week
“We love the fact you just kind of look up in the sky and go, ‘Oh, wow, there he goes.’” — Corinn Darby, wife of John Darby, MD, whose ashes were launched into low-earth orbit. “The uncertainty is really unfortunate.” — Joshua Sharfstein, MD, former principal deputy commissioner of the FDA, on the future of […]
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 […]
CDC Alerts Docs to Watch for Potential Imported Marburg Cases
While there have been no confirmed cases of Marburg virus disease (MVD) outside Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, clinicians and public health experts should be aware of the potential for imported cases, the CDC said. In a Health Alert Network advisory, the agency said that it is important for clinicians to assess patients for the possibility […]
Dementia Accompanying Cardiometabolic Disease: Does It Come Down to Genetics?
There may be a limit to how much reducing cardiometabolic disease would lower the risk of dementia in older people genetically predisposed to both conditions, a twin study suggested. Twins over age 60 developed dementia at an incidence of 16.9% over a median 15.4 years of follow-up in a cohort counting over 17,000 individuals in […]
Is There A Best Time Of Day For Therapy? Here’s What Therapists Say.
There are a few crucial items to figure out when starting therapy ― like finding a therapist who you trust, picking the best treatment modality, and figuring out a way to fit a session into your schedule. When it comes to the latter, the time you choose may be more influential than you think. Is […]
Opinion | Is Red Meat Consumption Bad for You?
When the Skeptical Cardiologist was training as a cardiologist in the late 1980s there were two (unproven) concepts that had emerged from epidemiological research that I accepted as proven. The first was that consumption of saturated fatty acids (SFAs) of any type and in any food increased the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). The […]
A New Tool to Report Medical Trainee Mistreatment Reveals Thorny Issues
With the introduction of an online tool at an academic medical center, trainees there were able to report incidents of mistreatment and show that a small number of faculty were responsible for the bulk of unprofessional behavior, according to a cohort study. From a pool of 4,200 medical students, residents, clinical fellows, graduate students, and […]