U.S. Exercise Levels; Lifestyle and Memory Decline; Cooling Kidney Donors
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - February 4, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Here's How to End the U.S. Health Disadvantage
(MedPage Today) -- Two recently released reports on the status of U.S. health spending and healthcare quality and equity describe an all-too-familiar picture: U.S. healthcare spending has continued to increase; health disparities have persisted... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - February 4, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
On Medically Assisted Dying
(MedPage Today) -- "The Doctor's Art" is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 31, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
ICI Survival Gains 'Less Impressive' in Older Lung Cancer Patients
(MedPage Today) -- The introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in 2015 has resulted in meaningful survival gains for younger patients, but gains were far more modest among older patients... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 26, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Questioning Medical Traditions
(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. consumes about 46 million turkeys every Thanksgiving. Have you ever wondered why? When traditions take hold in society, we start to forget why they existed in the first place. For example, the tradition of eating turkey... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 25, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
In Knee OA, Exercise Is Helpful ... But Maybe More in Mind Than Body
(MedPage Today) -- High-dose exercise was only slightly more beneficial for patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) than a less-intense program in a randomized trial, researchers said.
After 12 weeks of program participation, mean Knee Injury and... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 23, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Diabetes Drug for Cats Now Approved in Humans Too
(MedPage Today) -- The first oral SGLT2 inhibitor approved by the FDA for treating diabetes in cats is now approved for humans with the disease, drugmaker TheracosBio announced.
As an adjunct to diet and exercise, the oral treatment is indicated... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 23, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Patients With Celiac and Overlap IBD Skip Out on Gluten-Free Diets
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- Patients with celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) had a tough time sticking with a gluten-free diet, a researcher reported.
Only one out of 36 people with celiac disease and IBD maintained a gluten... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 22, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Medicare to Look More Closely at Antipsychotic Use in Nursing Homes
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced actions on Wednesday that would put greater scrutiny on antipsychotic prescribing in nursing homes as well as let consumers know about citations... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 18, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
One Addiction Clinic, Five Stories of Perseverance
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Amy Ho: Hey everyone... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 17, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
'Just Say No' to the Medication Switches
(MedPage Today) -- No. Just no.
As the start of the new year has come around and gone, I'm sure you all, like me, have been inundated with the ritual beginning of the year change of prescription requests."The Lantus (glargine insulin) that you... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 17, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
What Happens When Patients Learn About Their Alzheimer's Status?
(MedPage Today) -- Learning about a positive amyloid-PET result was associated with psychological changes among people with subjective cognitive decline, but those changes did not reach a threshold for clinical concern.
In the prospective AMYPAD... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 13, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Healthy Eating Linked to Lower Risk of Total Mortality
(MedPage Today) -- Adhering to healthy eating patterns was associated with lower risk of total and cause-specific mortality, a prospective cohort study with up to 36 years of follow-up showed.
Among 75,230 women from the Nurses' Health Study and... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 9, 2023 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Twelve-Month Data Back Pegloticase-Methotrexate Gout Combo
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Previous findings that adding methotrexate to pegloticase (Krystexxa) in patients with gout was more effective than pegloticase alone have now been extended to a full year of treatment.
At month 12 in the randomized... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - November 13, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Want a Few Weeks of Knee Pain Relief? Try This
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Blocking agents delivered to genicular nerves around the knee markedly reduced osteoarthritis patients' perceptions of pain, far more than those receiving placebo injections, a randomized trial showed.
At week... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - November 12, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
