Disabled LGBTQ+ Youth At Greater Risk Of Suicide Than Their Peers, Study Finds
A report released this week by a youth suicide prevention group found that young LGBTQ+ people who are disabled have higher rates of mental health issues and are at greater risk of suicide compared to their non-disabled peers. The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention nonprofit that serves LGBTQ+ youth, surveyed more than 28,500 LGBTQ+ […]
Experts’ Hopes for the Future of dMMR Uterine Cancer Treatment
In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Susana Campos, MD, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and Richard Penson, MBBS, of Mass General Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, discuss how they see uterine cancer treatment evolving in 2024. Following is a transcript of their remarks: Campos: In terms of what’s maybe on […]
Future of Atopic Dermatitis Management
In this MedPage Today video, Lakshi Aldredge, MSN, ANP-BC, DCNP, of VA Portland Health Care System in Oregon, hypothesizes how the management of atopic dermatitis and our understanding of the condition will change over time. Following is a transcript of her remarks: If I had a crystal ball and looked at 2024, what we’re also […]
Epinephrine Was First an Asthma Treatment
This is the first in an occasional series on the origin of commonly used medicines. When epinephrine was first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, it was essentially a drug without a disease. In 1894, two British researchers — physician George Oliver and physiologist Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer — discovered that the extract of […]
Guidance Focuses on Mental Health Symptoms in Long COVID
An interdisciplinary group of physicians has released the latest guidance in its series on long COVID, this time focusing on mental health symptoms. The guidance, published by the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AAPM&R), discusses how to assess mental health systems in patients with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), or long COVID, […]
Britney Spears’ New Memoir: Please Read Responsibly
In this video interview, Jessi Gold, MD, MS, assistant professor and director of wellness, engagement, and outreach in the department of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, discusses how we can mindfully and responsibly approach the mental health themes of Britney Spears’ new memoir, The Woman In Me. The following is […]
I Thought I Was Dying. When I Learned The Truth, I Became Desperate To Keep It Secret.
The author on a moms’ night out. “This was just one of the ways I busied myself to avoid some of the hard feelings and anxieties I was dealing with,” she writes. Courtesy of Lauren Dunn If you know me, or see me on the street, I might appear to be carefree. That is a […]
How Bad Will This Respiratory Virus Season Be? CDC Weighs In.
The CDC predicted that this year’s fall and winter virus season will look a lot like last year’s. “The bottom line here is we’re likely to have a similar number of total hospitalizations as we had last year,” Dylan George, PhD, director of the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, told reporters during a […]
10 Foods That’ll Help Boost Your Immune System This Fall
At this point, most of us know that the very best thing we can do to give our immune system a boost is to get our COVID vaccine and flu shot, and a COVID booster, if you’re eligible. But as the days grow darker and colder and we’re faced with a possible “twindemic” — meaning […]
5 Things Doctors Never, Ever Do During Cold And Flu Season
Edwin Tan via Getty Images There are a few habits you should avoid if you don’t want to get sick this year. Cold and flu season is approaching. As the months get colder and folks are indoors more often, these respiratory illnesses often spread in close quarters. Flu activity begins to increase in October and […]