Are Antibiotics Linked to Dementia? New Study Weighs In (MedPage Today) -- Antibiotic use didn't raise the risk of dementia in healthy older adults, a prospective study suggested.
Over about 5 years of follow-up, antibiotic use was not tied to higher dementia incidence (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.84-1.25) compared...
A Thin Shred of My Sanity Remained. Then I Hit My Breaking Point. (MedPage Today) -- I distinctly remember one Tuesday morning during the second half of my first year of ophthalmology residency in 2014. It was 6 a.m., and I was hysterically crying while standing in my kitchen, holding a pair of scissors to my...
Long COVID Symptoms Improve With Outpatient Intervention (MedPage Today) -- Self-reported physical function was better for long COVID patients after a brief outpatient program based on cognitive and behavioral therapy, a pragmatic trial in Norway showed.
Scores on the Short-Form Health Survey 36 Physical...
U.S. Deaths Are Down and Life Expectancy Is Up, but Improvements Are Slowing (MedPage Today) -- U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggest there may be another -- much smaller -- improvement this year.
Death rates fell last year for almost all leading causes, notably COVID-19, heart disease...
Serious Catheter Recall; Justice Department Sues CVS; 2025's Health Theme (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription.
Boston Scientific issued a recall involving updated instructions for its POLARx and POLARx FIT cryoablation balloon catheters following several reports of atrio...
Chatbots Fail Standard Cognitive Test (MedPage Today) -- President-elect Donald Trump may have once scored a perfect 30/30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), but artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots didn't perform nearly as well.
On the well-known cognitive screen, most...
Remembering Marie Manthey, a Creator of the Primary Nursing Model of Care (MedPage Today) -- Marie Ellen Manthey, MSN, one of the creators of primary nursing, a system of nursing care delivery, died on Dec. 12 at her home in Minneapolis.
While serving as associate director of nursing at the University of Minnesota's...
Combination Therapy Improves PTSD Symptoms (MedPage Today) -- A combination of brexpiprazole (Rexulti) and sertraline improved post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms more than sertraline alone, a phase III trial found.
The primary endpoint was the change in the Clinician-Administered...
Cymbalta Bottles Recalled; 1 in 3 Older Adults Are Lonely; Walking Off Depression (MedPage Today) -- Over 230,000 bottles of the antidepressant duloxetine (Cymbalta) have been recalled due to the presence of a potential carcinogen. (USA Today)
In an exploratory analysis of two phase III trials, xanomeline/trospium chloride...
Experts Debate the Best Ways to Use Opioid Settlement Funds (MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Policy experts and advocates debated the best ways to use opioid settlement funds during an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute on Monday.
Opioid manufacturers and other stakeholders have been directed...
What Comes After Cancer? (MedPage Today) -- Research recently published in JAMA highlights an alarming trend: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors (defined as age 15-39 at diagnosis) are facing significantly higher rates of suicide compared to their peers...
Most U.S. Teens Are Abstaining From Drinking, Smoking, and Marijuana, Survey Says (MedPage Today) -- Teen drug use hasn't rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday.
About two-thirds of 12th graders this year said they...
Alzheimer's Mortality Lowest for Taxi, Ambulance Drivers (MedPage Today) -- Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers -- two groups of people with jobs that require frequent spatial and navigational processing -- had the lowest proportions of deaths attributed to Alzheimer's disease, an analysis of U.S...
Parents Lose Sleep to Kids' Eczema (MedPage Today) -- Parents of children with eczema are more likely to be short on sleep and to use medication to try to get more of it, a retrospective National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) analysis showed.
In a sample weighted to be nationally...
A Psychiatrist's Prescription for Americans' Anger (MedPage Today) -- Donald J. Trump gets re-elected president, and some people express regret, dismayed by what their vote really meant. Example: "My government contractor colleague voted for Trump and then found out after the election that he intends...
Medical Assistance in Dying; Health Benefits of Chocolate? (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...
Dementia Incidence Linked to Inflammatory Foods (MedPage Today) -- Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed.
Over 13 years of follow-up, higher Dietary Inflammatory...
Back Trouble, Brain Fog Bothered Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing, Posts Show (MedPage Today) -- After Luigi Mangione made the difficult decision to undergo spinal surgery last year for chronic back pain, he became a proponent of the procedure that changed his life for the better.
He repeatedly posted on Reddit about his...
