Worsening emotional health and increased prevalence of pain are the main causes of the decline in Canadians’ functional health from 2015 to 2024, says Statistics Canada.
Patients needing interpreters wait longer for evaluation in the emergency department; a study highlights delays in care initiation and potential inequities in treatment.
After sleeve gastrectomy, carotid intima-media thickness and multiple inflammatory, lipid, oxidative, and fibrinolytic markers decline, with oxidized LDL levels predicting carotid thickening.
The first RCT of microaxial flow pump support in high-risk PCI shows no benefit for Impella and some harm. John Mandrola, MD, ...
Performed with favorable safety, the diagnostic yield for coronary function testing in patients with ischemia but nonobstructive arteries was found to exceed 90%.
A subgroup analysis of the VASALIUS-CV trial showed evolocumab significantly cut LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular event risk in people with diabetes but no known atherosclerosis.
The landscape of topical therapies for melasma is evolving quickly as a steady stream of new agents becomes available, offering alternatives to traditional frontline strategies, a dermatologist told ...
At 52 weeks, the 30-mg daily oral dose of brepocitinib outperformed the 15-mg dose in a study of patients with dermatomyositis resistant to previous treatments.
CM? Drs Kevin Alexander and Ronald Witteles make the case for rethinking how we manage arrhythmias in this disease.
The European regulator recommends granting pediatric use marketing authorization for Bopediat to treat children with oedema ...
A population-based, prospective cohort study conducted in China finds that lung cancer risk remains low until 3 years after a negative low-dose CT screen.
In patients with GERD, dominant symptom intensity is a simple patient-reported measure that identifies the most burdensome ...