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Malaria vaccine gets special delivery by tiny health personnel
Plus: Sleeping and sweating the years away and dragon-sized embezzling from a cancer charity.
Food for Thought
Glucocorticoid-Induced Bone Loss: Dietary Supplementation Recommendations to Reduce the Risk for Osteoporosis and Osteoporotic Fractures
This review details the risks for osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures in the setting of topical, intralesional, intramuscular, and systemic...
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Meet our newest genetically engineered frenemy, herpes
Plus: Cooking and cleaning your way to air pollution, dying to become a tree, and thawing out “COVID-frozen” goals.
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Apremilast may have some cardiometabolic benefits in patients with psoriasis
The trial does help answer the question of whether apremilast can induce weight loss ... something that earlier trials suggested.
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Early bird gets the worm, night owl gets the diabetes
Plus: Sweating for mosquito science, sharing genes with zebrafish, and sharing vomit with synanthropic flies.
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Brodalumab suicide risk similar to other biologics, postmarket study finds
The researchers extracted data through the end of 2021 on the number of completed suicides for brodalumab and ten other biologics approved for...
Commentary
Quiet quitting: Are physicians dying inside bit by bit? Or setting healthy boundaries?
Quiet quitters believe that it is possible to have good boundaries and yet remain productive, engaged, and active within the workplace.
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‘Dr. Caveman’ had a leg up on amputation
Plus: Walking your way to a quieter baby, lending a nose to Parkinson’s research, and identifying the office flirts.
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Targeted anti-IgE therapy found safe and effective for chronic urticaria
Two phase 3 trials associated ligelizumab with efficacy comparable to omalizumab, an approved CSU therapy.
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FDA warns of cancer risk in scar tissue around breast implants
This issue differs from breast implant–associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, a known risk among implant recipients.
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One fish, two fish, are good fish for you ... fish
Plus: The secret lives of Vikings’ parasites, the first truck to perform a vasectomy, and the benefits of random-but-not-quite noise.