Jun 27 2025 This Week in Cardiology FDA approves triple-drug polypill, a change of opinion, a deep dive into invasive pulmonary embolism therapies, heart disease trends, and diabetes care is on fire ...

Dr. Swithers' working hypothesis is that "consuming sweet-tasting but noncaloric or reduced-calorie food and beverages interferes with learned responses that normally contribute to glucose and energy ...

Conclusions We suggest that IL-1α release from infundibular keratinocyte in response to P. acnes- mediated TLR activation is an important step in the complex natural history of the acne lesion (Figure ...

We Know Nothing About the Clitoris. That Needs to Change Do we really know what the clitoris looks like? Dr Rachel Rubin poses this question to Dr Shaniel Bowen, who conducted novel 3D modeling of ...

Gastric Acid and Bile Reflux Patients with complicated Barrett's esophagus (dysplasia and cancer) reflux significantly more gastric acid and duodenal bile into their esophagus than patients with ...

Optimization of Settings Biventricular pacing has two primary (electrical) effects on the heart; the first effect is the change in atrioventricular (A-V) interval, which influences the timing of ...

In addition to anticipating that there may be more patients presenting with psychiatric symptoms, primary care clinics should routinely assess the degree of concern about exposure-related illness ...

Discussion This analysis found strong evidence of PCV benefit against both clinical and radiologically confirmed pneumonia in the age group targeted for vaccination using 2+1, 3+0 and 3+1 schedules.

In the past, neuropathic pain has been considered refractory to opioids, but more recently, the potential of these agents in the treatment of neuropathic pain has been confirmed. [3] Tramadol is an ...

Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Max Planck Society, the Max Planck Förderstiftung, the DFG (CNMPB), EXTRABRAIN EU-FP7, as well as by EU-AIMS. The research of EU-AIMS receives support ...

Differential Diagnosis of HITT and TTP Since clinical presentation of postoperative HITT and TTP are almost identical, and TTP is not well defined as a disease entity yet, a patient with unexplained ...

For patients and their clinicians, treatment of chronic headaches can be frustrating. In two studies, investigators look at a new antidepressant, mirtazapine (Remeron), and an old remedy of last ...