Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Gender-affirming care, such as testosterone therapy and chest surgery, is routinely provided to cisgender patients while legislation in more than 15 states aims to curtail clinician’s authority to provide the same interventions to transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients. According to the authors of a commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Loneliness is a bigger risk factor for heart disease in patients with diabetes than diet, exercise, smoking and depression, according to research published June 29 in the European Heart Journal,. “The quality of social contact appears to be more important for heart health in people with diabetes than the number of

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vitamin D supplements may reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attacks among people aged over 60, finds a clinical trial published by The BMJ. The researchers stress that the absolute risk difference was small, but say this is the largest trial of its kind to date, and

MedPage Today) — SAN DIEGO — Cardiovascular medications were better optimized for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) following a multifaceted intervention involving clinician and patient…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients who feel low when having a cardiac device implanted are more likely to stop taking their heart medications than those without depression, according to research presented today at ACNAP 2023, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Study author Mr. Ole Skov, a psychologist and Ph.D. student

Cells (green) becoming infected with bacteria (red). Credit: Salk Institute Worldwide, more than a million deaths occur each year due to diarrheal diseases that lead to dehydration and malnutrition. Yet, no vaccine exists to fight or prevent these diseases, which are caused by bacteria like certain strains of E. coli. Instead, people with bacterial infections

MedPage Today) — Subclinical diastolic dysfunction may be detected among adult survivors of childhood cancer before left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) becomes abnormally low, according to longitudinal echocardiographic data. Among participants…

The Florida health system has converted more than 7.3 million medication instructions without clinician intervention. The prescribing technology was able to infer missing instructions for subsets and identify high-risk medications, improving patient safety…

Childhood adversity—circumstances that threaten a child’s physical or psychological well-being—has long been associated with poorer physical and mental health throughout life, such as greater risks of developing cardiac disease, cancer, or depression. It remains unclear, however, when and how the effects of childhood adversity become biologically embedded to influence health outcomes in children…