Month: January 2025

It was easy to miss Dr. Robert Gray’s quick movements, tapping the screen of his smartphone at the beginning and end of patient visits on a recent day…Read More

Tonsil cancer is a type of head and neck cancer. Head and neck cancers include cancers of the tongue; the back of the tongue, which you can’t see when you look in the mirror; the tonsils; or the throat, which includes several body parts, such as the larynx or voice box…Read More

There is a long-standing belief that drinking milk when you’re sick can worsen cold symptoms and increase mucus production. However, research suggests this belief is more related to perception than to actual effects on the body…Read More

As Chicago residents have been partaking in festivities over the past several weeks, various illnesses have taken hold. Flu activity “continues to rapidly increase,” RSV activity is “very high,” and COVID-19 activity is low but increasing, according to a Dec. 27 Chicago Department of Public Health surveillance summary…Read More

Wondering which popular diet will help you shed extra weight in a healthy way this year…Read More

TOPLINE: A systematic analysis revealed eight distinct symptom clusters in patients with kidney failure, with gastrointestinal problems being the most frequent. Treatment strategies targeting symptom clusters may provide more benefit than those targeting individual symptoms. METHODOLOGY: Recent studies have shown that patients with kidney failure experience a concurrent occurrence of several symptoms…Read More

TOPLINE: Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) combined with lifestyle changes leads to significant weight loss and improves liver health in patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and obesity over 72 weeks. METHODOLOGY: A prospective randomized trial was conducted in four centers in Spain from April 2018 to December 2020 to assess the effectiveness and safety of […]

Results from the British COLO-DETECT trial add to the growing body of evidence supporting the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-aided colonoscopy to increase premalignant colorectal polyp detection in routine colonoscopy practice. Colin J. Rees, a professor of gastroenterology in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne…Read More

TOPLINE: For patients with migraine who visit the emergency department (ED), intravenous (IV) chlorpromazine provides superior pain relief at 2 hours and IV metoclopramide combinations are effective in avoiding rescue medications, a Bayesian network meta-analysis suggests. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis of 64 randomized controlled trials from MEDLINE…Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – -Alcoholic drinks should carry a label warning consumers about their cancer risks, the U.S. Surgeon General said in an advisory on Friday, noting that their consumption increases the risk of developing breast, colon, liver and other cancers. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy also called for the guidelines on alcohol consumption limits to […]