Medications
FDA approves new antibiotic against UTIs
As many patients already know, urinary tract infections (UTIs) can recur despite the use of antibiotics.
Apr 25, 2024
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Health
Q&A: Climate change and health care—how individuals and institutions can help
Unseasonably mild winters. Forest fires and smoke. More reports of catastrophic storms. We've experienced increasingly extreme weather changes in the past few years, and the intersection between environmental issues and health ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Cardiology
Inter-atrial shunts may benefit some heart failure patients while harming others, trial finds
Inter-atrial shunts—investigational devices that create a small pathway for blood to pass from the left to the right side of the heart in order to improve heart failure symptoms and outcomes—may be beneficial to heart ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Cardiology
Missed opportunity: Automated external defibrillators near cardiac arrests rarely used by bystanders
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are a common resource in public buildings, yet a new analysis reveals that they are rarely used to help resuscitate people suffering cardiac arrest. Research presented at the American ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Cardiology
Wearable tech captures real-time hemodynamics on the go
Researchers have developed a photoacoustic imaging watch for high-resolution imaging of blood vessels in the skin. The wearable device could offer a non-invasive way to monitor hemodynamic indicators such as heart rate, blood ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Cardiology
Study finds children in marginalized communities more likely to experience cardiac arrests
A new study shows children living in marginalized communities are at a higher risk of experiencing pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (POHCA)—a rare, life-threatening event occurring outside a hospital setting in ...
Feb 26, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Heavy cannabis use increases risk of developing an anxiety disorder, study suggests
According to new research, 27% of individuals who had an emergency department visit for cannabis use developed a new anxiety disorder within three years.
Feb 6, 2024
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Flagging dementia patients for better hospital care
Cedars-Sinai investigators are using electronic health records to identify hospitalized patients likely to have dementia. The method they developed, detailed in a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics ...
Jan 11, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Minimizing immunotherapy's potentially harmful side effects
Recent advances in treating multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer, and other blood malignancies are providing improved outcomes—and hope—to patients worldwide.
Jan 4, 2024
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Health informatics
Physician burnout is reduced with peer support, study finds
A new Kaiser Permanente physician peer support program designed to reduce burnout helped improve doctors' well-being and had a positive impact on the culture of the medical departments that took part in the program, Kaiser ...
Nov 15, 2023
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