Demetia levels here set to reach 140,000 by 2050 How people manage their money may be able to detect Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias up to four years earlier, new research has found. The Irish study found that 71 per cent of people clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease are identified four years in advance when…
WeightWatchers announced its partnership with Personify Health to allow employers to offer the company’s business solutions to help employees access weight-related healthcare offerings, including behavioral health, medication management and virtual care. WeightWatchers for Business offers programs focused on changing behavior, including programs tailored for individuals with diabetes or those on GLP-1 medications. The company also…
Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona. Blum turned to programs mostly in states where abortion access — and, by extension, abortion training —…
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Twenty-seven years ago today, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong developed a sore throat, spiked a fever, and started to cough. Six days later, he was hospitalized; six days after that, he died of acute respiratory distress caused by viral pneumonia. Testing showed the toddler, who’d had contact with sick chickens before becoming ill, had…
Clara Munro, surgical registrar UK Let’s spare a thought for the women paving the way in male dominated specialties, writes Clara Munro A recent paper from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has gathered data confirming what many women in male dominated specialties in UK medicine have long since known: early exposure to relatable female role…
Cyberknife. Credit: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Radiotherapy can be used alongside hormone treatment, delaying the need for chemotherapy and therefore significantly protecting their quality of life for some patients with advanced prostate cancer, according to researchers from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, London. Findings from the…
A recent European Journal of Preventive Cardiology study investigated whether sedentary time (ST), light-intensity physical activity (LPA), and moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA) during childhood and young adulthood influence cardiac structure and function. Study: Accelerometer-based sedentary time and physical activity from childhood through young adulthood with progressive cardiac changes: a 13-year longitudinal study. Image Credit: Prostock-studio/Shutterstock.com…
SAN DIEGO — Approximately 10 years ago in France, high throughput screening in a series of cases suggested that vaccine-derived rubella virus was the surprising cause of persistent cutaneous granulomas, but an update at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) 2024 Annual Meeting suggests this phenomenon is not as rare as once supposed. Based on…
A shocking majority of U.S. adults are at an early, middle, or late stage of cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic (CKM) syndrome, a new study revealed. The American Heart Association recently coined the term CKM for interrelated factors that could lead to heart disease. CKM includes people who are at risk for developing CVD (cardiovascular disease)…
