Aerosmith Retires After Injury; All Zepbound Doses Now Available; Guacamole Recalled Health news and commentary gathered by staff Aug 05, 2024
NIH Loses in Court; NSYNC Member's New Diagnosis; Chief Resident Dies at 32 Health news and commentary gathered by staff Aug 02, 2024
Semaglutide May Help Smokers Quit, Study Suggests Use for diabetes tied to fewer medical visits for tobacco use disorder versus other antidiabetics Jul 30, 2024
Hint of Alzheimer's Benefit Seen With GLP-1 Drug Slower cognitive decline, less brain volume loss in early liraglutide study Jul 30, 2024
Statin Candidate Pool Shrinks if PREVENT Risk Calculator Is Put to Current Practice Fewer people using primary prevention medications expected to result in more CVD Jul 29, 2024
FDA Warns of Overdoses With Compounded Semaglutide Multi-dose vials pose complications for self-administration Jul 29, 2024
Kim Jong Un's Health Problems; Seine Olympic Event Nixed Again; Vegan Diet and Aging Health news and commentary gathered by staff Jul 29, 2024
Can App Data Link Sleep and Chronic Disease?; AI Model to Manage Diabetes Also in TTHealthWatch: a monoclonal antibody for ulcerative colitis Jul 27, 2024 podcast
FBI Probes Trump's Injury; RFK Jr. Pushes Farm Therapy; Glucose Monitor Warning Health news and commentary gathered by staff Jul 26, 2024
People Without Diabetes Make Up Growing Share of GLP-1 Users Approximately one-fourth of new users in 2023 did not have type 2 diabetes Jul 22, 2024
This Drug Class Keeps AA Amyloidosis in Check Staves off end-stage renal disease, retrospective study indicates Jul 22, 2024
Nasal Sprays for Respiratory Infections; Paxlovid in COVID Prevention Also in TTHealthWatch: diabetes in kids after COVID Jul 20, 2024 podcast
This U.S. President Was Dying, but His Doctors Zipped Their Lips Eight decades after FDR's decline and death, do White House physicians owe truth to the public? Jul 16, 2024
We've Been Here Before: The Politicization of Drug Pricing Ensuring medication access does not have to come at the cost of innovation Jul 16, 2024
Pemafibrate Takes a Small Step Forward in Diabetic Foot Ulcers After CVD Flop Signal of reduced ischemic ulceration, gangrene in PROMINENT Jul 15, 2024
COVID May Affect Type 1 Diabetes in Kids, and Not in a Good Way Clinical disease incidence jumped after infection Jul 15, 2024
Do People Buy Into Hospital-at-Home Care?; Nicotine Pouch Use Also in TTHealthWatch: preventing kidney transplant rejection Jul 13, 2024 podcast
Don't Try ARBs for Severe COVID, Trial Indicates Harms seen without any compensating survival benefit Jul 12, 2024
Diuretics for Ambulatory HF Patients With Volume Overload: Winners & Losers Three regimens compared head-to-head among abundant choices Jul 10, 2024
What Cognitive Tests Show; Pig Kidney Recipient Dies; Human Plague Case Reported Health news and commentary gathered by staff Jul 10, 2024
Tirzepatide Bests Semaglutide for Real-World Weight Loss Injectables were compared at doses approved for type 2 diabetes Jul 08, 2024
Popular Diabetes Drug Class Lowered Risk of 10 Obesity-Associated Cancers For people with diabetes, cancer risks were reduced with GLP-1s versus insulin Jul 05, 2024
Semaglutide May Be Linked to Condition That Causes Blindness Association with optic neuropathy in observational data needs further study to assess causality Jul 03, 2024
Medicare's Financial Incentives Still Falling Flat for Home Dialysis Uptake Kidney transplants did not increase either Jul 02, 2024
Many Kids Benefit From GLP-1s. What Happens When They Have to Stop Taking Them? Prepare patients early for a time when medication is no longer an option Jul 01, 2024
Aspirin Overuse; Biotypes of Depression and Anxiety Also in TTHealthWatch: medications and the liver, and managing gestational diabetes Jun 30, 2024 podcast
More Than 1 in 4 Seniors Have Asymptomatic Valve Disease Most cases were mild, and age was a predictor of disease Jun 27, 2024
A Call to Action on Gestational Diabetes Women are failed at every point, and earlier screening and later follow-up are needed, group says Jun 25, 2024
Surprisingly High Hypercortisolism Prevalence With Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Many also had adrenal abnormalities Jun 25, 2024
Low-Dose SGLT2 Inhibitor May Protect Kidneys in Youth With T1D Adolescence is a critical period in T1D, associated with hyperfiltration and high HbA1c levels Jun 25, 2024
Major Heart Events Down With Metabolic Surgery for Apnea Patients With Obesity All-cause mortality also lower compared with nonsurgical controls Jun 24, 2024
Subcutaneous C5 Inhibitor Approved for PNH Longer-acting crovalimab designed for more sustained effect and less treatment burden Jun 24, 2024
Novel Triple-Hormone Agonist Boosts Beta-Cell Function in T2D Insulin sensitivity also improved in people with obesity free of diabetes Jun 23, 2024
Automated Insulin Pump Helps Type 2 Diabetes Control SECURE-T2D trial provides pivotal findings to expand use of the Omnipod 5 System Jun 23, 2024
Trial Points to Best Practices for Inhaled Insulin in Type 1 Diabetes INHALE 3 provides insights into dosing and who might actually do worse than with a pump Jun 23, 2024
Cardiac Shockwave Device Passes Hurdle in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Question of clinical benefit beyond LVEF improvement will require larger trials Jun 21, 2024
Donald Sutherland Dies; Can Viagra Benefit Women? Insulin Supply Affected by Wegovy Health news and commentary gathered by staff Jun 21, 2024
Lupus Complications Reduced With Common Diabetes Drug Metformin benefits seen extending way beyond its glucose-lowering properties Jun 20, 2024
Large-Scale Intensive BP Intervention Proves Sustainable for CVD Prevention Community-based program reduced events regardless of age, diabetes Jun 18, 2024
Rise in Chronic Hypertension in Pregnancy While Treatment Stagnates Prevalence of condition among pregnant people doubled from 2008 to 2021 Jun 17, 2024