NASHVILLE — In this Healio video, Elliot Tapper, MD, FAASLD, discusses a presentation from the ACG Annual Meeting about popular supplements that are promoted on TikTok as treatments for MASH.
“Come from a place of empathy, understanding that [both you and the patient] share the same goals. You want them to be healthy and happy, and you don’t want them to feel shame or to be less forthright with information about what they’re taking,” Tapper, a professor of medicine at the University of Michigan, told Healio. “And where you don’t know the answer, it’s okay to see how things play out in a

Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, may lead to longer, more frequent migraines, according to research presented at The Menopause Society’s annual meeting.
“Migraines can have a significant impact on quality of life, particularly during the menopause transition when many women experience changes in their symptoms,” Flavia Fairbanks Ruano, MD, PhD, lead author from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said in a press release. “More research is needed to better understand the relationship between hormone therapy and migraine and to help guide individualized treatment decisions.”

Methylene blue photodynamic therapy, a treatment combining photosensitive methylene blue dye and red light therapy, was associated with favorable wound healing outcomes, particularly for diabetic foot ulcers, according to a review.
“Methylene blue has received increasing attention in recent years, particularly for its proposed anti-aging benefits and growing use in the wellness space,” Michelle Pavlis, MD, associate professor of dermatology at Duke University, told Healio. “However, many of these claims remain unproven, and concerns have been raised about unregulated products. We wanted to

SAN DIEGO — Standardized, consensus-based discharge criteria reduced hospital length of stay by 3.3 days for neurology patients, according to a poster presented at the 151st Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association.
These reductions occurred despite increases in patient volume, Melissa M. Reider-Demer, DNP, chief quality officer, department of neurology, and senior quality officer, UCLA Health, told Healio.
“We actually function at 130% capacity all the time,” Reider-Demer said. “Beds mean everything.”
Delays in discharges lead to increased costs, decreased access and throughput,

DENVER — Nearly half of missed dialysis treatments can be attributed to health issues that arise the day of treatment, and rescheduling is more likely when clinic staff actively follow-up, according study data presented at ASN Kidney Week.
Missing scheduled dialysis treatments can lead to hospitalization and other adverse outcomes for patients with end-stage kidney disease. To better understand patients’ reasons for missing treatments, Francesca Tentori, MD, MS, and colleagues identified patients through DaVita electronic health records who missed at least one session between Dec.

Editor’s Note: In Healio Allergy/Asthma’s column, “Food Allergy: Fact vs. Fiction,” Douglas H. Jones, MD, breaks down what’s true and what’s myth for a variety of topics related to food allergies. If you have a question that you would like answered in this column, email Jones at rmaaimd@gmail.com or Richard Gawel at rgawel@healio.com.
One of the most common questions I hear from parents is, “What’s the best treatment for my child’s food allergy?”
It’s a reasonable question, and one that has become increasingly nuanced to answer, but not because we lack effective treatments. The reason is quite

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Medicaid expansion did not appear to reduce inflammatory bowel disease-specific mortality over a 26-year period, according to a presenter at ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.
However, researchers noted these findings should not minimize the benefits Medicaid coverage provides patients with IBD.
“What stood out to me was the importance of interpreting that result within the outcome we measured,” Daniyal Raza, MD, assistant professor of medicine at LSU Health Shreveport, told Healio. “Mortality is a consequential endpoint, but it captures only one part of living with IBD. Our

Women’s reproductive and gynecologic health is influenced by a combination of hormonal, metabolic, environmental and lifestyle factors.
Obesity plays an important part in that relationship, affecting reproductive health across the lifespan, from menstrual health and fertility to pregnancy and menopause.
For clinicians, recognizing these connections can help support earlier diagnosis, more comprehensive treatment and better patient outcomes. At the same time, obesity should never become the sole explanation for a patient’s symptoms. Effective care requires looking at the whole patient,

Adults with mild autonomous cortisol secretion have higher risk for psychiatric disorders than those with nonfunctional adrenal tumors, according to data published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
“Mental health deserves attention when assessing patients with adrenal tumors, particularly those with mild autonomous cortisol secretion,” Hadis Mirzaei, MD, MSc, endocrinologist and internal medicine specialist at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, told Healio. “Higher cortisol concentrations are also associated with higher rates of

PHOENIX — Cardiac microcurrent therapy, implanted surgically or subcutaneously, improved left ventricular ejection fraction and showed signals of improved exercise capacity in patients with heart failure, speakers reported.
Positive results of the C-MIC II and C-MIC III trials of two cardiac microcurrent therapy devices (C-MIC, Berlin Heals Holding AG) designed to improve cardiac function and functional capacity in patients with HF were presented at the Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting.
“Cardiac microcurrent therapy delivers low-intensity current across the myocardium.