Early recognition of comorbidities in inclusion body myositis can avert some of the potential complications and may improve inpatient care. The full spectrum of comorbidities of inclusion body myositis (IBM) have only come into focus in the recent...
The following is a summary of “An Evaluation of Burnout Among US Rheumatology Fellows: A National Survey,” published in the September 2023 issue of Rheumatology by McGoldrick et al. Researchers performed a retrospective study to assess the prevalence of burnout and...
Early recognition of comorbidities in inclusion body myositis can avert some of the potential complications and may improve inpatient care.
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is strongly associated with gout, according to a study published online Sept. 1 in JGH Open.Osama Hamid, M.B.B.S., from the Cleveland Clinic, and colleagues investigated the association...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), a higher total vascular score (TVS) based on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging at diagnosis is associated with a greater increase in...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Health care workers who serve millions of Americans could strike Wednesday if Kaiser Permanente and union workers do not reach an agreement.More than 75,000 members of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are poised to...
The following is a summary of “An Evaluation of Burnout Among US Rheumatology Fellows: A National Survey,” published in the September 2023 issue of Rheumatology by McGoldrick et al. Researchers performed a retrospective study to assess the prevalence of burnout and...
Early recognition of comorbidities in inclusion body myositis can avert some of the potential complications and may improve inpatient care.
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is strongly associated with gout, according to a study published online Sept. 1 in JGH Open.Osama Hamid, M.B.B.S., from the Cleveland Clinic, and colleagues investigated the association...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), a higher total vascular score (TVS) based on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging at diagnosis is associated with a greater increase in...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Health care workers who serve millions of Americans could strike Wednesday if Kaiser Permanente and union workers do not reach an agreement.More than 75,000 members of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are poised to...
Determinants of obesity and diabetes are strongly linked to genetic and epigenetic variations. With the increasing prevalence of diabetes and obesity, it is imperative to understand the various factors that influence metabolic function in the body, neural pathways,...
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...
Any discussion with doctors about avoiding liability for malpractice is hampered from the start because “negligence” is a very charged term. It conjures up images of a slipshod and blundering individual and so doctors understandably immediately become resistant....
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) was once believed to be a disease limited to the skin, but current knowledge shows that it is a systemic inflammatory disorder associated with several comorbidities, such as cardiovascular disease, depression, and inflammatory arthritis,” explains Nouf Almuhanna, MD.
"When experts determine that high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes are actually good for you, you're going to feel awfully foolish!"
"You can download an app for your phone that shows how many miles you didn't walk today."
"The handle of your recliner does not qualify as an exercise machine."
Medical crowdfunding is touted for its potential to reach an unlimited number of people, the sum of whose individual donations can help achieve campaign goals for even the most daunting financial asks, such as $2.1 million to cover the cost of Zolgensma. For...
I was getting ready to sit down and write a piece on the damage that Robert F. Kennedy Jr has done to healthcare and the safety of our children, as well as his recent inflammatory racist/antisemitic comments. It was going to be an essay about how physicians need to...
To curb inflation and turbulent markets, the US Federal Reserve has marked 2023 with rising interest rates. This economic climate has many financial experts apprehensive about a possible recession. According to Bankrate’s Fourth-Quarter Economic Indicator poll of...
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