by Tina Brown Patients with psoriasis treated with bimekizumab rapidly achieve high levels of clinical and health-related quality-of-life responses that are durable at four years, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology, held from March 8 to 12 in San Diego. Bruce Strober, M.D., Ph.D., from the Yale...
by Elana Gotkine The validated Cough, Overweight/Obesity, Globus, Hiatal Hernia, Regurgitation, and Male Sex (COuGH RefluX) score can predict the likelihood of proven gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in patients with chronic laryngeal symptoms, according to a study published online Feb. 1 in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Amanda J. Krause, M.D., from the University of California...
by University College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA new psychological treatment for children with epilepsy, developed by a UCL-led team of scientists, has been shown to reduce mental health difficulties compared to standard care, a new study finds. Mental health problems such as worries, low mood and behavior problems are more common in children and...
by Wolters Kluwer Health In caring for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people, psychiatrists should focus on alleviating the sequelae of gender minority stress, with the goal of promoting resilience, according to a review published in Harvard Review of Psychiatry. “We envision a role for psychiatry that goes beyond gatekeeping gender-affirming hormone therapy and surgeries,”...
by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainResearchers from the Minds Matter Concussion Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that youth with pre-existing mental health diagnoses experienced a greater burden from emotional symptoms after concussion, as well as a prolonged time to recovery. Importantly, the study was the first of its...
by University of Surrey A representative scheme for the formulation development. Credit: International Journal of Pharmaceutics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2024.123875Nano micelles of Retinol, a type of vitamin A commonly used in anti-aging beauty products, can also help wounds heal faster by promoting skin tissue regeneration, according to studies conducted by the University of Surrey and Phytoceutical...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough designation to an LSD-based treatment for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) based on promising topline data from a phase 2b clinical trial. Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc is developing the treatment — MM120 (lysergide d-tartrate). In a news release the company reports that a single oral dose...
Miriam E. Tucker TOPLINE:European thyroid specialists report willingness to prescribe combination levothyroxine (LT4) + liothyronine (LT3) to patients with hypothyroidism who report persistent symptoms even after normalisation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. These specialists report LT4+LT3 prescribing despite nearly half attributing patients’ persistent symptoms to nonendocrine causes, and the lack of evidence supporting the efficacy...
954Ashley Winter, MD, remembers the first time she Googled the skin condition lichen sclerosus. Most of the websites listed the autoimmune condition as a rare disease. In the realm of genital health, some conditions remain shrouded in silence and consequently are more likely to go undercounted and underdiagnosed, Winter, a urologist based in Los Angeles,...
Perioral dermatitis can look a lot like atopic dermatitis. For primary care clinicians, the similarity in presentation can create challenges in providing the right treatment and knowing when a patient needs to be referred to a dermatologist. The two conditions look similar; both present with itchy, swollen rashes. But atopic dermatitis can be located anywhere...
