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Teens with severe obesity face a number of barriers to metabolic and bariatric surgery, a qualitative study suggests. These data suggest that a lack of understanding about metabolic and bariatric surgery along with social stigma and access challenges associated with financial difficulties contribute to limited or decreased access to metabolic and bariatric surgery, report Eric G.

New research sheds light on how different cell types behave across all intestinal regions and demonstrates variations in gene expression between these cells across three independent organ donors. Research led by Joseph Burclaff, PhD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explained that the regional differences observed in the study “highlight the importance

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many federal governments around the world established isolation rules to prevent the transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from infected individuals to others. As isolation can have a significant impact on both the economy of a country and the mental health of its citizens,

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, James Perkinson’s voice was raspy. In February, he’d just been taken off ECMO, the last-ditch life support treatment in which a machine outside the body does the work

Most autoimmune diseases are easy to diagnose but hard to treat. A paper published today in Science proposes using your unique immune cell fingerprint to rapidly identify which treatments will work for your autoimmune disease. “We analyzed the genomic profile of over one million cells from 1,000 people to identify a fingerprint linking genetic markers

The silent treatment is a refusal to verbally communicate with another person. —People who use the silent treatment may have trouble communicating pain. —When the silent treatment becomes a pattern, it can be abusive. Most of us know what it’s like to be hurt by words—the cruel ones, the insensitive ones, the ones that replay

For decades, growth charts have been used by pediatricians as reference tools. The charts allow health professionals to plot and measure a child’s height and weight from birth to young adulthood. The percentile scores they provide, especially across multiple visits, help doctors screen for conditions such as obesity or inadequate growth, which fall at the

Hereditary factors are partly responsible for childhood anxiety and depression that persists into adulthood, according to University of Queensland researchers. In the largest study of its kind in the world, the genetics of 64,641 children, aged between 3 and 18 years, were analyzed using longitudinal data from the Early Genetics and Lifeforce Epidemiology consortium. Professor

A patient suffering from a debilitating neurodegenerative disease was able to get up and walk again after being bedridden for over a year, thanks to an innovative system developed by a team of scientists at the NeuroRestore research center headed by Jocelyne Bloch, a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and Professor at University of

Interactive training programs for use at home can make the restrictions during a lockdown more bearable. The live-streaming of sports offerings allows for a significant increase in physical activity, revealed a research team from ten countries headed by the Institute of Sport Science at Goethe University Frankfurt. At the same time well-being improved compared to

So you put on extra pounds during the pandemic. Your cholesterol’s too high. Maybe you need to do a better job managing blood pressure. It can feel like a lot to tackle. But taking that first step toward better health can be as easy as … taking a first step. Literally. Just putting one foot

Sylvia Gonsahn-Bollie, MD, had such severe ‘workaholism’ that she not only worked until the day she delivered her son but was so focused on work that she missed her ob/gyn’s repeated calls to tell her that labs showed she had preeclampsia. “That explained why I was so short of breath and gaining 5 pounds a

At Whitman-Walker Health, Dr. David Fessler and his staff administer high-dose influenza vaccine to all HIV-positive and senior patients. Although the vaccine is roughly three times as expensive as standard flu vaccine, it seems to do a better job at protecting those with weakened immune systems — a major focus of the nonprofit's Washington, D.C.,

Soon after Dr. Mai Fleming finished her medical residency in the San Francisco Bay Area, she got to work on her Texas medical license. The family medicine doctor had no intention of moving there but invested nine months to master Texas medical law, submit to background checks, get fingerprinted, and pay hundreds of dollars in

A cancer diagnosis, of one form or another, will be received by 27.5 million people each year by 2040, research suggests. Four of the most common types of cancer are breast, lung, prostate and bowel cancer, however there are more than 200 types in total. With such a broad range of cancers impacting almost any

Researchers from a USC-led consortium have discovered 15 “hotspots” in the genome that either speed up brain aging or slow it down—a finding that could provide new drug targets to resist Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative brain disorders, as well as developmental delays. The research appears online today in Nature Neuroscience. “The big game-changer here

Even as a number of states see increases in new COVID-19 cases among all ages, the trend remains downward for children, albeit at a slower pace than in recent weeks, based on data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. New pediatric cases in the United States totaled 27,521 for the

Patients treated with the blood thinner edoxaban for six months after a heart valve replacement procedure experienced fewer symptomless blood clots inside the heart valve replacement than patients who were treated with two antiplatelet drugs, according to data presented at the American College of Cardiology's 71st Annual Scientific Session. However, compared with those in the

Almost half of the U.S. adult population has high blood pressure—or hypertension—and about 20% of these patients have treatment-resistant hypertension. The reason why some people are resistant to treatment has been a mystery, but new study results show that a certain gut bacterium may be an important factor. “Today, doctors treat resistant hypertension by adding

Researchers have developed a biomedical imaging system using a semiconductor detector originally developed for hard X-ray and gamma-ray space observation, and used a spectral analysis method from astronomy to take accurate images of multiple radionuclides in small animals, reports a new paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering published on April 4. Currently, fluorescent tracers are used