Providers, You Are the Missing Piece: Your Patients With OUD Need You (MedPage Today) -- As of 2023, more than 5 million people ages 12 or older in the U.S. have opioid use disorder (OUD). Although evidence shows that patients receiving medication for their OUD die of all causes at half the rate of those who do not...
More CEOs Targeted in Wanted Posters; Ultraprocessed Food Lawsuit; OD Deaths Fall (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription.
"Wanted" posters of healthcare CEOs were put up in New York City in the wake of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (PIX11)
Health insurance workers...
Britain Indefinitely Bans Puberty Blockers for Children With Gender Dysphoria (MedPage Today) -- The British government on Wednesday indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing the medication.
The decision, which...
(MedPage Today) -- Antibiotic use didn't raise the risk of dementia in healthy older adults, a prospective study suggested.
Over about 5 years of follow-up, antibiotic use was not tied to higher dementia incidence (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.84-1.25) compared... 
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(MedPage Today) -- I distinctly remember one Tuesday morning during the second half of my first year of ophthalmology residency in 2014. It was 6 a.m., and I was hysterically crying while standing in my kitchen, holding a pair of scissors to my... 
(MedPage Today) -- Self-reported physical function was better for long COVID patients after a brief outpatient program based on cognitive and behavioral therapy, a pragmatic trial in Norway showed.
Scores on the Short-Form Health Survey 36 Physical... 
(MedPage Today) -- U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggest there may be another -- much smaller -- improvement this year.
Death rates fell last year for almost all leading causes, notably COVID-19, heart disease... 
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription.
Boston Scientific issued a recall involving updated instructions for its POLARx and POLARx FIT cryoablation balloon catheters following several reports of atrio... 
(MedPage Today) -- President-elect Donald Trump may have once scored a perfect 30/30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), but artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots didn't perform nearly as well.
On the well-known cognitive screen, most... 
(MedPage Today) -- Marie Ellen Manthey, MSN, one of the creators of primary nursing, a system of nursing care delivery, died on Dec. 12 at her home in Minneapolis.
While serving as associate director of nursing at the University of Minnesota's... 
(MedPage Today) -- A combination of brexpiprazole (Rexulti) and sertraline improved post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms more than sertraline alone, a phase III trial found.
The primary endpoint was the change in the Clinician-Administered... 
(MedPage Today) -- Over 230,000 bottles of the antidepressant duloxetine (Cymbalta) have been recalled due to the presence of a potential carcinogen. (USA Today)
In an exploratory analysis of two phase III trials, xanomeline/trospium chloride... 
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Policy experts and advocates debated the best ways to use opioid settlement funds during an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute on Monday.
Opioid manufacturers and other stakeholders have been directed... 
(MedPage Today) -- Research recently published in JAMA highlights an alarming trend: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors (defined as age 15-39 at diagnosis) are facing significantly higher rates of suicide compared to their peers... 
(MedPage Today) -- Teen drug use hasn't rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday.
About two-thirds of 12th graders this year said they... 
(MedPage Today) -- Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers -- two groups of people with jobs that require frequent spatial and navigational processing -- had the lowest proportions of deaths attributed to Alzheimer's disease, an analysis of U.S... 
(MedPage Today) -- Parents of children with eczema are more likely to be short on sleep and to use medication to try to get more of it, a retrospective National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) analysis showed.
In a sample weighted to be nationally... 
(MedPage Today) -- Donald J. Trump gets re-elected president, and some people express regret, dismayed by what their vote really meant. Example: "My government contractor colleague voted for Trump and then found out after the election that he intends... 
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... 
(MedPage Today) -- Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed.
Over 13 years of follow-up, higher Dietary Inflammatory... 
(MedPage Today) -- After Luigi Mangione made the difficult decision to undergo spinal surgery last year for chronic back pain, he became a proponent of the procedure that changed his life for the better.
He repeatedly posted on Reddit about his... 
(MedPage Today) -- As of 2023, more than 5 million people ages 12 or older in the U.S. have opioid use disorder (OUD). Although evidence shows that patients receiving medication for their OUD die of all causes at half the rate of those who do not... 
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription.
"Wanted" posters of healthcare CEOs were put up in New York City in the wake of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (PIX11)
Health insurance workers... 
(MedPage Today) -- The British government on Wednesday indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing the medication.
The decision, which...