February 3, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – A movement to provide hospital-level care for sick patients in their own beds, in the comfort of familiar surroundings, is growing in the United States — a trend already embraced in some other countries A while back, … Read More
February 3, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Basketball Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade talked for the first time yesterday about his surgery for kidney cancer in December 2023. During an episode of “The WY Network” podcast, Wade revealed that he underwent a partial nephrectomy, … Read More
February 3, 2025
(NPR) – Wildman also wrote about the expert medical care Orli received — and the unwillingness of some doctors and nurses to speak openly and realistically about what she was facing. Wildman believes the medical establishment tends to view the … Read More
February 3, 2025
(NPR) – Tiny pulses of electricity may provide the next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. The pulses would be delivered via implanted devices that stimulate the vagus nerve, and they are showing promise in people with arthritis … Read More
February 3, 2025
(UPI) – Your environment affects how well your medications work — identifying exactly how could make medicine better. Even the air you breathe may influence how effective a drug may be for you. Your genes play a major role in … Read More
February 3, 2025
(Axios) – Dozens of newly confirmed cases of avian influenza in wild birds and the first verified U.S. case of a new strain of the virus are raising concern the bird flu crisis may be entering a troubling new phase. … Read More
February 3, 2025
(New York Times) – A fire started inside an oxygen-rich hyperbaric chamber at a Michigan medical facility on Friday, causing it to explode, killing a 5-year-old boy who was inside receiving treatment, officials said. Emergency personnel arrived at the Oxford … Read More
February 3, 2025
(New York Times) – The rapid rise in artificial intelligence has created intense discussions in many industries over what kind of role these tools can and should play — and health care has been no exception. The medical community largely … Read More
February 3, 2025
(The Times) – A palliative care doctor is called to A&E to attend to an elderly man who has arrived in severe pain with metastasised prostate cancer. “I just want to die,” he tells her. Yet when she sits with … Read More
January 31, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Just over half of patients with overweight or obesity discontinued their GLP-1 receptor agonist within 1 year, with rates even higher among the subset without type 2 diabetes, according to a retrospective cohort study. Among over 125,000 … Read More
January 31, 2025
(BBC) – A gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, with a price tag of £1.65m, is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England. About 50 people a year with the inherited blood disorder are likely to receive … Read More
January 31, 2025
(Associated Press) – Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved … Read More
January 31, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – Surgical patients hate pain, but sometimes they need to feel it. They wake up too slowly from general anesthesia and forget to breathe. Shouting fails to rouse them. Putting an alcohol swab under their noses is … Read More
January 30, 2025
(KFF Health News) – The ads feature high-wattage celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez as well as lesser-known influencers who are paid four figures to post a snapshot or short video to Instagram, according to interviews with marketers. Three publicly traded … Read More
January 30, 2025
(BBC) – Uganda’s ministry of health has confirmed a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital, Kampala, with one reported death. The victim was a 32-year-old male nurse whose symptoms included “high fever, chest pain, and difficulty in … Read More
January 30, 2025
(New York Times) – She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants. Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then … Read More
January 30, 2025
(NPR) – Towana Looney is waiting to check in with her doctors at NYU Health Langone when it registers that she’s passing a major milestone in her recovery from a kidney transplant. In late November she became the first person … Read More
January 30, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 24, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
January 29, 2025
(ProPublica) – At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions. The deaths, … Read More
January 29, 2025
(New York Times) – Since the pandemic, drug trials that purposely make people vomit, shiver and ache have become a research area of growing interest. All that’s needed: brave volunteers. “A lot of people say, ‘Doesn’t this violate the Hippocratic … Read More
January 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Measles and mumps are viral diseases so rare that fewer than one in 40,000 Americans catch either of them in a given year. Getting rubella is less likely than getting struck by lightning. But as recently … Read More
January 28, 2025
(BBC) – A man fitted with a pioneering, computer-controlled brain implant to tackle his Parkinson’s disease says it works so well he is sometimes able to forget he has the condition. A small computer inserted into Kevin Hill’s chest wall … Read More
January 28, 2025
(Axios) – Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are working on a novel approach to influenza vaccination that could provide broad protection against multiple strains — including the H5N1 bird flu virus — without the yearly injection. The big … Read More
January 28, 2025
(The Telegraph) – Terminally ill patients given six months to live often survive for three years, official figures have revealed, fuelling fresh concern over assisted dying becoming legal Patients who are given a prognosis of six months by their doctors … Read More
January 27, 2025
(Associated Press) – An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I’m superwoman,” Towana … Read More
