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A third phase 3 trial with the novel lipid-lowering drug, given just once every 6 months, has shown impressive LDL lowering for patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH).
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Better pain management is needed to reduce prescribed opioids, said the scientific lead of the CDC arthritis program, who believes pain is a public health issue.
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The National Toxicology Program found a link between high fluoride exposure in children and cognitive impairment, according to a draft report and systematic review.
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Although colchicine did not significantly reduce major adverse cardiovascular events after PCI, the researchers are encouraged by significant decreases in markers of inflammation vs placebo.
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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.
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Multiple reviews find IVF add-ons are on the market without sufficient evidence they improve the odds of having a baby.
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Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
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Medical tests with sex-specific reference ranges can pose a problem for clinicians with transgender patients, and specialists are calling for new standards.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Is it time to re-evaluate the Oxford Classification for IgA nephropathy? This editorial explores the issues.
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Despite progress since 2013, antibiotic resistance remains a 'significant enemy' that threatens the nation's health and global security, federal health officials say.
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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.
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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?
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"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.
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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.
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Might detection of mutations in CHEK2 be useful as a prognostic factor for patient response to treatment or potential for metastasis in breast cancer?
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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.
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A new CRISPR technology used to target a gene might be an effective way to eradicate chronic hepatitis B infection, investigators report.
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