Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Neurent Medical, a company pioneering innovative non-surgical interventions to treat chronic inflammatory sinonasal diseases, today announced the publication of positive 12-month results from the CLARITY clinical trial in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. This study demonstrates that treatment with Neurent Medical’s radiofrequency (RF) ablation device, the NEUROMARK system, is safe and resulted in
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Damian Di Florio, Ph.D., remembers the lightning-bolt moment five years ago when he began thinking differently about the questions scientists ask. He was a summer undergraduate student working in the lab of cardiovascular researcher DeLisa Fairweather, Ph.D., when she and another scientist gave a lecture about vitamin D. The lab’s studies
A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expert panel will meet Tuesday to consider whether to recommend approval of an investigational midomafetamine (MDMA) capsule in combination with psychological intervention for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But as the drug manufacturer, Lykos Therapeutics, inches closer to a final decision on its new drug application
Access to thrombectomy for stroke patients living in rural areas can be improved by introducing specific imaging software and a training package to remote hospitals and improving connections to the regional comprehensive stroke center, a new study showed. “Our findings suggest that this intervention has the potential to be a valuable tool for healthcare systems
LISBON, Portugal — A novel oral drug offers clinically meaningful improvements in exercise capacity in patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and reduces the burden of limiting symptoms, new data from the SEQUOIA-HCM trial reveal. Aficamten is an investigational next-generation selective cardiac myosin inhibitor that reduces left ventricular contractility…
A US teenager died of cardiac arrest after taking part in a social media challenge daring people to eat a single extremely hot tortilla chip, an autopsy revealed Thursday…
TOPLINE: Individuals with overweight and obesity who reach a weight loss plateau at around 6 months on a healthy weight loss diet may not achieve further weight reduction after switching to a different weight loss diet. METHODOLOGY: Dietary and lifestyle interventions initially result in rapid weight loss…
Este delgado dispositivo, que funciona con baterías, se llama BioButton y registra los signos vitales de los pacientes, incluidas la temperatura, y las frecuencias cardíaca y respiratoria…
Fat-enlarged axillary nodes on screening mammograms can predict the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, held May 5–9 in Boston. Jessica Rubino, M.D., from the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and colleagues used electronic medical record data from
MedPage Today) — NEW ORLEANS — A “culturally sensitive” exercise intervention led to weight loss and other benefits in African-American women with obesity at risk for diabetes, researchers reported. The program tested in the ongoing, single…