The mental health system is increasingly reliant on psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) to meet the psychiatric needs of Medicare patients, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. We were surprised by the degree to which PMHNPs are the de facto mental health prescribers in […]

Does your Tiktok audience have a different avatar from other social media? Before I answer this question, be reminded that avatar here refers to buyer persona, a figment of your ideal audience. When I started on TikTok, I enjoyed significant engagement after months of dedication and consistency, which intrigued me. Then, it prompted my research […]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved durvalumab (Imfinzi) for use in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer. The drug, an immune checkpoint inhibitor that targets programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), is already approved for use in patients with lung cancer. The approval […]

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to characterize the force generated by contracting myotubes, precursors to skeletal muscle fiber, combining electrostimulation and analysis of wrinkles in the silicone substrate on which they are mounted. Existing methods rely on muscle mass or the expression of certain proteins, both not as strongly correlated with […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Patients with COVID-19 who experience gastrointestinal symptoms have overall worse in-hospital complications but less cardiomyopathy and mortality, according to a new study. Dr Nikita Patil About 20% of COVID-19 patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, […]

In a recent study, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and others, have characterized the new omicron variant BA.2.75, comparing its ability to evade antibodies against current and previous variants. The study, published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, suggests that BA.2.75 is not more resistant to antibodies than the currently dominating BA.5, which […]

Clinicians in Portugal say a 31-year-old man with confirmed monkeypox developed acute myocarditis roughly 1 week after the eruption of the characteristic skin lesions of the disease. “This case highlights cardiac involvement as a potential complication associated with monkeypox infection,” Ana Isabel Pinho, MD, Department of Cardiology, São João University Hospital Center in Porto, said […]

This prespecified subgroup analysis of East Asian adults who participated in a phase 3 clinical trial of belimumab added to standard therapy vs. placebo added to standard therapy for lupus nephritis shows earlier and more sustained improvement in kidney outcomes with the addition of belimumab. Lupus nephritis (LN) is a severe complication of the kidneys […]

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Psychedelics May Ease Fear of Death and Dying Psychedelics can help with positive attitudes toward death and dying and ease anxiety and depression at the end of life, according to new research. The retrospective study compared psychedelic drug experiences with nondrug near-death experiences, which are also known to alter perspectives on death and dying. Less […]