In the 1970s, my parents subscribed to the myth that coffee would stunt my growth.
My mom said she carried this knowledge down from her maternal grandmother, who drank Postum.
Created in 1895, Postum is an instant, caffeine-free, hot beverage coffee alternative still available today. Postum historically had a marketing campaign that particularly targeted parents warning them about the risks of children drinking caffeinated coffee.
So, although my parents forbid me to drink coffee, I proceeded to resist the house rules. Coffee ice cream was my go-to flavor and coffee milk was my drink of choice

Oral semaglutide improved multiple cardiometabolic metrics among adults with type 2 diabetes at high risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to a post hoc secondary analysis of the SOUL trial.
As Healio previously reported, once-daily oral semaglutide (Ozempic pill, formerly known as Rybelsus, Novo Nordisk) reduced risk for major adverse CV events by 14% compared with placebo among adults with type 2 diabetes at high risk for atherosclerotic CVD. In new data published in JAMA Cardiology, adults who received oral semaglutide had greater improvements in multiple CV risk

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In a pivotal clinical trial, an excimer laser procedure reduced IOP in patients with glaucoma, according to a press release from Bausch + Lomb.
The Elios system reduced patients’ IOP by creating microchannels in the trabecular meshwork to improve aqueous flow.
Researchers conducted a prospective study including 318 patients at 20 U.S. sites who were previously diagnosed with mild to moderate primary open-angle glaucoma, for which they were taking glaucoma medications, and cataracts. The co-primary endpoints

Ambient listening documentation may soon become integral to clinical practice as AI advances reshape care delivery.
Ambient scribes are poised to become one of the fastest technology adoptions in health care history, according to a March 2025 report on the adoption of AI in health care from the Peterson Health Technology Institute AI Taskforce.
“In an industry with notoriously long sales cycles and implementation timelines, there is no technology in recent memory that has been adopted more enthusiastically by clinicians or has scaled so uncharacteristically fast, absent a regulatory mandate,”

More than 6 hours of daily screen time was associated with elevated blood pressure, cholesterol and BMI among young adults, according to data to be presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.
The combination of high screen time plus low physical activity had a greater negative impact on CV risk factors vs. screen time or physical activity alone, according to the results.
The prospective observational study was designed to evaluate the impact of a sedentary lifestyle and excess screen time on CV risk factors among young adults in Pakistan.
“This study was driven by

PHILADELPHIA — Infants with peanut and cashew allergy developed tolerance by age 4 years with introduction to raw and then roasted nuts, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.
“Each of these infants came in with an anaphylaxis reaction, and a lot of them would have been disregarded or shoved aside just because of the literature and the studies that are out there,” Morgan Schmidt, clinical research fellow, Kado Clinic, told Healio.
“However, with this protocol, we were able to have a sustained tolerance,” she said. “Now,

In this video, Hope S. Rugo, MD, speaks on the wide range of topics covered at Miami Breast Cancer Conference, including radiation oncology, medical oncology and surgery, as well as pathology and AI.
Rugo, director of the Women’s Cancers Program and chief of breast medical oncology at City of Hope, said the conference also featured important discussions on how to manage fertility and endocrine therapy toxicity, as well as sessions on applying new therapies and emerging data in both early-stage and metastatic disease.
According to Rugo, discussions that included breast cancer patients were “one

A high proportion of patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis achieved long-term on-treatment remission for 3 years with bimekizumab, according to a poster presentation at Winter Clinical Miami.
Over the last 20 years, the psoriasis treatment landscape has changed significantly, evolving to a point where patients with moderate to severe psoriasis have a greater chance of achieving complete skin clearance, according to April W. Armstrong, MD, MPH, professor and chief of dermatology at University of California, Los Angeles.
“Especially in the last 5 years, developments in both biologic

With receipt of inhaled treprostinil for 52 weeks, adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis had less FVC decline compared with those receiving placebo, according to results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
“If approved, then Tyvaso would offer another antifibrotic that clinicians can employ for their patients,” Steven D. Nathan, MD, medical director of the advanced lung disease and lung transplant program at Inova Fairfax Hospital, told Healio. “Despite three currently approved antifibrotics (nintedanib, pirfenidone and nerandomilast), we still have a long way to go in

As adherence to the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diet went up, total grey matter decline and lateral ventricular volume expansion slowed, according to study results.
These findings were published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
“For clinicians, I think the main implication is that diet should be considered part of the broader conversation about healthy brain aging, alongside vascular risk factor control, physical activity and other lifestyle factors,” Hui Chen, PhD, of Zhejiang University in China, told Healio.
“Our findings do not prove