Year: 2024

Over the last five years, Larimer County in northern Colorado has seen what appears to be a steady, sustained drop in its suicide rate—a potentially significant breakthrough in a state that consistently ranks in the top 10 nationally for its high rate…Read More

Ann Lewandowski knows all about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that shape the U.S. drug market. Her job, as a policy advocate at drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, was to tell patient and physician groups about the PBMs’ role in high drug prices…Read More

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found the Planetary Health Diet, which emphasizes nonprocessed, plant-based food with a modest amount of meat and dairy, can lower risk of premature death by 30%. It can also substantially decrease the average person’s environmental impact…Read More

Each child had already undergone at least three open-heart surgeries. They’d endured countless hours in doctors’ offices and hospitals after being born with a serious heart condition…Read More

Monitoring molecular changes in the brain caused by cancer and other neurological pathologies in a non-invasive way is one of the major challenges in biomedical research. A new experimental technique has achieved this by introducing light into the brains of mice using an ultra-thin probe. The study is published in the journal Nature Methods by […]

Since the pandemic, many workers across industries are working a 9-to-5 while building new businesses or engaging in some sort of “side hustle.” In fact, a recent CBS News report estimated that nearly 50% of American employees work some type of side gig — and physician associates (PAs) are no exception…Read More

With long wait times for behavioral healthcare delaying diagnosis and treatment of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), an approach in primary care could fast-track care for patients. The Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Minnesota in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, implemented a pair of screening tools that reduced complaint-to-treatment times for uncomplicated […]

TOPLINE: Aggressive margin reduction with MRI-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) led to a significantly lower incidence of late genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicities at 2 years compared with CT-guided SBRT in men with localized prostate cancer, new data showed. METHODOLOGY: MRI-guided SBRT is known to reduce planning margins in prostate cancer and lead to less acute […]

TOPLINE: Stem cell transplantation tames some refractory systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis–related lung disease that does not respond to other treatment. METHODOLOGY: Retrospective cohort study of 13 children with refractory systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis–related lung disease (sJIA-LD) who had allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Children whose median age was 9 years at transplantation underwent HSCT […]

Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis said on Monday its gene therapy helped improve motor function in children with a rare muscle disorder that leaves patients too weak to walk, talk and swallow. Novartis was testing the therapy, onasemnogene abeparvovec or OAV101 IT, in a late-stage trial of patients between the ages of 2 and less […]