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When it comes to alcoholic drinks that have surprising health benefits, red wine has always been the most popular one. But did you know that beer also has its own share of secret health benefits? Is Beer Healthy? People usually see beer as a guilty pleasure and associates it with beer belly, weight gain and other negative side effects.

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. It was supposed to be a turning point in the coronavirus pandemic for Erin Tokley, a longtime Philadelphia police officer, Baptist minister and 47-year-old father of three. It was supposed to be the day of his vaccine appointment. Instead it was

“We knew it would be a lot of money, but I thought we’d be spending less.” — Heather Vallier, MD, of MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, on her team’s study that showed the total cost of care for treating gunshot victims at the trauma center over a 27-month period was over $18 million. “This is

In the early days of the pandemic, scientists have already established that the younger population is not really affected by COVID-19 because of the difference in their immune system compared to adults. However, children are still at risk since they can get infected with the novel coronavirus. This urged government leaders and medical experts to

A novel liquid biopsy test has been shown to distinguish between patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who have benign plexiform neurofibroma (PN) precursor lesions from patients who have malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST), say authors of a multi-institutional cross-sectional study. “Transformation from PN to MPNST is challenging to detect by imaging…or by biopsy…which

As children return to school this year –- the third academic year to be affected by COVID – many parents, carers and teaching staff are worried about their safety from infection. They will also be concerned about the impact the pandemic has had on their academic progress and their mental health. For children, the return

A “quadpill” containing quarter doses of four blood pressure (BP)-lowering medications was more effective than monotherapy for initial treatment of hypertension, with similar tolerability, in the 1-year, phase 3 QUARTET randomized, active-control trial. Clara Chow, MD, PhD, academic director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre, University of Sydney, Australia, presented the findings in a late-breaking trial

More than two-thirds of U.S. female orthopedic medical trainees said they experienced sexual harassment on the job, and current residents are experiencing the same level of abuse as veteran physicians did years ago, a researcher reported. In a 2019 online survey to 682 members of the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society — a support and networking

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) that occurs as part of the rare adverse reaction to the adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccines from Astra Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson is much more severe and associated with greater mortality and disability than sporadic CVT,

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Serious health risks were no more common in the first 3 weeks after Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccination compared with 22-42 days later, a first-of-its-kind study of more than 6 million people reveals. mRNA vaccination was not associated with greater risks

About one in 10 patients undergoing hernia repair surgery expressed misgivings afterward, with no obvious reason, researchers found. So, what might be the unobvious reasons? That was the question Ryan Howard, MD, and colleagues at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor sought to address, though their initial attempt to pierce the mystery fell short

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A large, real-world test of face masks in Bangladesh shows that masks work to reduce community spread of COVID-19. It also shows that surgical masks are more effective than cloth face coverings. The study, which was published ahead of peer review,

From face masks to hand sanitizers and disinfecting sprays, there’s no shortage of “essential items” that are being marketed as able to help protect us from COVID-19. According to experts, another item that people should add to their list of essentials is an air purifier. The best air purifiers can help a lot in eliminating dust, pollen, smoke and other

Greater short-term variability in systolic blood pressure after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is associated with an increased risk for long-term disability, new research suggests. A pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials indicated that each 10 mmHg increase in standard deviation of systolic blood pressure variability was associated with an 18% increase in the likelihood of functional

An FDA advisory committee offered up lower vector doses, stricter exclusion criteria, and long-term animal studies to grapple with liver toxicities associated with adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-based gene therapies. During the second of four sessions on AAV safety, the Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee (CTGTAC) weighed evidence of hepatotoxicity — ranging from liver

Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, most U.S. healthcare systems were compelled to swiftly shift to virtual care in order to accommodate patients. However, now that most facilities have opened to the public, the focus has mainly switched back to in-person treatment. This means health systems are now faced with the task of further developing and

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Top federal health officials have told White House officials that the plan to offer COVID-19 booster shots later this month may need to be limited at first, according to The New York Times . FDA and CDC leaders said that third

Prisons and jails have hosted some of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S., with some facilities approaching 4,000 cases. In the U.S., which has some of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the world, 9 in 100 people have had the virus; in U.S. prisons, the rate is 34 out of 100. I study

In patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis (UC), treatment with vedolizumab leads to better histologic outcomes than treatment with adalimumab, according to findings from the VARSITY trial. The findings come from an analysis in Gastroenterology of prespecified histologic exploratory endpoints from the phase 3, multicenter, randomized, controlled VARSITY trial, which was the first head-to-head comparison of

WASHINGTON — COVID booster shots are showing good efficacy in Israel, Anthony Fauci, MD, chief medical advisor to President Biden, said Thursday at a briefing held by the White House COVID-19 Response Team. Researchers have found that, even with the country’s very high vaccination rate, “we see new PCR-positive infections and new severe COVID cases

While more and more people are getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the US’ daily infection rate is on the rise, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommend the continued use of face masks whether they are vaccinated or not. The Delta Variant According to the CDC, the Delta variant is currently the predominant strain of the coronavirus in

Last year, Katherine Gill, MD, an HIV prevention researcher in Cape Town, South Africa, realized how jaded she’d become to vaccine research when the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine came back as 95% effective. In her career conducting HIV clinical trials, she’d never seen anything like it. Even HIV prevention methods she had studied that had worked,

In 2015, my collaborators and I published a scientific paper about a chicken virus you have likely never heard of. At the time, it got some media attention and has been cited by other scientists in the years since. But now, by late-August 2021, the paper has been viewed more than 350,000 times – and

A safe and minimally invasive implanted stimulation device is getting mostly positive reviews from neurosurgeons, with some experts saying it represents a “paradigm shift” in the treatment of mechanical low back pain. Results from a multicountry study show that the ReActiv8 device (Mainstay Medical Limited) is efficacious, improving function and reducing pain for up to

Paralympian swimmer Jessica Long was born with bilateral fibular hemimelia, a congenital shortening or absence of the fibula. If you watched any of the Tokyo Olympics, you were no doubt moved by a commercial from Toyota that featured Long, depicting a phone call to her parents about a baby they are going to adopt from

Did you know that there are over 100 trillion microorganisms in our body? Most of these microorganisms are gut-living good bacteria that work to fight off the bad bacteria and restore balance in our bodies to make us feel better. Unfortunately, there are times when our gut becomes unbalanced with unhealthy levels of certain bacteria causing

A team of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic, the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is zeroing in on a way to personalize radiation therapy for cancer patients based on genomic profile, much as genomics is used to tailor oncologic drug therapy. It’s called “genomic-adjusted radiation dose” (GARD), a

For years, people have enjoyed drinking energy drinks, especially after an intense workout to “replenish” their lost electrolytes. But what are electrolytes? These are minerals (calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, chloride, phosphate) that help maintain our body’s ionic balance. When we exercise, we sweat a lot, so we need to replenish the electrolytes lost to avoid dehydration and exhaustion. When we exercise, we end up