1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (547+ words) Implementation of a nationwide tobacco cessation program could save more than 60,000 lives and $12 billion in healthcare costs in 10 years.A dynamic evaluation of the Tobacco Research and Treatment Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center also showed…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (710+ words) Girls and women who had abortions did not experience any subsequent significant increase in medication use for mental health, according to a study published by JAMA Psychiatry. Recent research on the impact of abortion on mental health has been limited,…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1314+ words) In a position statement published earlier this year, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy called for the total withdrawal of direct-to-consumer advertising for medications in the United States. The paper, published in April in the Journal of the American College…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (796+ words) Few molecules in medicine generate as much excitement — and as much noise — as peptides.Walk into any medical spa, open any luxury skin care brand’s website or scroll through a longevity-focused biohacking forum and you will…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (718+ words) When a patient with cancer tells their clinician they smoke, Andrea C. King, PhD, wants alarm bells to ring inside the exam room — figuratively speaking.“Helping patients to quit smoking should be a standard of care,” King, professor…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (378+ words) Personal care product packaging and cosmetics made with plastics and other polymers can negatively impact human health and the environment, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.Plastic production involves more than 16,000 chemicals…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (468+ words) Among adolescents who vaped, those who had vs. had not been exposed to anti-vaping advertising and heard about e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury had higher odds for attempting to quit, according to study findings.These data were published…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (56+ words) NEW ORLEANS — According to a presenter, surgeons should consider absolute risk for impactful optimization of surgical candidates vs. relative risk and hazard ratios, which lead to low-impact, access-limiting decision-making.“Relative risk is one of the most misused and…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (677+ words) Most patients with pancreatic cancer report they were never offered the opportunity to participate in clinical trials.A survey of more than 1,000 patients showed greater than 70% never received an offer to enroll, and significant disparities exist among those who did,…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (91+ words) Across 2 decades following the marketing of immunoglobulin, no new safety concerns appeared in pediatric adverse event reports associated with its use, according to data published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.“Our analysis of [FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting…...