Health
According to a decades-long analysis of two birth cohorts published in BMJ Public Health, where people move and the socioeconomic conditions they encounter matter significantly more for coastal health than proximity to the sea alone. Researchers examining health outcomes in England and Wales found that living on the coast during adolescence does not inherently raise … Read more
Living donor kidney transplantation involving a 69-year-old male recipient and his 43-year-old son as a donor featured the successful salvage of an allograft that sustained an unexpected 2 cm full-thickness parenchymal and collecting system injury during a robot-assisted left donor nephrectomy, according to a clinical case report published by the transplant team. Robot-Assisted Donor Nephrectomy … Read more
Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) arrested between 50.2% and 57.5% of active cavitated dentin caries lesions in young children over an eight-month period, according to a phase 3 multisite clinical trial published in JAMA Pediatrics. The trial evaluated 830 generally healthy children aged 12 to 71 months with severe early childhood caries to inform US Food … Read more
Rising healthcare costs are driving a growing number of companies to offer monthly subscription plans that promise savings on prescriptions, telehealth visits, and other everyday medical services, even for consumers who already maintain traditional health insurance, according to independent pharmacist Kevin Day of Day’s Pharmacy. How Healthcare Subscription Plans Work Alongside Insurance Monthly healthcare memberships … Read more
According to Douglas Flora, President-Elect at the Association of Cancer Care Centers, targeted therapies and genomic testing have fundamentally transformed lung cancer treatment over the past decade, shifting advanced prognoses from rare anomalies to routine clinical management. Writing on LinkedIn, Flora detailed how identifying specific genetic mutations, such as Exon 19 deletions in the EGFR … Read more
A new McGill University study tracking more than 260,000 women in the UK reveals that pregnancy complications can identify heart disease risk earlier in life, specifically flagging younger women typically considered low risk. Researchers developed and validated a prediction model using data from women aged 15 to 45 who had given birth, monitoring them for … Read more
Cleveland Clinic launched a drone delivery program for prescription medications in Ohio, utilizing autonomous electric aircraft from the company Zipline to serve patients within a five-mile radius of its Beachwood Administrative Campus. According to Cleveland Clinic, the initiative represents an expansion of its existing home delivery services, allowing eligible patients to receive select prescriptions without … Read more
Artificial intelligence can now generate detailed maps highlighting differences in how distinct parts of the brain age, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Developed by University of Southern California researchers, the deep learning model analyzes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans from nearly 15,000 individuals to map … Read more
According to a study published in BMC Biology, researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Howard University have discovered that modern human immune responses bear genetic marks of ancient battles with infectious diseases, while also identifying rare variants linked to severe COVID-19. The findings bridge human evolution and infectious disease. … Read more
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease affects 34.8 percent of Goa’s population, according to a study conducted by the Goa Medical College, outstripping the national prevalence rate of about 33 percent and a global average of roughly 30 percent. The findings, led by Dr. P.A. Vagurmekar from the Department of Community Medicine at GMC, highlight a growing … Read more