Is your kid’s school nurse scare mongering or is your child really at risk of Type 2 diabetes? That’s an old person’s disease, right? We used to think so, but it may no longer be true. Doctors are now seeing children presenting with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes in the clinic more often. But how often […]
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The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to Revi Extend, a long-term, minimally invasive, implantable tibial neuromodulation therapy for urgency urinary incontinence, the device’s manufacturer, BlueWind Medical, announced.
“FDA clearance of our next-generation implant reflects our continued commitment to meaningful innovation for patients and physicians,” Kerry Nelson, BlueWind Medical chief executive officer, said in a press release. “Extending implant durability coupled with our remotely enabled software advancements allows patients to receive the latest therapy innovations for 15 years into the
Many patients report high comfort with health systems using AI-written portal messages, noting it gets them information quickly and reduces clinician workload.
Their comfort comes with caveats, though. Patients want both clinician oversight and transparency that AI is being used.
“Pretty much everyone in our sample recognized that this could be a helpful tool,” Kellie Owens, PhD, assistant professor in the department of population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, told Healio.
“[However], patients were very clear that they see AI not as something they wanted to replace human judgment or
Twenty-six total procedures have now been completed with the Jasper robotic surgical platform, allowing the surgical team to maintain standard clinical workflow.
ForSight Robotics announced in a press release the completion of 14 more procedures by Alexey Rapoport, MD, with Robert Edward T. Ang, MD, as principal investigator. The company announced in April that Rapoport and Ang had completed the first in-human procedures with the Jasper platform.
Surgeons completed all 26 procedures without having to switch to manual surgery, according to the release.
The platform allowed the clinical team to
The FDA has approved the nation’s first messenger RNA-based influenza vaccine, marking a significant development in the fight against the respiratory illness — and the end of a tumultuous approval process.
The vaccine (mFlusiva, Moderna) is approved for adults aged 50 years or older. It is the fifth mRNA vaccine approved for use in the United States, which include Moderna’s two COVID-19 shots and its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine.
Moderna said it plans to launch the vaccine for the upcoming influenza season but said continued access for adults aged 65 years or older “may be contingent
Health officials linked an outbreak of Salmonella that has sicked 345 people in 27 states to jalapeño peppers sourced from Mexico and distributed to restaurants and wholesalers in the United States.
There have been 36 hospitalizations and no deaths in the outbreak, the CDC and FDA said this week.
The implicated peppers were grown in Sinaloa, Mexico, and distributed in the U.S. by San Diego-based Coast Citrus Distributors, which has agreed to recall the peppers, health officials said.
According to the FDA, 93% of the 191 people interviewed in the outbreak investigation “reported eating at a
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The PREVENT equations predict risk for cardiovascular disease, atherosclerotic CVD and heart failure in Native Americans better than earlier models, researchers reported.
At the American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC) Congress on CVD Prevention, Mohan Satish, MD, postdoctoral fellow in cardiovascular diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, presented findings validating the PREVENT equations in Native Americans, who were included in the “other” race/ethnicity category in the development of the PREVENT equations due to low
Eschenbach Optik of America has launched the Magno Digital video magnifier, aimed to assist with activities of daily life among patients with age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and other diseases causing vision loss.
“Patients who suffer from these eye diseases respond favorably to magnification for many of the activities of daily living, especially reading,” Kenneth T. Bradley, president and CEO of Eschenbach Optik of America, told Healio. “A portable device will allow these patients to read their mail, shop, dine out and more to help [them] remain independent and enjoy a
Once-daily ritlecitinib demonstrated clinically meaningful improvements in nonsegmental vitiligo on the face and body in adults and adolescents 12 years and older, according to topline data from two phase 3 studies.
The trials, conducted within the TRANQUILLO clinical development program, met their coprimary endpoints in the United States and their primary and secondary endpoints in other countries, according to a Pfizer press release. Based on these results, Pfizer intends to submit global regulatory filings for ritlecitinib (Litfulo) as a treatment for nonsegmental vitiligo. As Healio
The risk level of military service members developing ALS could be affected by which branch of the military they served in, with Air Force, Coast Guard and Navy veterans facing higher risks, according to data published in Neurology.
The research builds on a known association between military service and an increased risk for developing ALS, said Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, professor of environmental epidemiology and physiology with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
“Part of the issue is that it’s been 20 or so years now where we’ve identified this rather notable increased risk of