Kangaroo Mother Care Shows Mortality Benefits for Preterm, Low-Weight Infants
WEDNESDAY, June 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Kangaroo mother care (KMC) provides a mortality benefit, especially when initiated early, in preterm and low birth-weight infants, according to a review published online June 5 in BMJ Global Health.Sindhu Si…
Learn MoreSemaglutide Better Than Liraglutide for Post-Bariatric Surgery Weight Recurrence
WEDNESDAY, June 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Semaglutide is associated with superior weight loss for treating post-metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) weight recurrence compared with liraglutide, according to a study published in the May issue of Obe…
Learn MoreYouth LGBTQ-Specific Mental Health Services Lacking
WEDNESDAY, June 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Just over one in four youth-serving U.S. mental health facilities offered lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ)-specific mental health services in 2020, according to a research letter published …
Learn MoreFDA Approves Lynparza for BRCA-Mutated Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Lynparza (olaparib) with abiraterone and prednisone (or prednisolone) for adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA-mutated, metastatic, castr…
Learn MoreASCO: Germline Testing Underused in Cancer Patients
TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Few patients diagnosed with cancer between 2013 and 2019 in California and Georgia underwent germline testing, according to a study published online June 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to…
Learn MoreASCO: Direct Oral Anticoagulant Therapy Feasible for Cancer Patients
TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) treatment is noninferior to low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) for preventing recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) in cancer patients, according to a study published online …
Learn MoreLow-Dose Atropine Treatment Slows Pediatric Myopia Progression
TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Low-dose atropine treatment reduces pediatric myopia progression compared with placebo over three years of treatment, according to a study published online June 1 in JAMA Ophthalmology.Karla Zadnik, O.D., Ph.D…
Learn MoreCertain Factors Increase Risk for UTIs After Radical Hysterectomies
TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Smoking and using a catheter for more than seven days postsurgery significantly increase the risk for catheter-associated urinary tract infections after radical hysterectomies for cervical cancer, according to…
Learn MoreFDA Warns Against Using Bogus Treatments for Molluscum
MONDAY, June 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Patients may be tempted to treat little skin bumps on their own, but that can delay proper diagnosis and treatment that may work better, federal regulators caution.
Products marketed as treatments for molluscum…
Chinese Company May Help Ease U.S. Shortage of Cancer Drug
MONDAY, June 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — With the United States facing a high number of drug shortages, a Chinese company may help to boost the supply of one in particular, the chemotherapy agent cisplatin.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is wor…