Indian Health Service Prepping to Break Ground to Replace Aging...
(MedPage Today) — An empty lot between a fire station and a soccer field just outside Albuquerque soon will be the home of a federal medical center first promised to...
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Can GLP-1 Drugs Prevent Worsening Mental Illness? Perhaps, Study Suggests
(MedPage Today) — People with pre-existing depression or anxiety were less likely to have mental health worsening while taking a GLP-1 medication, observational Swedish data suggested. Compared with periods of...
Blood Clots After Colonoscopy; Antibiotics and IBS Risk; Can Vitamin...
(MedPage Today) — Retrospective data showed that resuming direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) 2 days or more following an elective colonoscopy was linked with a higher risk of thromboembolic events without...
Alzheimer's Blood Tests Together Improve Accuracy, Cut Overdiagnosis
(MedPage Today) — A combination of two blood tests improved Alzheimer’s disease triaging and reduced overdiagnosis in people with asymptomatic Alzheimer’s pathology, a prospective cohort study showed. Together, the two...
First-in-Class KRAS-Degrader Promising in Pancreatic, Lung Cancers
(MedPage Today) — Setidegrasib showed promising efficacy in patients with previously treated advanced KRAS G12D-mutated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), results from a phase I...
Estradiol Patch Matches LHRH Agonists for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
(MedPage Today) — Transdermal estradiol for locally advanced prostate cancer matched luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for reducing distant metastasis, and with fewer vasomotor symptoms…...
AI May Drive Health Costs Up, Doc-Economist Says
(MedPage Today) — In this series, MedPage Today is asking healthcare economists and policy experts the same questions about the high costs of U.S. healthcare. They’ll reveal what they believe...
Can a Steroid Swap Protect Bone Health in Adrenal Insufficiency?
(MedPage Today) — Patients with adrenal insufficiency had significant improvements in bone and metabolic markers on a once-daily, low-dose steroid regimen compared with conventional treatment, a randomized trial found. Among...
Deepfake X-Rays Sneak Past Radiologists and AI, Underscoring Abuse Potential
(MedPage Today) — A majority of radiologists could not distinguish artificial x-rays — deepfakes — from real ones when they evaluated a mix of real and fake images, according to...
Dementia Risk Rises After Severe Infection
(MedPage Today) — Dementia risk rose after older adults had severe infection and the risk was not attributable to other comorbidities, a Finnish registry study suggested. Of all hospital-treated diseases...
