GNRI outperformed serum albumin or body mass index alone in predicting OAB risk in elderly

Incidence of RTOME is 5.83 percent in patients with head and neck cancer, with significant variation seen by cancer type

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration has decided not to expand Medicare and Medicaid coverage for popular obesity drugs, blocking a Biden administration initiative that could have helped millions of Americans access the medications.Catherine Howden, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare …

Findings seen in patients with posterior circulation stroke and with no planned thrombectomy who received alteplase 4.5 to 24 hours after stroke onset

Increase in cervical artery dissection admissions was particularly high in older, Black, Hispanic populations

Machine learning model outperformed all comparators and achieved better concordance indices across myelofibrosis subgroups

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not only lost nearly a fifth of its workforce, it has also been directed to slash $2.9 billion in contract spending.That’s about 35% of its total contract budget. The …

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has delayed the full approval of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine.The decision had been expected by April 1, but the agency now says it needs more information before moving forward.The Novavax shot is already …

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A federal judge has stopped the Trump administration from cutting $11 billion in public health funding — at least for now.U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019, said Thursday that she would …

GLP-1 receptor agonist prescriptions increased significantly during study period across all categories of BMI, in dose-response manner