Food and drink advertisements on video game live-streaming platforms (VGLSPs) such as Twitch are associated with a greater preference for and consumption of products high in fat, salt, and/or sugar (HFSS) among teenagers, according to research presented on May 12, 2024, at the 31st European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy. The presentation by Rebecca…
Ash Panakam is about to graduate from Harvard Medical School. She’s from Georgia and always assumed she would return to the South for her residency. But the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning the nationwide right to abortion changed everything. “Ultimately I shifted my selection pretty drastically,” she said. “I was struggling to find a residency…
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You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money in medicine. Sign up to get it in your inbox every Monday. We did something a little different for this issue: We wanted to share some of the stories that explain the machinations of the U.S. health care…
Concerns have been raised over the risk assessment carried out for the NHS long term workforce plan, with a senior doctor accusing NHS England of not putting enough consideration into the impact the plan would have on staff. The risk assessment, obtained through a freedom of information request, shows that NHS England outlined 12 risks…
Unexpected abnormal outgrowth in s7-iPIC grafts is outside the pancreatic lineage and continues to proliferate after implantation. (A) Schematic representation of s6-iPIC and s7-iPIC differentiation and subcutaneous implantation using fibrin gel. (B–G) Cell implantation experiments in streptozotocin-injected and normal NOD-scid mice. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320883121 A team of…
Many programs ‘deeply entrenched in school culture’ are harmful to children and can cause potentially lasting damage, psychologists have warned. They say these practices, from abstinence-only sex education to zero tolerance policies, can direct considerable funds away from evidence-based strategies, as well as giving pupils misleading information. In new book Investigating School Psychology, researchers have…
Treatment options for individuals with early-stage hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) vary depending on patient preference and how clinicians define “early” HS. This can be challenging, because to date, no FDA-approved treatments exist for early-stage HS, and only two biologics exist for moderate to severe disease. “For someone with occasional nodules and abscesses, we often use antibiotics…
The emerging class of therapies that treat disease by using the cellular process of protein degradation focused first on cancer. But this approach also has potential applications in immunology, and Lycia Therapeutics is among the companies taking protein degradation in this direction. The startup now has $106.6 million to advance its research into clinical testing….
The head of Ireland’s only postgraduate programme for physician associates (PAs) has described as ‘somewhat bizarre’ a call from the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) for the profession to not be accredited by the Medical Council. Prof Lisa Alexander said she was surprised by a recent motion passed by the IMO for PAs not to be…
