Infant health suffered during baby formula shortage
The nationwide baby formula shortage two years ago forced many parents to involuntarily switch brands or types. A recent survey from researchers at the University of California, Davis, highlights how these substitutions led to undesirable effects for babies, including vomiting. The study was published in the journal Nutrients. In an online survey of 178 parents […]
Yes, Time Does Feel Different Since The Pandemic — And There’s A Reason Why
LOADINGERROR LOADING The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic now four years ago, on March 11, 2020. It feels like yesterday, last month and decades ago all at the same time. Running out of toilet paper feels like a distant memory. Wiping down groceries, doing elbow bumps instead of handshakes and being unable to […]
School Shootings in U.S. Reach Highest Recorded Levels
U.S. school shootings rose in frequency over the last 25 years and reached their highest recorded levels, data analyses showed. Across the 1997-1998 to 2021-2022 school years, there were 1,453 shootings, according to Luke Rapa, PhD, of Clemson University in South Carolina, and colleagues. The number of shootings ranged from a low of 15 in […]
For Kids With Sickle Cell Disease Prescribed Opioids, No Patterns of Misuse Emerged
No patterns of long-term or increasing use of opioids were identified within 3 years among opioid-naive children with sickle cell disease (SCD) who were prescribed the drugs for an acute pain episode, according to a retrospective cohort study. In the cohort of 725 children, mean days’ supply of opioids over 3 years was 30, despite […]
New Standard for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma?
SAN FRANCISCO — After more than 20 years of trying, systemic therapy for unresectable liver cancer has improved outcomes with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), a randomized trial showed. Patients who received durvalumab (Imfinzi) plus bevacizumab (Avastin) in addition to TACE had a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 15.0 months as compared with 8.2 months for TACE […]
Ancient ‘chewing gum’ reveals stone age diet
What did people eat on the west coast of Scandinavia 10,000 years ago? A new study of the DNA in a chewing gum shows that deer, trout and hazelnuts were on the diet. It also shows that one of the individuals had severe problems with her teeth. Some 9,700 years ago, a group of people […]
Opinion | ‘We Needed to Do Something Different’: What We Heard This Week
“It was very clear just over the last 10 years … we needed to do something different.” — AnnaMarie Connolly, MD, chief of education and academic affairs at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on next season’s changes made to the application process for ob/gyn residency programs. “Legislative efforts on a more local/state level […]
Study Assuages Fears of Pancreatic Cancer Risk With GLP-1 Receptor Agonists
Several years after initiating treatment, GLP-1 receptor agonist users didn’t have a pancreatic cancer safety signal, a historical cohort study reported. Compared with basal insulin users, those on a GLP-1 receptor agonist didn’t have a significantly different risk for developing pancreatic cancer in the 5 to 7 years that followed (HR 0.50, 95% CI 0.15-1.71), […]
New reasons eating less fat should be one of your resolutions
A UC Riverside study to motivate your new year’s resolutions: it demonstrates that high-fat diets affect genes linked not only to obesity, colon cancer and irritable bowels, but also to the immune system, brain function, and potentially COVID-19 risk. While other studies have examined the effects of a high-fat diet, this one is unusual in […]
Opinion | The ED Remains Colored by Despair
Edwin Leap is a board-certified emergency physician who has been practicing for 30 years since finishing residency. He currently works as an emergency physician for WVU Hospitals in Princeton, West Virginia. Follow In late 2022, Edwin Leap, MD, wrote about how emergency departments throughout the country were overburdened with patients and staffed with healthcare workers […]