If things do happen in threes, hopefully this will be the last bump in the road to a COVID treatment and a vaccine. Eli Lilly and Company has had to halt its government-sponsored phase 3 trial of an antibody treatment for COVID-19 for safety reasons. The treatment had garnered a lot of interest after President
Children who had a single episode of moderate/severe diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and were newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes had a subtle decline in a long-term memory task when they were tested a few months later in a new study. And other children with a known diagnosis of type 1 diabetes who had repeated DKA
What if you could get researchers, government policy-makers, pharmaceutical companies and the public together in one room to sit down and create a single shared vision for the world in 20+ years’ time where nobody gets a late stage diagnosis? Then once we’ve all agreed on what it looks like – how do we get
“911. How can I help you?” That’s the reassuring voice you hear if you telephone for help in a medical emergency. The 911 operator and the responding emergency services team will help you as best they can, but there are things you can do to help them do their job. In fact, how you call
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Oct. 14, 2020 — Barron Trump, the 14-year-old son of President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, tested positive for COVID-19, the first lady revealed in a post on the White House website Wednesday. Since then he has tested negative,
Meal kit delivery services have been gaining popularity in recent years, and it’s no wonder why. It sure is convenient to have all the premeasured ingredients, all ready to prepare the predetermined recipe delivered to you every week, cutting down on both time and food waste. Recently, I reviewed several meal kits from Home Chef,
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 14 2020 A new study summarizes over 30 years of clinical experience in the treatment and management of glutaric acidemia type 1 (GA1), a rare and potentially devastating metabolic disorder caused by variants in the GCDH gene. The study followed the clinical course of 168 individuals with GA1 who were
Oct 14 2020 Irvine, CA (10/09/2020) – Advantech announced today that MIC-730AI, Edge AI Inference System based on NVIDIA Jetson® Xavier has received a 2020 IoT Edge Computing Excellence Award from IoT Evolution World, the leading web site covering the Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace. This award recognizes the companies emerging as leaders in the
Bill Gates worries about the implications of the baseless anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories targeting him and Dr. Anthony Fauci that have emerged during the coronavirus pandemic, telling CNBC they can erode confidence in public health strategies. In an interview that aired Wednesday on “Squawk Box,” Gates said the false claims about him and Fauci, the nation’s
For breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT), long-term oncologic outcomes for immediate breast reconstruction with nipple- or skin-sparing mastectomy were comparable to total mastectomy without reconstruction, a case-control study from Korea found. In a propensity score-matched analysis involving nearly 650 patients, no significant differences were seen at a median 5.5 years follow-up between the
You can’t talk about the emergence of sublingual immunotherapy in the U.S. without mentioning Dr. David Morris (1929-2017), a true innovator in allergy. When traditional allergy treatment didn’t work for his patients, he didn’t tell them to give up and live with their symptoms — he changed the narrative on what allergy treatment could and
Do you often lose concentration and find yourself devoid of energy in the afternoon? If so, you’re not alone – but there are ways to boost both your vitality, and your productivity… Come 3pm, and most of us are seriously flagging. Our energy levels are low, our brains are foggy, and yet there are still
It might be time to put the gloves on again. And turn up the thermostat. That is especially good advice for residents of states including Texas, California and Wisconsin, where recorded cases of coronavirus have risen to more than 18,000 in the past seven days. The reason? New data suggests that the hotter a surface
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As COVID-19 numberssoared across the country this spring, tribal nations began closing their reservation boundaries to non-residents. The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux erected checkpoints on roads entering their reservations in order to protect their citizens, even as the state
Lung cancer cells. Credit: LRI EM Unit It started with a challenge. Or 7 to be exact, 7 challenges we issued to the global research community, challenges that scientists, doctors and people affected by cancer all agreed would help us make the radical process we need to beat cancer. Challenges that launched our most ambitious
More than 50% of older adults hospitalized with heart failure are sent home with a pharmacy’s worth of medications that not only may be unnecessary, but may cause adverse interactions, according to a new study. Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center found that heart failure patients 65 years and older are
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. This story was updated Oct. 13, at 4:05 p.m. Oct. 13, 2020 — Johnson & Johnson paused dosing and enrollment in all of its COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials due to an unexplained illness in a study participant, the company announced Monday. Later in
This content originally appeared on diaTribe. Republished with permission. By Mary Barna Bridgeman SGLT-2 inhibitors can protect your heart! This type of medicine is recommended for people with type 2 diabetes who have heart disease or risk factors related to heart disease. Learn about the use of these medicines, including side effects, their effect on
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 13 2020 Nine years ago, Nina Porter gave birth in a hospital bed with one of her ankles chained to the frame. Corrections officers stood watch as Porter held her daughter, Gianna, to her chest for the first time. Back at a nursery inside Indiana Women’s Prison, Gianna slept in
NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Avenue Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATXI) (“Avenue”), a company focused on the development of intravenous (“IV”) tramadol for the U.S. market, today announced it has received a Complete Response Letter (“CRL”) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) regarding the Company’s New Drug Application (“NDA”) for IV
Apple has made some bold moves into health care, a market worth trillions globally. Most recently, it announced a blood oxygen sensor on the Apple Watch Series 6 and a partnership with the Singaporean government to incentivize Apple Watch users to be more healthy. But the company’s strategy is a bit elusive as it walks
Medicare open enrollment is upon us for 2021. If you are a Medicare recipient, this is the time of year when you can make (some) changes to your Medicare coverage. What can I change? You can change your Medicare part D (drug) plan. You can change to a different Medicare advantage plan. You can switch
Shane Shapiro, M.D., orthopedic physician at Mayo Clinic in Florida, discusses a regenerative medicine clinical research trial to treat knee arthritis, which is the bone marrow stem cell treatment (BMAC) for knee osteoarthritis. Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Center for Regenerative Medicine is studying biologically based non-surgical treatments for osteoarthritis. One such treatment is the
Kids whose mothers had depression and anxiety during pregnancy were at a greater risk of asthma in later childhood, according to a prospective cohort study based in the Netherlands. Mothers who experienced stress or depression while pregnant had children with a 46%-91% increased risk of asthma later on (range OR 1.46 [95% CI 1.12-1.90] to
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Johnson & Johnson paused the phase III trial of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate due to an “unexplained illness” in one of the participants. From March to August, the U.S. recorded 20% more deaths than expected, with COVID-19 being the documented reason in two-thirds of cases. (JAMA)
Please be aware this article contains details that some readers may find distressing. In 1981, I was sexually abused by the restaurant owner who befriended my family on a holiday overseas. I was nine years old. I had no idea what had happened to me that night, or that it was going to be a
Shortly after President Trump touted Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ experimental antibody cocktail treatment for COVID-19 as a “cure,” both Regeneron and Eli Lilly and Company applied to the U.S. government to open their antibody treatments to the public. The two companies’ drugs work similarly. Neither company has finished its clinical trials yet, but both argue that the
Switching patients with HIV from a protease inhibitor–based antiretroviral therapy regimen to an integrase inhibitor–based regimen can be performed safely, with maintenance of high levels of virologic suppression and improvements in both bone mineral density and renal function biomarkers, data from a randomized trial indicate. Among 212 women with successful HIV virologic suppression following 48