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<p>Addressing the fact that many children and adolescents have few rules and little supervision of their media use, a revised AAP statement provides pediatric health care providers with practical recommendations and advice to offer patients and their parents about safe, savvy, and sensible use of screens and the content on them.</p>
By Frederik Joelving
In this video, Brittany A. Davidson, MD, discusses navigating goals-of-care conversations in gynecologic oncology, including how to identify patients at high risk of death who might benefit from a timely goals-of-care conversation, how to have a goals-of-care conversation, and how the conversations impact clinical practice. Dr Davidson also discussed these topics during a session at The Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer titled "Navigating High Stakes Conversations in Gynecologic Oncology: Goals of Care Conversations."
A team led by UCLA researchers have validated a technique they say is the first “gold standard” for measuring atrophy in the brain’s hippocampus, an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease.
By Reuters Staff(Reuters) - The number of new drugs approved in the United States fell in 2013 compared with the previous year as fewer applications were filed, though several products for hard-to-treat diseases were approved in record time.
<p><span>Children whose mothers faced more psychosocial stressors during pregnancy have higher levels of cortisol in their hair and worse health.</span></p>
New research examines the effect of as little as 20 minutes of aerobic exercise on long-term memory.
<p>The benefits of hypothermia treatment for newborns deprived of oxygen at birth persist at age 6 and 7, according to an updated evaluation of the TOBY trial.</p>
By David DouglasNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The fecal immunochemical test (FIT) has shown efficacy over as many as four annual rounds of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, according to a large retrospective study.
By Shereen Lehman(Reuters Health) - Eating large amounts of cured meats was linked to worse symptoms among asthma sufferers, a French study found.
Seth Baum: Hello again, Cardiology Consultant audience. My name is Seth Baum. I’m a preventive cardiologist, the immediate past president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology, and I’m very happy to be here today to just chat with you once again. I wanted to mention today frankly how difficult it has been through COVID and also how we have been successful at meeting some of these challenges.
Even short delays in treatment after the onset of ischemic stroke could impact the amount of healthy life post-stroke, according to a new observational study.
This article reviews the risk factors and ocular signs of the three types of retinal vein occlusions—central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), hemiretinal vein occlusion (HRVO), and branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). Proper management and treatment plans are described for the different types of retinal vein occlusions.