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For many of us, there’s nothing more satisfying than opening a cold beer at the end of a long day. But is this habit good for our gut? Research says yes. Beer Gut Health Benefits? It might be quite surprising, but moderate beer consumption is good for your gut health. The keyword here is “moderate”. Research revealed that

New research shows that the benefits of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors on symptoms and quality of life in patients with heart failure extend to canagliflozin (Invokana, Invokamet, Janssen). Canagliflozin 100 mg daily bested placebo by a mean of 4.3 points for the primary outcome of 12-week change in the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) total

The keynote address at the recent Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health annual conference, given by Rear Admiral Susan Orsega, MSN, director of the Commissioned Corps Headquarters of the U.S. Public Health Service, focused on the role that women’s health nurse practitioners played in the COVID-19 pandemic, and identified the skills needed to better address women’s

While hiking is one of the best ways to experience nature and get time out in the sun, making a hiking equipment list to pack the right essentials is the best way to avoid getting overwhelmed and confused. Aside from ensuring that you have everything you need, you should also make sure that what you’ve packed is high-quality equipment that

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus now accounts for nearly all of the coronavirus infections globally, fueled by unchecked spread of the novel coronavirus in many parts of the world. So far, vaccines are still able to defend against serious disease and death from Delta, but scientists remain on alert. Here

A medical device delivering auditory and visual stimulation that evoke a particular brain wave pattern is an encouraging nonpharmacologic option to treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a new phase 2 proof-of-concept study suggests. “We showed daily gamma sensory stimulation is safe and well-tolerated, with beneficial effects in cognitive and functional abilities and a significant

In an observational study reported at CHEST 2021, the American College of Chest Physicians annual meeting, Hanan Ajay, a fifth-year medical student at the University of Liverpool in England, said that of 34 patients on azithromycin, nearly all had reduced infection rates compared with historical averages. In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Ajay is joined

An existing virus could become a worldwide threat amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and children are the most at risk group of catching it. Experts are worried that should the pandemic continue, outbreaks of the infection it causes in kids could be inevitable.  Mounting Risk Of Measles Outbreak The Centers for Disease Control Prevention said

A paper that was the subject of a four-page correction in 2018, and which helped inform a now-halted clinical trial of a drug for lung cancer, has been retracted following an institutional investigation concluded that one of the researchers had falsified the data in that article and at least four others. And we have learned

Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s   Coronavirus Resource Center. The proportion of hypertensive patients with blood pressure control fell substantially in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, if the data from 24 health systems is representative of national trends. The decline in blood pressure control corresponded with – and might be

Liver transplant recipients who received livers from donors treated with simvastatin (FloLipid) had a higher rate of graft survival at 3 months and 6 months, a researcher said. In a randomized phase II trial of 58 patients, a per-protocol analysis of 57 patients found 100% 90-day and 180-day graft survival rates in patients whose donors

While many people fully recover from COVID-19 after overcoming the infection, some are left with symptoms that continue to persist way after battling the disease. This phenomenon has been baffling scientists and medical experts for months. But key findings are starting to shed light on what could really be causing long COVID.  What Is Long

A new formulation of bevacizumab for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is headed for evaluation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amid controversy about a phase 3 trial. FDA approval would set bevacizumab-vikg (Lytenava) apart from formulations from compounding pharmacies currently sold for off-label ophthalmic use, said Firas M. Rahhal, MD, an associate

Local community health workers in rural China successfully treated patients with hypertension, enabling more than half to reach normal blood pressures, in a new study involving almost 34,000 patients. In the study, local health workers (known as village doctors), most of whom had minimal formal medical education and were trained with a standard protocol that

After a period of active surveillance (AS), most patients with non-intraabdominal desmoid-type fibromatosis (DTF) did not have to progress to active treatment, a researcher reported. In the GRAFITI trial at a median follow-up of 33.7 months, about 30% of patients started some form of active treatment following AS, reported Anne-Rose W. Schut, a PhD candidate

Among active-duty men who have sex with men (MSM), Black and Latino military members are at least three times as likely to be prescribed HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) than their White counterparts, according to new survey results. “In the civilian population, we see a lot of challenges and barriers to [accessing PrEP] in our high-risk

On the basis of outcomes, there was no clear winner from a trial that directly compared two modern devices used in patients undergoing percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) closure. But the devices were not interchangeable for rates of complications or leaks, according to results of the open-label SWISS APERO trial, which compared the Amplatzer Amulet

Offspring who were exposed to a type of synthetic progestogen in utero — a key ingredient now used in medication to prevent preterm birth — had an elevated risk of cancer across the lifespan, according to a population-based study. Children born to mothers who received injections of 17α-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17-OHPC) to prevent miscarriage in the

Pamela Kunz, MD, has been named the 2021 Woman Oncologist of the Year. The award is given by the Women Leaders in Oncology and was presented during their annual Leadership Empowerment and Development conference, held in October. Dr Pamela Kunz Kunz serves as the director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers at Smilow Cancer Hospital

Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) with FOLFOX led to superior patient outcomes and less toxicity than standard of care transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for patients with large, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a randomized, phase 3 trial has shown. In a group of 315 patients with unresectable tumors at least 7 cm in diameter and no macrovascular

Few rheumatoid arthritis patients whose initial experience with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors was suboptimal achieved “low disease activity” status upon switching to another biologic, whether it was another TNF inhibitor or another class of drug, researchers found. Analysis of 939 patients in the registry database formerly known as Corrona (renamed CorEvitas earlier this year)

Researchers found that there are people who are naturally resistant to COVID-19, and they could be the key to ending the pandemic.  A Promising Study On COVID Resistance A team of researchers at University College London discovered after conducting a study on hospital staff during the first wave of the pandemic that some people are

The risk of occult gastric adenocarcinoma is highly prevalent in hereditary lobular breast cancer (HLBC) families who harbor any type of CDH1 variant and this risk remains high in patients with no family history of gastric cancer, a prospective cohort study has shown. “In short, what we are putting forward with these data is that

A novel noninvasive endoscopy trial lends further support for the safety of single antiplatelet therapy after a 6-month course of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Results from the OPT-PEACE trial show that patients at low bleeding risk on aspirin or clopidogrel monotherapy for an additional 6 months after DAPT

NEW ORLEANS — Although still technically an orphan disease, hereditary angioedema (HAE) remains a popular focus for drug developers despite a half-dozen products already approved in the U.S. That was on full display at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology’s annual meeting here, with phase II studies on two investigational agents featured in

Happy hour, we’re all familiar with it, we all love it. It’s the time of the day when bars around the world offer drinks at a discount. It’s a promotion that many of us look forward to, as it enables us to have fun and let loose at less the cost after a long day of work. So you better make sure

The general public may be misinterpreting mindfulness and missing out on its benefits, according to a new study. What to know: The practice of mindfulness has gained in popularity in recent years and has been shown to effectively reduce stress and help alleviate related health disorders. Mindfulness involves two steps for mitigating stressful situations: awareness

Now that booster doses are rolling out in the country, many people are skeptical about getting additional shots that are different from the main COVID-19 vaccine they had. This is particularly true for those who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. But there is evidence that Janssen recipients will actually benefit more from getting Moderna