Image sourced from Startup Bonsai You already know how powerful social media and social media platforms are. After all, there are billions of people using them, around 4.59 billion in 2022 and that number is expected to grow to 5.85 billion by 2027. That’s the majority of the world’s population within reach of any and […]

Some Doctors OK With Lower Pay Doctors say some lower-paying jobs have rewards and benefits that outweigh the cost. Lower-paid medical jobs include those in rural areas, at Medicaid practices, or in public health compared with private practice, which pays higher. But private-pay physicians may have to work longer hours or face pressure to see […]

Please can you introduce yourself and tell us about your professional background as well as your current role at Asthma + Lung UK? I have been a GP for 18 years and work with Asthma + Lung UK as their Clinical Lead. I support different parts of the charity by ensuring its work is medically […]

PHILADELPHIA – The first consensus screening guidelines for patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) provide recommendations on risk stratification for individuals, basic and enhanced screening protocols, and screening frequency. The recommendations, issued by the International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies Group (IMACS), stratify cancer risk for individual patients into low, intermediate, or high categories based […]

Nov 11 2022 Since their first publication in 2010, the EULAR recommendations for the use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic treatments (DMARDs) in people with RA have become a most important publication in the field, and their updates are relied upon by many healthcare professionals, professional organizations and other stakeholders to offer an up-to-date and robust analysis […]

Why would you want content contributed by outside experts anyways? Here are just a few benefits you gain from outsourcing content generation: You take some of the workload off of your internal team, allowing them to focus on content optimization versus content creation. You’ll gain ideas and concepts that you wouldn’t come up with on […]

Children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to be treated for middle ear infections and are likely to experience serious complications from the condition — potentially with lifelong economic consequences — researchers have found. Problems such as hearing loss and chronic ear infections were more common for children who lived in areas marked by […]

Today we are surrounded by artificial chemicals, both those introduced deliberately and those that contaminate the environment inadvertently as a consequence of their use in other applications. Study: Effects of mercury exposure on fetal body burden and its association with growth of infants. Image Credit: SciePro/Shutterstock Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) are of special concern, especially when […]

The successful treatment of Pompe disease in utero for the first time may be the start of a new chapter for fetal therapy, researchers said. A report published online November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine describes in utero enzyme-replacement therapy (ERT) for infantile-onset Pompe disease. The patient, now a toddler, is thriving, […]

In a recent study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers assessed the effect of fenofibrate on acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Study: A randomized clinical trial of lipid metabolism modulation with fenofibrate for acute coronavirus disease 2019. Image Credit: luchschenF/Shutterstock Background Past studies have shown that the cytotoxicity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) […]