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By Anne HardingNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The body metabolizes glucose from foods with more slowly digestible starch (SDS) more slowly and steadily than from foods with less SDS, new findings show.
The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Advisory Committee has accepted recommendations from the World Health Organization on which flu vaccines to issue next season.
Worldwide, about 1 in 8 children with tuberculosis have isoniazid-resistant disease, according to a literature review.
A new study finds that vitamin C supplements could be as effective as exercise as a lifestyle strategy for overweight and obese adult patients.
As we come up on the 1-year mark of COVID-19 restrictions, we editors at Consultant360 would like to reflect on the important content published and produced by our valuable key opinion leaders in all areas of medicine.
New research examines the effects of egg-rich diets on patients with type 2 diabetes.
Clinicians should remain vigilant for milk-alkali syndrome (MAS) in elderly patients presenting with hypercalcemia.
Autoantibodies may show up years before symptoms do in patients with primary Sjögren syndrome, according to a research letter published in the November 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The American Heart Association has updated its cardiovascular health checklist, changing its name to ‘Life’s Essential 8.’
A patient came to me in search of a primary care physician who could affirm the psychosomatic nature of most of his symptoms, thus avoiding unnecessary tests that would only exacerbate his somatic symptoms.
Researchers explored the possibility that dietary changes may be responsible for the rise of asthma and allergies in a new study.
In the second episode of Critical Observations in Pulmonary Medicine, Dr Rizzo speaks with Freda Patterson, PhD; Heather Bittner Fagan, MD, MPH; and Denise Taylor, MS, RD, regarding novel clinical interventions in cardiovascular disease, including sleep quality and smoking behavior. They also speak about the messaging around smoking cessation.
Clinicians caring for cognitively impaired patients should routinely consider depression as a possible coexisting condition.
Interest in interprofessional education (IPE) has increased over the past 30 years. As the health care industry changes its focus to more patient-centered care through collaborative practices, IPE in health care educational programs has become more predominate to meet this demand.
To evaluate the existing data on this issue, researchers developed a protocol to comprehensively identify all cohort studies that compared the risk of CKD in coffee drinkers with the risk in non-coffee-drinkers and to combine and analyze the results of these studies. 
Researchers conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis that closely examined the relationship between vitamin D levels and schizophrenia.