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Ovarian Cancer Red Flags: What to Know to Quicken Diagnoses
Nonspecific symptoms of ovarian cancer are not reported by patients or are not investigated by primary care physicians.
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Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder Increasing Rapidly
The number of privately insured women with the disorder in the United States doubled from 2008 to 2020, with a large increase in diagnoses coming...
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AI May Help Docs Reply to Patients’ Portal Messages
A small quality-improvement study found physicians’ burden was lessened but time spent was the same.
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Risk for Preterm Birth Stops Maternal RSV Vaccine Trial
This new vaccine candidate resulted in increased preterm birth and a nonsignificant increase in neonatal death.
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Higher Prostate Cancer Rates Seen in Black Men, but Advanced Cases Similar to White Men
Pros and cons of establishing different “normal” PSA levels for different races discussed.
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Few Pediatricians Comfortable Treating Youth With OUD
A survey shows they are much more familiar with treating or counseling on alcohol, cannabis, and e-cigarettes.
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Most Sudden Infant Deaths Occur in Shared Sleep Space
At least 76% of all sudden, unexpected infant deaths happened when there were multiple unsafe sleep factors, regardless of sleep sharing status....
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Surgery Shows Longer-Term Benefits for Dupuytren Contracture
At 2 years, the success rate was maintained for surgery, but not for the other two invasive treatments.
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Bivalent COVID Vaccine Protected Children, Adolescents
Children who received an mRNA bivalent vaccine were less likely to be infected than were unvaccinated peers or those who received only monovalent...
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Night Bracing: A Good Alternative for Adolescent Scoliosis
Night bracing plus self-managed physical activity prevented curve progression of more than 6 degrees to a significantly greater extent than did...
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Vibrating Belt Receives Approval to Help Women With Osteopenia Keep Bone Strength
The device was the first approved nonpharmacologic treatment for postmenopausal women with low bone density. It has not been tested for ability to...
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Buprenorphine Slightly Less Risky than Methadone for Fetal Malformation
A study finds a small increased risk for malformations when pregnant women use methadone for opioid use disorder, but for some women, methadone...
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Autoimmune Diseases and Perinatal Depression May Share Two-Way Link
Study found women with autoimmune disease were 30% more likely to have perinatal depression. Risk was also 30% higher for the reverse scenario.
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Musculoskeletal Symptoms Often Misattributed to Prior Tick Bites
A new study finds that Ehrlichia or Rickettsia seropositivity was not linked with chronic musculoskeletal symptoms, but alpha-...
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Cluster of Eye Syphilis Cases Prompts CDC Concern
“This is the first time such a cluster has been reported in the US.”