About The Study: In extremely preterm infants with a protocol-defined patent ductus arteriosus, death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia did not differ between the expectant management group and the active treatment group. Survival was substantially higher with expectant management.

People might attribute midnight bouts of chest pain or waves of nausea to food poisoning, stress or a stubborn case of indigestion, but Rutgers Health researchers suggest that knowing your family’s surgical past could pinpoint another cause: gallstone disease.

 

Their study, published in the Journal of Surgical Research, found that patients who were aware of family members’ past gallbladder surgery were more likely to seek help early – and were less likely to end up in the operating room for high-risk, emergency gallbladder removal.

The UT Health San Antonio Center for Brain Health opens tomorrow, Dec. 10, offering hope for research and treatment of Alzheimer's disease but also a wide array of neurological and neurodegenerative conditions, including rare diseases like ALS and FTD.

Twenty percent of people over 50 who use cannabis products reported that at least once in the past year, they had driven within two hours of using the drug. That means they likely got on the road while the THC in cannabis still impaired their reaction times, attention and other abilities that are important to driving safely. Men, those who use cannabis daily and those who use it for mental health reasons were mostly likely to report driving soon after using.

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released today (Dec. 9) from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out a detailed science strategy to guide the initial human missions to the red planet.  

This cohort study of older traditional Medicare beneficiaries who were diagnosed with common metastatic cancers found a mean of 40 to 62 health care contact days in the year after diagnosis. Health care contact days increased from 2008 to 2019, suggesting that treatment advancements and/or care inefficiencies may have imposed additional burdens on beneficiaries. The results of this study suggest that oncology teams should discuss expected contact days and related burdens when developing care goals and treatment plans with older adult patients.