THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- A patient navigation program is effective for increasing receipt of follow-up colonoscopy among adults with an abnormal stool test result, according to a study published online April 1 in the Annals of Internal...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- There is a notable gap in public awareness and knowledge of dysphagia compared with other conditions, according to a study published online March 27 in Dysphagia. Sonja M. Molfenter, Ph.D., from New York University in New...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Use of hormonal contraceptives postpartum is associated with an increased risk for developing postpartum depression, according to a study published online March 31 in JAMA Network Open. Søren Vinther Larsen, Ph.D...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Zoster vaccination seems to have a dementia-preventing or dementia-delaying effect, according to a study published online April 2 in Nature. Markus Eyting, Ph.D., from Stanford University in California, and colleagues...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- A machine learning algorithm can diagnose celiac disease from duodenal biopsies with accuracy comparable to pathologists, according to a study published online March 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine AI. Florian...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Use of the NeuroSAFE technique, a standardized frozen section analysis that enables accurate real-time detection of positive surgical margins during nerve sparing in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), improves...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Maternal influences have a persistent effect on offspring obesity through age 42 years, according to a study published online March 26 in PLOS ONE. Glenna Nightingale, Ph.D., from the University of Edinburgh in the United...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Early-life ozone (O3) exposure is associated with asthma and wheeze outcomes at 4 to 6 years of age, according to a study published online April 2 in JAMA Network Open. Logan C. Dearborn, M.P.H., from the University of...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Stroke survivors with a higher education level have a steeper decline in executive function, according to a study published online March 26 in JAMA Network Open. Mellanie V. Springer, M.D., from the University of Michigan...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- Whole and 2 percent milk may be coming back to school lunch trays, more than a decade after being removed to help reduce childhood obesity, The Associated Press reported. Federal lawmakers have reintroduced bills to...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- Microplastic exposure may increase the risk for chronic diseases, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, held from March 29 to 31 in Chicago. Sai Rahul Ponnana, from...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- Despite increased participation in U.S. long-distance running races, cardiac arrest incidence remains stable, according to a study published online March 30 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- From 1999 to 2022, there was a considerable increase in maternal mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, held from March...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- In a living clinical practice guideline issued by the American Gastroenterological Association and published in the April issue of Gastroenterology, no recommendation -- for or against -- is made for the use of...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- For patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease and type 2 diabetes, semaglutide use is associated with increased walking distance, according to a study published online March 29 in The Lancet to coincide with the...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fINRS) can classify pain, and virtual reality (VR) can reduce cancer-related pain, according to a study published online March 15 in Scientific Reports. Somayeh B. Shafiei, Ph.D...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- Engaging in physical activity concentrated within one to two days is associated with a similar reduction in mortality risk as active regular physical activity, according to a study published online April 2 in the Journal...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- The digital remote AROMHA Brain Health Test (ABHT) can discriminate cognitively normal (CN) older adults from those with cognitive impairment, according to a study published online March 24 in Scientific...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- Some commonly prescribed photosensitizing drugs increase skin cancer risk, according to a study published online March 18 in Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & Photomedicine. Gustav Boelsgaard Christensen, from...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- For patients with prostate cancer, isodose and dose-escalated moderately hypofractionated radiotherapy (MHFRT) have similar efficacy as conventionally fractionated radiotherapy (CFRT), but bowel toxicity is seen in...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- An artificial intelligence (AI) approach identified total parenteral nutrition (TPN) formulas that increase safety and potentially reduce costs for neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care units, according to a study...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- Subclinical cardiac dysfunction is associated with brain imaging markers of neurodegeneration, according to a study published online March 26 in Neurology. Amber Yaqub, from Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- More than 3.8 million U.S. lung cancer deaths were averted during 1970 to 2022, and more than 76 million person-years of life were gained, according to a study published online March 25 in CA: A Cancer Journal for...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- Urodynamics plus comprehensive clinical assessment (CCA) is not superior to CCA only for women with refractory overactive bladder or urgency predominant mixed urinary incontinence, according to a study published in the...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- A higher percentage of individuals who have psychostimulant involvement in synthetic opioid overdose deaths tend to work in physically demanding occupations and industries, according to research published in the March 27...