by University of California, Los Angeles “As pregnancy complications continue to rise worldwide, there have been increasing efforts to study with urgency the first-trimester as a window of opportunity for early identification and prediction of GDM, and the optimal point to take action to prevent maternal disease,” said Dr. Sherin Devaskar, lead author of the study....
by Jason Howland, Mayo Clinic Credit: Wikimedia Commons/National Cancer Institute Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. It develops in the cells that produce the pigment in your skin that gives it color. It most often occurs on skin that is exposed to the sun, but can develop in your eyes and, rarely, inside...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the monoclonal antibody Dupixent (dupilumab) to treat eosinophilic esophagitis patients 12 years and older. The efficacy and safety of Dupixent was evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, parallel-group (Part A and Part B), multicenter, placebo-controlled trial, in which patients received either placebo or Dupixent every week for 24...
by King’s College London Proportion of patients newly diagnosed with gout (n = 129,972), separated by year of diagnosis, who: i) were initiated on urate-lowering therapy (ULT) within 12 months of diagnosis (black line); or ii) had a serum urate performed (n = 65,127) and attained a level ≤360 µmol/L (light blue) or ≤300 µmol/L (dark blue) within 12 months...
by Amy Norton Healthday Reporter Researchers may finally have definitive proof of what’s caused recent outbreaks of a rare polio-like illness in U.S. children: a respiratory virus that is usually harmless. The condition, called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), attacks tissue in the spinal cord, causing muscles and reflexes to weaken suddenly. In some cases, it also impairs...
by Laura Kurtzman, University of Washington School of Medicine Doxycycline structure. Credit: Giorgiogp2/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A significant proportion of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—gonorrhea, chlamydia or syphilis—were prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex, according to preliminary results of a clinical trial that closed early because it was very effective for men who have...
by C. Michael White, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Food and Drug Administration took 130 enforcement actions against counterfeit medication rings from 2016 through 2021, according to my new study published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Such actions might involve arrests, confiscation of products or counterfeit rings being dissolved. These counterfeiting operations involved tens of millions...
by Trish Greenhalgh, Brendan Delaney and Manoj Sivan, The Conversation Credit: bbernard/Shutterstock Graham was a healthy 34-year-old until he developed COVID in July 2020. Along with his wife and children, he had a fever, a cough, breathlessness, profound fatigue and he lost his sense of smell. But instead of getting better like the rest of his...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and one in Japan has developed a new type of vaccine that helps the immune system destroy cancerous tumors by overcoming their defense system. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes...
by Jessica Taylor Price, Northeastern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Northeastern experts are taking the mystery out of what we eat. In a paper published Tuesday in Nature Food, Giulia Menichetti, senior research scientist at Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, demonstrates that the concentrations of different nutrients in food follow a fixed pattern, and that the amount of any given...
