New Symptoms ID’d That May Indicate Pancreatic Cancer
Additional symptoms can be used to update QCancer, a risk prediction model that helps physicians identify patients at high risk for cancer
Muscle Mass Tied to Vasomotor Symptoms in Women at Menopause
Authors say health care providers should consider screening menopausal women without hot flashes for age-related loss of muscle mass
Number of Elderly on U.S. Liver Transplant List Rising
Outcomes for elderly patients receiving liver transplants also improving
Bariatric Surgery May Cut Risk for Adverse Outcomes in NASH
Risk for adverse liver and cardiovascular outcomes lower among patients with obesity and advanced fatty liver who undergo bariatric surgery
FDA Approves Virtual Reality System to Ease Back Pain
EaseVRx system uses number of cognitive behavioral therapy methods to achieve pain relief
FDA Could Approve Pfizer Booster Shots for All Adults This Week
More than 30 million Americans have already gotten booster shots
White House to Spend Billions to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Supply
The goal of the plan is to produce at least 1 billion doses a year beginning in the second half of 2022
CDC Investigating Case of Monkeypox in Traveler From Nigeria
Symptoms of monkeypox are similar to but milder than symptoms of smallpox
CDC: More Than 100,000 Americans Died From Drug Overdoses in One Year
Figure is almost 30 percent higher than the previous year, when 78,000 overdose deaths were reported
Smoking Linked to Fatal Event as First Sign of CVD
Smoking associated with earlier onset of cardiovascular disease, by 5.1 years for men and 3.8 years for women
