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Causal link found between childhood obesity and adult-onset diabetes
Bigger children have increased risks for almost all subtypes of adult-onset diabetes, a Mendelian randomization study indicates.
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Oncologist stars in film and shares philosophy on death
When a New York oncologist approached the French actress and film director Emmanuelle Bercot in Manhattan, he was thinking big.
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AD outcomes improved with lebrikizumab and topical steroids
The percentage of patients who achieved the combined endpoint was more than double for the lebrikizumab plus TCS group vs. the group on TCS alone...
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Cancer clinics begin to accommodate patients demanding new cancer detection tests
Sales teams are making a big push for multicancer early detection tests.
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Cochrane Review bolsters case that emollients don’t prevent AD
But that message is being diluted by a stream of contradictory conclusions from poor-quality systematic reviews, authors say.
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A single pediatric CT scan raises brain cancer risk
"CT examinations should only be used when necessary, and if they are used, the lowest achievable dose should be applied."
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Study comparing surgical and N95 masks sparks concern
The findings are not consistent with those of many other studies on this topic.
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Will a one-dose drug mean the end of sleeping sickness?
The drug has “the potential to revolutionize treatment” for the disease.
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Study affirms shorter regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis
The findings validate the World Health Organization’s current recommendation.
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New genetic variant linked to maturity-onset diabetes of the young
The reported variant in Greenlandic Inuit individuals has the largest population impact of any previously reported variant within a MODY gene.
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Study finds chronic jet lag–like body clocks in people with HIV
The mistimed circadian phase in people living with HIV is linked to later sleep onset and earlier waking and has “important potential implications...
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New statement guides the diagnosis of pediatric anxiety
Clinicians must distinguish between normal anxiety, situational anxiety, and specific anxiety disorder. “It’s detective work.”
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Rapid action or sustained effect? Methotrexate vs. ciclosporin for pediatric AD
In the TREAT trial, 103 patients with AD (mean age, 10 years) who had not responded to topical treatment, were randomly assigned to oral...
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Online support tool improves AD self-management
The intervention, directed either at parents of children with AD or young adults with AD, “is very low cost, evidence based, easily accessible,...