Physicians Struggle to Help Diabetes Patients Get Tirzepatide
Endocrinologists say patients are once again having trouble accessing injectable medications they use to control type 2 diabetes, this time with tirzepatide (Mounjaro). Thanks to record demand, supply chain issues, and what some experts say is inappropriate off-label prescribing, endocrinologists said there has been a shortage in recent weeks which has pharmacies backed up and […]
Cells refine palm fat into olive oil: Study provides the first precise insight into important remodeling processes in adipose tissue
Fat molecules serve as energy storage for fat cells. They consist of three fatty acids attached to a backbone of glycerol. They are therefore also called triglycerides. It has long been suspected that molecules do not remain unchanged during their storage period. Instead, they are regularly broken down and reassembled — a process called “triglyceride […]
Day in the Life of a Doctor: Treating a Patient With Septic Shock
[embedded content] Join internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, and her husband, as they spend the day in a hospital covering for a physician shortage. Following is a partial transcript (note that errors are possible): Deshauer: Hey, guys. I’m Siobhan, an internal medicine and rheumatology specialist. Today I’m working in the hospital with […]
Opinion | ‘It Is a Horrifying Prospect’: What We Heard This Week
“It is a horrifying prospect that many more individuals could die because they will be forced to remain pregnant against their will.” — Jen Villavicencio, MD, of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on how maternal mortality in the U.S. will likely be impacted by the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. “Besides […]
Could Earlier Initiation of HPV Vaccine Boost Immunization in Adolescents?
Teenagers had better vaccine coverage against human papillomavirus (HPV) if they were vaccinated at earlier ages as older children instead of early adolescents, a retrospective study showed. Early initiators vaccinated at age 9 or 10 were, compared with those who initiated at ages 11 to 12, more likely to complete the HPV vaccine series by […]
My Obsession With My Boyfriend Was Driving Us Apart. Then I Found Out What Was Really Going On.
The author and her partner, Cole, two weeks before they got engaged. Courtesy of Jade Deyoe It started one night about a month after we’d met, when he said something funny and I didn’t react quickly enough. He was staying at my place, a one-bedroom house I was renting in the Mojave Desert. The space […]
12 Sneaky Causes Of Heart Palpitations That Aren’t Stress Or Caffeine
The way we describe how someone makes us feel — that they make our heart flutter or skip a beat — is a cutesy phenomenon, in theory. But when heart palpitations strike for real, it can be an alarming experience. “Palpitations are the sensation of a fluttering, pounding, irregular heartbeat or rapid heart rate,” said […]
Opinion | ‘Everybody Is a Little Bit Anxious’: What We Heard This Week
“Everybody is a little bit anxious, and they are watching this.” — William Schaffner, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, on a study showing mammal-to-mammal transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza on a mink farm in Spain. “We know that alcohol-based hand sanitizer kills more bugs than hand-washing removes.” — Janet Glowicz, PhD, […]
Opinion | Should Future COVID Boosters Include the Ancestral Strain?
The current COVID-19 mRNA vaccine boosters are bivalent, meaning they contain equal amounts of spike protein mRNA for the original Wuhan virus sequence and for the BA.4/5 Omicron variants that emerged in mid-2022. How well does this type of bivalent booster perform? The question is relevant because FDA’s recent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory […]
Early tastings shorten breastfeeding
The earlier infants begin to taste small samples of solid food, the earlier they eat more food and stop breastfeeding. This is shown in a new study from Uppsala University and Sophiahemmet University, in which the mothers of 1,251 infants from all over Sweden participated. Almost half of the infants received tastings at the age […]