Is Ozempic the New Anti-Inflammatory Wonder Drug?
Nearly a decade ago, a thin, soft-spoken twenty-something woman named Megan walked into my office and presented me with a meticulous hand-written file containing her gastrointestinal history. The file included descriptions of her initial diagnosis of Crohn’s disease as a teenager, the multiple operations she had endured to remove diseased parts of her bowels, and the array of symptoms she suffered with, including nausea, a dozen bowel movements a day, and a total reliance on nutrition obtained through her veins, known as total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Instead of twenty feet of small intestines that most people hav...
Source: TIME: Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shilpa Ravella Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Liver transplant patient becomes volunteer for department that saved his life
In 2020, just as COVID-19 was breaking throughout the world, 60-year-old Gerald (Gerry) Polcari had a sudden gallstone attack that blocked his biliary system. In addition to experiencing extreme pain, Gerry's kidney and liver began to fail. He went into septic shock and eventually necrotizing pancreatitis. Gerry had previously enjoyed a healthy life with no symptoms or warning signs that anything was wrong. After four months in a Boston-area hospital without family being able to… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 25, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Kadyrov's diagnosis shocks relatives:'Won't be the same '
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was diagnosed with necrotizing pancreatitis five years ago, and recent developments with his condition left his relatives in a "depressed state", an independent Russian investigative newspaper reported on Monday. The reports come amid swirling rumors about the health…#chechen #ramzankadyrov #russian #muslim #chechnya #latvia #novayagazeta #soviet #mikhailgorbachev #vladimirputin (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pancreatic Enzyme Therapy Linked to Drop in Pediatric Acute Pancreatitis
TUESDAY, April 16, 2024 -- Use of pancreatic enzyme therapy (PERT) is associated with a reduction in the incidence rate of acute pancreatitis (AP) among children with pancreatic sufficient acute recurrent pancreatitis (ARP) or chronic pancreatitis... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 16, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Substantial Triglyceride Reduction With Plozasiran Substantial Triglyceride Reduction With Plozasiran
In patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia who are at risk for acute pancreatitis, the drug brought about triglyceride reductions of more than 50% in the phase 2 SHASTA-2 study.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Taylor Swift Is Embracing the 5 Stages of Grief. Should You?
Call it the Five Stages of Grief (Taylor’s Version). Last week, ahead of the release of her album The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift shared five new playlists that sort her old songs into stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. “These songs represent making room for more good in your life,” she says in a brief audio message accompanying the final playlist, acceptance. “Making that choice. Because a lot of time when we lose things, we gain things too.”
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In the two months since Swift announced her new album, which co...
Source: TIME: Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Ozempic Gets the Oprah Treatment in a New TV Special
Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound are already extremely popular: by 2030, about 10% of the U.S. population will be on one of these drugs and the category’s sales will surpass $100 billion, according to some projections. On March 18, they got another major cultural boost from Oprah Winfrey, who shared her own experience with—and support for—these medications in an ABC special called “Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution.”
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During the special, Winfrey talked about how using one of these weight-loss drugs (she did not say w...
Source: TIME: Health - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Evidence-Based Approach Recommended for Acute Pancreatitis Management
MONDAY, March 18, 2024 -- In a clinical guideline issued by the American College of Gastroenterology and published online in the March issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, evidence-based recommendations are presented for the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Distinctive pathology associated with focal stenosis of the main pancreatic duct secondary to remote trauma: a long-term complication of seat belt pancreatitis - Wu AA, Thompson ED, Cameron JL, He J, Burkhart RA, Burns WR, Lafaro KJ, Shubert CR, Canto MI, Fishman EK, Hruban RH.
We present fou... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
TikTok Influencers Are Now Treating Ozempic Side Effects
Every day dozens of people come to Jennifer Witherspoon—a former dental office manager with zero medical training—for help managing nausea, headaches, and other side effects that can come with taking weight-loss shots. She even crafted a template response to help her quickly get through the messages.
“People have offered to pay me, begged me to start a podcast, asked me to call their sisters-in-law, wanted me to call their doctor,” she said. “One lady even invited me to her wedding.” Even Oprah’s production company reached out to feature one of her videos in a prime time specia...
Source: TIME: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Madison Muller, Andre Tartar, and Tanaz Meghjani/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
What do you know about pancreatitis?
Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas, a long, flat gland that lies horizontally behind your stomach. The pancreas produces enzymes for digestion and hormones that regulate the way your body processes sugar. About 275,000 hospital stays for acute pancreatitis occur in the U.S. each year, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease. Chronic pancreatitis is less common, with about 86,000 hospital stays per year. And although pancreatitis is rare in children,… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - January 27, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PET/CT scans show value in patients with rare type of pancreatitis
F-18 FDG-PET/CT scans may help predict relapses in patients with autoimmune pancreatitis, according to a study published January 17 in BMC Gastroenterology.
In an analysis of F-18 FDG-PET/CT scans in patients with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) prior to treatment, specific imaging findings were higher in a group that subsequently relapsed than in those who did not relapse, noted first authors Shengxin Chen and Guanyun Wang, of Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, and colleagues.
“Relapse seriously affects the lives of patients and comprises a heavy psychological burden; therefore, it is necessary to identify predict...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
Professor gets $6.4M from U.S. DoD for acute pancreatitis research
Earlier this year, the professor was also awarded $2 million by the Department of Defense. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - January 4, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Laurel Thrailkill Source Type: news
When Should We Consider A Rickettsial Disease?
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Rickettsioses are “small, obligate intracellular, gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillary α-proeobacteria” from the genuses Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Coxiella, Ehrlichia, and Orientia genuses. Often they cause limited health problems but can cause severe disease and death. They present with a fever and other non-specific signs and symptoms, usually with a rash and lymphadenopathy. Other problems can include:
Cardiac – endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis
Gastrointestinal – abdominal pain, acute abdomen, cholecystitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis
Heme/Lymph – hemophagocytosis, lymph...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - December 18, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Science ’s 2023 Breakthrough of the Year: Weight loss drugs with a real shot at fighting obesity
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Obesity plays out as a private struggle and a public health crisis. In the United States, about 70% of adults are affected by excess weight, and in Europe that number is more than half. The stigma against fat can be crushing; its risks, life-threatening. Defined as a body mass index of at least 30, obesity is thought to power type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, fatty liver disease, and certain cancers.
Yet drug treatments...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
