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New Genetic Link to Male Pattern Hair Loss Identified

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A glance in the mirror as you head out. A reflection in a car’s paintwork before you meet a date. Men, ever catch yourself checking your hairline? Up to 80% of men with European ancestry will lose their hair as they age. We know that male pattern baldness is mostly inherited via our mother on […]

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ChatGPT shows potential at accurately summarizing medical abstracts, researchers find

ChatGPT produced high-quality and accurate summaries of medical abstracts but struggled to classify the relevance of abstracts to medical specialties, a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine showed.
“Care models emphasizing clinical productivity leave clinicians with scant time to review the academic literature, even within their own specialty,” Joel Hake, MD, an assistant professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and colleagues wrote. “Recent developments in artificial intelligence and natural language processing

‘We were a bit surprised’: Asking patients in ED about flu shot improves uptake

Use of an influenza vaccine messaging platform in EDs increased vaccine uptake among unvaccinated patients, a study in NEJM Evidence showed.
“We fully expected the interventions to improve vaccination rates... but we were a bit surprised at how large a difference there was,” Robert M. Rodriguez, MD, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, told Healio.
According to Rodriguez, one of the driving factors of the study was that the patient populations that the researchers serve — such as homeless and historically

Ruxolitinib cream improves sleep disturbances, itch in children with atopic dermatitis

SAN DIEGO — Ruxolitinib cream improved quality of life outcomes, including sleep and itch, in children aged 2 to 11 years with atopic dermatitis, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting.
As Healio previously reported, ruxolitinib cream, a topically administered selective Janus kinase 1 and 2 inhibitor, has proven to be an effective treatment for reducing inflammation and itch in children aged 2 to 11 years with atopic dermatitis, according to results from TRuE-AD3, a randomized, double-blind, vehicle-controlled phase 3 study.
To elucidate the

Rinvoq 45 mg prompts ‘rapid resolution’ of Crohn’s disease symptoms as early as day 5

Once-daily Rinvoq 45 mg provided “rapid relief” of stool frequency and abdominal pain score within the first week of induction therapy in patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease, according to a data analysis.
“In the U-EXCEL and U-EXCEED induction trials, upadacitinib 45 mg taken once daily demonstrated significantly greater efficacy vs. placebo for the co-primary endpoints of clinical remission and endoscopic response and most key secondary endpoints in moderately to severely active CD at week 12 and week 52, with a safety profile consistent with

Risk for total hip arthroplasty rises with intake of fatty acids

The risk for total hip arthroplasty increases with higher baseline dietary intake of arachidonic acid, as well as eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.
However, intake of these fatty acids did not significantly increase risk for total knee arthroplasty.
“There is considerable evidence that dietary fatty acid intake and composition of polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 [n-3] PUFAs and omega-6 [n-6] PUFAs) distinctly influence the maintenance of bone and joint health and are implicated in the development and

WCO launches Competency Framework for Optometry

The World Council of Optometry has announced the launch of its Competency Framework for Optometry, a resource designed to define essential skills, knowledge and abilities for the profession and streamline optometric education worldwide.
According to a WCO press release, the framework addresses the need for a unified global standard and provides a comprehensive guide for developing core curricula for optometry programs around the world. The framework domains, which align with the WHO Eye Care Competencies Framework, are refractive error, visual function assessment, ocular health and diseases,

Study: Invasion worsened mental health for Ukrainian adolescents

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine caused PTSD and worsened the mental health of adolescents and teens in the region, according to two studies.
“I've been doing research on children and adolescents' health in humanitarian settings for over 5 years now,” Ryunosuke Goto, MD, a pediatrician at the University of Tokyo Hospital and Nagano Children’s Hospital in Japan, told Healio. “Very little was known on the mental health burden of the war on civilians.”
A study by Goto and colleagues is the first of the Adolescents of Ukraine During the Russian Invasion Cohort,

Physical quality of life after axillary lymph node dissection impacted by race, insurance

Black, Hispanic and Asian women reported more arm swelling after axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer compared with white women, according to findings published in JAMA Surgery.
Women covered by Medicare or Medicaid also experienced worse physical quality of life (QOL) compared with women with private insurance after axillary lymph node dissection (ALND).
“It is important to understand the long-term survivorship issues in women after breast cancer treatment and to understand that treatments may affect women across racial and ethnic groups differently,” Andrea V. Barrio,

Body dysmorphic disorder common among adolescent girls, linked to psychiatric comorbidity

Body dysmorphic disorder and appearance preoccupation were relatively common among youth, especially adolescent girls, according to a study published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Additionally, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) was associated with high levels of comorbid psychopathology, risk and psychosocial impairment.
“Underdiagnosis and undertreatment of BDD is a major concern and likely to reflect a range of barriers including reluctance to seek help, but also limited awareness of BDD among mental health professionals,” Georgina Krebs,