MDedge News Marcia Frellick August 14, 2024 Topical sildenafil (citrate) cream 3.6% used by healthy premenopausal women with a primary symptom of female sexual arousal disorder did not show statistically significant improvement over placebo in the coprimary or secondary endpoints over a 3-month period in new preliminary study data published in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Topical...
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Liver stiffness becomes crucial indicator for post-treatment hepatitis C risk assessment
Medical University of ViennaAug 14 2024 Hepatitis C can be cured in almost all cases with modern medication. However, if advanced liver damage is already present at the time of cure, there is still a residual risk of liver cancer and complications of portal hypertension, such as abdominal fluid, bleeding from the digestive tract and...
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Study demonstrates effective screening and intervention for unhealthy alcohol use in primary care settings
News Release 14-Aug-2024 Peer-Reviewed PublicationIndiana University School of Medicine Between 2015 and 2019, excessive alcohol use resulted in over 140,000 deaths and 3.6 million years of potential life lost annually in the United States, making it the fourth leading cause of preventable death in the country. Despite these staggering numbers, only 4% — approximately 1.4...
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Lipid accumulation drives cellular senescence in dopaminergic neurons
August 13, 2024 by Impact Journals, LLC Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA new research perspective titled Lipid accumulation drives cellular senescence in dopaminergic neurons has been published in Aging. As highlighted in the Abstract of this perspective, Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an age-related movement disorder caused by the loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia...
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Could targeting metabolism treat blood clots in antiphospholipid syndrome?
August 13, 2024 by Valerie Goodwin, University of Michigan Metabolic parameters in neutrophils from people in the control group, patients with APS, patients with aPL-only, and patients with Thromb (aPL–). Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2024). DOI: 10.1172/JCI169893Neutrophils are an important type of white blood cell that help your immune system fight infections. One of...
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Study finds that dopaminergic medication improves sleep quality in Parkinson’s disease patients
August 13, 2024 by FAPESP Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA study involving 22 Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients has shown that use of the dopaminergic drug levodopa improves sleep quality. When the patients took the drug, the number of times they woke up during the night fell 25% and the amount of time they remained awake fell...
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PCOS Increases Eating Disorder Risk
Edited by Shrabasti Bhattacharya August 09, 2024 TOPLINE:Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have higher odds of some eating disorders, including bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and disordered eating, regardless of weight. METHODOLOGY:A small systematic review and meta-analysis showed increased odds of any eating disorders and disordered eating scores in adult women with PCOS compared...
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Quantitative ultrasound parameters offer new tool for diagnosing lung disease
August 13, 2024 by Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University Examples of histology slides corresponding to modified Ashcroft scores 0–4, for H&E (top) and Masson’s trichrome (bottom) staining. Viewed at 100 × total magnification. Scale bar = 200 microns. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-66390-6Researchers have established a suite of parameters that can be determined using ultrasound to quantitatively...
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Routine lab tests are not a reliable way to diagnose long COVID, finds study
August 12, 2024 by NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported study has found that routine lab tests may not be useful in making a long COVID diagnosis for people who have symptoms of the condition. The study, part of NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (NIH...
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Significant link found between heme iron, found in red meat and other animal products, and type 2 diabetes risk
August 13, 2024 by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Credit: CC0 Public DomainHigher intake of heme iron, the type found in red meat and other animal products—as opposed to non-heme iron, found mostly in plant-based foods—was associated with a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) in a new study led by...