FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A telephone-based weight-loss coaching intervention can help overweight or obese patients with breast cancer lose weight, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of...

FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A telephone-based weight-loss coaching intervention can help overweight or obese patients with breast cancer lose weight, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In 2021, 8.2 percent of adults aged 18 to 64 years taking prescription medications reported not taking medication as prescribed due to cost, according to a June data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
The following is a summary of "Should we offer prenatal exome sequencing for intrauterine growth restriction or short long bones? A systematic review and meta-analysis," published in the APRIL 2023 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology by Mone, et al. For a study,...
The following is a summary of "Sexual functioning more than 15 years after premenopausal risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy," published in the APRIL 2023 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology by Terra, et al. Women who carry a pathogenic variant in the BRCA1/2 genes...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Stress-management interventions may help individual health care workers over the short term, according to research published online May 12 in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.Sietske J. Tamminga, Ph.D., from...
The following is a summary of "Low-dose aspirin for the prevention of superimposed preeclampsia in women with chronic hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis," published in the APRIL 2023 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology by Richards, et al. For a...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In 2021, 8.2 percent of adults aged 18 to 64 years taking prescription medications reported not taking medication as prescribed due to cost, according to a June data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
The following is a summary of "Should we offer prenatal exome sequencing for intrauterine growth restriction or short long bones? A systematic review and meta-analysis," published in the APRIL 2023 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology by Mone, et al. For a study,...
The following is a summary of "Sexual functioning more than 15 years after premenopausal risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy," published in the APRIL 2023 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology by Terra, et al. Women who carry a pathogenic variant in the BRCA1/2 genes...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Stress-management interventions may help individual health care workers over the short term, according to research published online May 12 in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.Sietske J. Tamminga, Ph.D., from...
The following is a summary of "Low-dose aspirin for the prevention of superimposed preeclampsia in women with chronic hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis," published in the APRIL 2023 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology by Richards, et al. For a...
While neuropathic pain may be difficult to diagnose, peripheral nerve surgeons now have many effective surgical options for treating nerve pain at its source. Seeing patients in the office who are suffering from chronic pain with no obvious anatomical cause can be...
This is one of a collection of stories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw” (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). As such, they are tragedies more than either mysteries or horror, and would appeal most to readers who enjoy the inexorable pull of a story arc...
Are healthcare professionals entitled to feel as badly as family members when a patient dies? As I sat with a family who decided to terminally extubate their critically ill child, I couldn’t be overwhelmed by the sadness because it wasn’t about me. As I watched the...
Disparities in pay based on gender are, unfortunately, a persistent problem in our country for all sectors, including healthcare. Women physicians have been up against the gender pay gap for decades, yet they continue to rally for equal pay. Cardiologist Yasmine S....
A Las Vegas news crew captured footage of a for-profit hospital, Valley Hospital Medical Center, refusing to treat an elderly patient who couldn’t afford payment—a process Las Vegas elected officials dubbed as “patient dumping.” Rather than assist this woman...
Cyberattacks worldwide are increasing at an alarming rate. According to cybersecurity company Check Point, the third quarter of 2022 saw a mean of beyond 1,130 global weekly attacks per business. Certain sectors, however, are more prone to data breaches. The...
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