Small amounts of vigorous exercise linked to reduced risk for cancer
Jul 28, 2023
Four to five minutes of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity daily was linked to a decrease in total and physical activity-related cancers.
Adherence to Mediterranean diet linked to lower risk for mortality
Jun 04, 2024
Reduction in risk is partly explained by multiple cardiometabolic factors, including small molecule metabolites, inflammatory biomarkers
Midlife inflammation tied to slowing of gait speed in later life
Jun 14, 2024
The findings occurred even among otherwise healthy adults and regardless of race or socioeconomic disadvantage.
Older adults with poor-prognosis cancers commonly have preexisting conditions
Nov 02, 2022
These preexisting conditions affect functional impairment, mobility and falls.
Report quantifies misdiagnosis of dangerous diseases in the United States
Jul 25, 2023
Total serious harms were extrapolated to affect 795,000 in the US, with 15 dangerous diseases accounting for half of the serious harms.
Donanemab slows clinical progression in early Alzheimer’s disease
Jul 17, 2023
The drug slows clinical progression at 76 weeks for those with low/medium tau and the combined low/medium and high tau pathology population.
Infection-related ventilator-associated complications may occur in fewer patients receiving amikacin.
Computer prompts could reduce empiric antibiotic use for UTI
Apr 19, 2024
A 17.4% reduction was seen in empiric extended-spectrum days of therapy, with no increase in safety outcomes.
US doctors received industry payments of $12.13 billion from 2013 to 2022
Mar 29, 2024
The greatest sum of payment was received by orthopedic surgeons, followed by neurologists and psychiatrists and cardiologists. The lowest sum of payments was received by pediatric surgeons and trauma surgeons.
Fresh, delivered produce tied to improvements in CVD risk factors
Mar 22, 2024
Significant improvements were seen for produce consumption, physical activity, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and HbA1c.