Novità nel mondo di Medicina di Laboratorio

Hypertension affects more than one third of US adults, but achieving adequate control remains elusive. A new document fine-tunes existing approaches and suggests new strategies.
Medscape Medical News

Multiple reviews find IVF add-ons are on the market without sufficient evidence they improve the odds of having a baby.
Medscape Medical News

Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
Medscape

Medical tests with sex-specific reference ranges can pose a problem for clinicians with transgender patients, and specialists are calling for new standards.
Medscape Medical News

Finding the 'missing' people walking around with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, estimated at around 1 in 70 of the population, will require screening, but the question is how, say experts.
Medscape News UK

A rapid blood assay accurately classifies risk according to severity and suggests higher-dose antibiotics should be an early option for patients with severe sepsis whose outlook is poor, new data show.
Medscape Medical News

Donate Life America is now in partnership with a large dialysis corporation to expand living donor resources for waiting recipients on the kidney transplant list.
Medscape Medical News

Is it time to re-evaluate the Oxford Classification for IgA nephropathy? This editorial explores the issues.
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Despite progress since 2013, antibiotic resistance remains a 'significant enemy' that threatens the nation's health and global security, federal health officials say.
Medscape Medical News

Half the astronauts on the International Space Station have been held back by blurry vision, jeopardizing longer missions to Mars, and clinicians are racing to prevent the perplexing problem.
Medscape Medical News

If new technologies such as 'omics,' wearables, and next-generation imaging offer more information than the patient can, will they render the history and physical obsolete?
Medscape Reader Polls

"Dramatic" variations in the amount of active ingredient were found in compounded liquid versions of levothyroxine (LT4) in a new study. The "surprise" results are a cause for concern, say researchers.
Medscape Medical News

Risdiplam, an oral investigational agent designed to increase and sustain SMN protein levels of patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), met the primary endpoint in the pivotal part 2 of the SUNFISH trial.
Medscape Medical News

Might detection of mutations in CHEK2 be useful as a prognostic factor for patient response to treatment or potential for metastasis in breast cancer?
Laboratory Medicine

Contaminants in air, water, and food are linked directly or epidemiologically to neurologic diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders. Nanoparticle solids and endocrine disruptors are major factors.
Medscape Medical News

A new CRISPR technology used to target a gene might be an effective way to eradicate chronic hepatitis B infection, investigators report.
Medscape Medical News

Records from the births of more than 158,000 children suggest that method of birth and newborn feeding practices can influence future health.
Medscape Medical News

Use of marijuana is linked to a higher risk of stroke and hospitalization for cardiac arrhythmia in young people, two new studies suggest.
Medscape Medical News

New study suggests that a 'threshold' of weight loss must be reached after bariatric surgery to see a reduced risk of obesity-related cancer. Another indicates risk may be reduced by around 20%.
Medscape Medical News

Might plasma steroid profiles have a diagnostic role in the evaluation of subclinical Cushing syndrome?
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism