Mailing educational brochures before appointments led to a 29.5% deprescribing rate, compared to 25.8% in controls, suggesting a simple intervention can significantly shift medication management.
Patients with both obesity and diabetes saw a 2.53-fold increase in hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence beyond five years post-surgery, highlighting the critical impact of these comorbidities on long-term outcomes.
Study reveals 37.9% of single emerging adults are relatively happy, challenging stereotypes and highlighting the crucial role of friendship satisfaction in their well-being.
In adults with metabolic syndrome, reducing sedentary time by 40 minutes per day prevented the worsening of back pain over 6 months, while pain intensity approximately doubled in the control group.
A consensus panel of medical education experts identified 36 nutrition competencies recommended for inclusion in undergraduate and graduate medical education curricula in the U.S.
A meta-analysis of 99 randomized controlled trials reveals vitamin D supplementation significantly improved cardiometabolic risk factors, with more pronounced benefits observed in non-Western populations, individuals with lower baseline 25[OH]D levels, and those with lower BMI.
"As prescription opioids increasingly became involved in U.S. overdose deaths, the proverbial pendulum swung widely, and many clinicians and health systems inflexibly began refusing to offer opioids for pain."
Eighty FCCs had properties that warrant further investigation for potential health concerns, such as carcinogenic, mutagenic, and reproductive toxicity.