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Urgent care visits are often associated with inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics, glucocorticoids, and opioids, according to a research letter published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Not all probiotics are created equal, according to new research from North Carolina State University.

Millions of people worldwide suffer from hydrocephalus, or a buildup of excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and which recently received greater attention when Billy Joel announced his diagnosis. Treatment usually involves surgical placement of shunts to divert fluid away, but this procedure often leads to complications, infections, and multiple re-treatments.

For older adults with diabetes, there is no clear evidence to suggest that the incidence of dementia differs for those using glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) versus dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP4is), according to a study published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK's prefilled syringe presentation of Shingrix (zoster vaccine recombinant, adjuvanted) for the prevention of shingles (herpes zoster).

Around 10 million people globally live with the life-threatening virus HTLV-1. Yet it remains a poorly understood disease that currently has no preventative treatments and no cure.

Cellular senescence is a process in which the cell cycle becomes permanently arrested, thereby inhibiting cell division, proliferation and growth. Various cellular stresses, such as DNA damage, telomere shortening and oxidative stress, can trigger cellular senescence. Physiologically, cellular senescence contributes to tissue development, repair and critical biological processes such as embryogenesis, whereas, pathologically, it plays a key role in diverse conditions, including age-related disease, some cancers, Alzheimer's disease, and others.

A study by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with colleagues from Rabin Medical Center in Israel and other collaborators, suggests that even the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models can make surprisingly simple mistakes when faced with complex medical ethics scenarios.

An antibody treatment developed at Stanford Medicine successfully prepared patients for stem cell transplants without toxic busulfan chemotherapy or radiation, a Phase I clinical trial has shown.

Patients prescribed drugs to help them lose weight may experience a rebound in weight gain after halting their prescription, finds a meta-analysis published in BMC Medicine.

Heart failure patients living in the most deprived postcodes are at risk of dying six and a half months earlier than patients in the least deprived areas, according to a new study published in the journal BMC Medicine. The research also found that the disparities in risk of death and life expectancy worsened over time.

Poisonings and deaths linked to the use of the local anesthetic lidocaine have nearly tripled in the US over the past decade, finds an analysis of National Poison Data System (NPDS) reports, published online in the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine.

A new study by McMaster University researchers has found that many people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) who believe they are sensitive to gluten or wheat may not actually react to these ingredients.

Exposure to a class of synthetic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—often called "forever chemicals"—may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study led by Mount Sinai researchers. The findings were published in eBioMedicine.

For patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) treatment is associated with improved clinical outcomes compared with conventional therapies, according to a study published online July 14 in JAMA Neurology.

For adults with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (NLUTD) or interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), robot-assisted laparoscopic supratrigonal cystectomy with augmentation cystoplasty (RA-SC-AC) is feasible, according to a study published in the July issue of BJUI Compass.

A prospective cohort study examined the associations of different physical activity patterns with all-cause, cardiovascular (CV) and cancer mortality among adults with diabetes.

Matthew Leming, Ph.D., and Hyungsoon Im, Ph.D. of the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the co-corresponding authors of a paper published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, "Differential dementia detection from multimodal brain images in a real-world dataset."