Clinical factors such as history of solid organ transplantation, presence of diabetes, history of other malignancies, and poor histologic differentiation were significant risk factors for recurrence of cutaneous SCC in Asian patients treated with Mohs surgery.
The United States routinely outspends other high-income countries on prescription drugs because of the lack of price controls or negotiation by government health care systems.
Running for physical fitness or recreation is associated with a 27% decrease in the risk for all-cause mortality, a study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests.
Researchers were able to induce doctors’ beliefs about the thermedol treatment and showed that those beliefs were transmitted to patients through subtle shifts in facial expressions and possible changes in attentiveness between treatments.
Banning the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was associated with an overall reduction in the intake of sweetened beverages as well as significant reductions in waist circumferences of university employees who regularly drink beverages with added sugar.
Symptoms of depression are associated with oral contraceptive use in 16-year-old girls compared with adolescents and young women up to 25 years of age.
Adults in the United States have reduced their intake of refined carbohydrates and increased their intake of complex carbohydrates, plant protein, and polyunsaturated fat from 1999 to 2016, a study in JAMA reports. Nutrition researchers performed a serial cross-sectional analysis of 24-hour dietary recall data taken from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Only…
There is a substantial burden, unawareness, and undertreatment of several systemic comorbidities—particularly cardiovascular and psychiatric—in patients with HS.
In this study, 71% of the breaches compromised sensitive demographic or
financial information that may be used for fraudulent purposes.
Daily liraglutide, in addition to metformin and insulin, reduces HbA1c and improves glycemic control in young patients with type 2 diabetes.
