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SSRIs are by far the most frequently used type of medication for the treatment of anxiety and depression as well as other mood disorders. Unfortunately, in the last 10 years, advances in psychiatric research and digital health technologies have changed how healthcare professionals evaluate their patients’ treatment outcomes and create personalized medication plans for their […]

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Reading an eye chart or updating glasses, along with checking contact lenses? Is that all you know about an eye care routine? The truth lies in the eyes, and that’s not only about a person’s soul and emotions but also their entire body health. A comprehensive eye exam proves it. A person’s eye reveals a […]

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Not enough pickleball players are protecting themselves from eye injuries, say American ophthalmologists in the most recent edition of JAMA ophthalmology. According to doctors, in recent years, the number of pickleball players turning up in the ER with an eye injury has soared. Between 2005 and 224, over 3000 patients went to US emergency departments […]

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PHOENIX — Patients with high resiliency may experience better outcomes and faster recovery after ACL reconstruction compared with patients with low resiliency, according to results presented here.
“This is the first study that I have seen that, in a randomized way, evaluated video and in-person based education modalities on perioperative outcomes. The findings were striking and show that we need to be looking at the psychology of our patients a lot more closely,” Sailesh “Sai” Tummala, MD, orthopedic sports medicine and shoulder surgery fellow at Stanford

Delivery of targeted prompts increased the frequency with which clinicians and patients with cancer had structured discussions about care goals and preferences, according to results of a randomized controlled trial.
Use of “nudges” delivered to both parties resulted in a 79% higher likelihood of documented serious illness conversations within 60 days compared with no use of nudges. Nudges delivered to clinicians drove much of the improvement, results showed.
Even with the dual intervention, however, these conversations were documented in the medical record only about one-third of the time.
“Our

Click here to read the Healio Exclusive, “Rising rate of ocular allergies calls for collaborative, eco-conscious interventions.”
Plastics are a petrochemical product. More than 99% of plastic resins are created from oil, fracked gas or coal, and enormous quantities of additives are used to give them properties such as water resistance, flexibility, color and so on.
In the 2024 PlastChem report, researchers had identified 16,265 chemicals that can be used in the production of plastics, 26% of which are known to be hazardous. “Hazardous” in this instance means that they may be carcinogenic,

Patients with Parkinson’s disease experienced more “good on” time, less “off” time and motor function improvements after a switch to 6 weeks of treatment with Crexont from another levodopa-based therapy, according to study findings.
These data were presented as a pair of posters at the Advanced Therapeutics in Movement & Related Disorders Congress.
Changing treatment to Crexont (carbidopa and levodopa, Amneal) extended-release capsules from immediate-release carbidopa/levodopa (CD/LD), immediate-release CD/LD plus a catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor, or from Rytary (CD/LD,

Implantation of iStent inject led to significantly lower eye drop burden in patients with glaucoma, according to a study published in Clinical Ophthalmology.
In addition, eyes with the trabecular micro-bypass stent had better ocular surface outcomes vs. fellow eyes.
“Toxic ocular surface effects as a result of local glaucoma medications are serious and increasing in clinical practice,” Kjell G. Gundersen, MD, PhD, of Ifocus Eye Clinic in Norway, told Healio. “They affect cosmesis, quality of life, quality of vision and general eye health. On top of this, negative adherence and

Saptalis Pharmaceuticals launched generic cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion 0.05% for the treatment of dry eye disease, according to press release.
According to the release, the eye drop, a generic of Restasis (cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion 0.05%, AbbVie), will be available in 30- and 60-count single-use vials. It is indicated for increasing tear production, providing “a convenient option for managing inflammation-associated tear deficiency.”
Saptalis also launched a number of treatments in areas outside of the ophthalmic space, such as dermatology, psychiatry and allergy, including:
“With

A text message reminder-based strategy significantly improved colorectal cancer screening rates among adults in underserved communities, compared with nurse-led telephone call outreach, according to study results.
Findings from a quality-improvement randomized trial showed that automated messaging may be a more effective and lower cost strategy to increase fecal immunochemical test (FIT) completion.
“This is really a universal phenomenon we are seeing with this switch from phone calls to text communication,” Leora I. Horwitz, MD, MHS, director of the division of healthcare delivery science and