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New cancer screen, same issues: Physicians confront Galleri test
“Cancer screening is a very complicated issue. Being honest, the tests are good but are not ready yet [for wider use].”
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Buzz kill: Lung damage looks worse in pot smokers
Emphysema was significantly more common among smokers (75%) than among nonsmokers, a new study finds.
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Med groups urge feds to protect physicians from anti-trans violence
Not only do the threats bully physicians providing gender-affirming care and the patients who receive that care, but “they have also disrupted...
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Physician bias may prevent quality care for patients with disabilities
Many physicians report being ill-equipped to treat people with physical and cognitive disabilities, and some said they try to avoid doing so, a...
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Patients with cancer get valuable second opinion for free
Research shows that getting a second opinion can significantly change the course of a patient’s disease and treatment.
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Weight-loss surgery has a big effect on marriage
The person who had surgery may feel unsupported in the new journey if the partner keeps advocating for unhealthy habits. And the person who didn’t...
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HPV testing plus cytology catches two times more cervical lesions
Research suggesets that hrHPV testing is the “best strategy for a timely diagnosis of CIN2+ lesions while avoiding overtreatment” of young women...
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Large analysis confirms safety of nipple-sparing mastectomy
The authors found that overall survival and breast cancer–specific survival were similar for women undergoing nipple-sparing mastectomy and those...
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Tiny worms sniff out early-stage pancreatic cancer
There is a huge need for research like this that explores strategies to detect pancreatic cancer early, but it’s far too soon to tell how, or if,...
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Alcohol ups risk for atrial fibrillation episode hours later
“The more alcohol consumed, the higher that risk.”
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Med student kicked out for microaggression dustup sues school
Mr. Bhattacharya claims the unraveling of his medical training was because of questions he asked at a UVA-hosted panel on microaggressions. The...
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ED docs are cleaning up the messes of medical tourism
“It’s unfairly shifting routine outpatient surgical followup (and liability) onto me and extra cost to [the patient].”
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Injectable monoclonal antibodies prevent COVID-19 in trial
The cocktail of casirivimab and imdevimab reduced the relative risk of infection by 72% in patients at high risk of infection.
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Midodrine reduces fainting in young patients
The absolute risk reduction for vasovagal syncope was 19 percentage points in a new study.
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Married docs remove girl’s lethal facial tumor in ‘excruciatingly difficult’ procedure
This patient was much like the cases they treat every day, only “several orders of magnitudes greater,” Dr. Waner said. “On a scale of 1 to 10 she...