The practice of “sunscreen doping” has emerged as a workaround to the FDA’s burdensome regulations for sunscreen ingredients, highlighting cracks in the way the United States approaches sunscreen, according to an article.
Current FDA regulations have left Americans without a newly approved sunscreen ingredient since 1999, though, after years of advocacy, the agency formally proposed adding the broad-spectrum chemical UV filter bemotrizinol to the list of active sunscreen ingredients in December. Despite this change, restrictions remain on the concentration of active ingredients in sunscreen

A technology-enabled service, offering mothers educational materials, infant care trackers and mental health tools improved maternal mental health outcomes, according to an abstract presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.
“A structured, collaborative care-based digital intervention can produce measurable improvements in mental health and family wellness outcomes across the first year postpartum,” Emily S. Miller, MD, MPH, principal investigator and division director of maternal-fetal medicine at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, told Healio.
The service, called Baby2Home,

Guideline-directed medical therapy and dose titration are essential to improving outcomes in heart failure with reduced or mildly reduced ejection fraction.
According to the CDC, 6.7 million U.S. adults older than 20 years have HF. The CDC also reported that HF was responsible for 14.6% of all causes of death in 2023. HF is often accompanied by comorbidities and can result in a rapid decline in one’s health.
The American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the Heart Failure Society of America recommend rapid initiation and titration of the four foundational drug classes

Patients with major depressive disorder and patients with inflammatory skin diseases like atopic dermatitis share similar immune abnormalities, notably in the Th2 pathway, according to a study published in Molecular Psychiatry.
Inhibiting interleukin-4 receptor alpha (IL-4R), a cell receptor that helps regulate inflammation in the Th2 pathway, with dupilumab (Dupixent; Regeneron, Sanofi) has potential as a therapy for MDD, researchers wrote.
Evidence has shown that individuals with inflammatory disorders have a higher occurrence of clinical depression, study author James W. Murrough, MD, PhD,

A multicenter research effort yielded findings that may allow for more effective and personalized treatment of an underrecognized but serious blood disorder.
Extended follow-up of individuals with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) showed pomalidomide (Pomalyst, Bristol Myers Squibb) conferred durable control of nosebleeds — the disorder’s hallmark symptom — and could be a long-term therapeutic option for some patients.
“The optimal treatment for an individual with HHT is hard to define because this is such a heterogeneous disease, with different members of the same family sometimes

Transdermal hormone therapy, but not oral HT, conferred increases in bone mineral density for women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea, researchers reported in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
In a systematic review and network meta-analysis, researchers found that women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea had improvements in lumbar spine BMD with transdermal HT or teriparatide, and transdermal HT was the only medication that improved femoral neck BMD.
“Not all estrogen therapies are equal; the formulation matters,” Alexander N. Comninos, BSc (Hons), MBBS,

Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias were less likely among adults who completed cognitive speed training with booster sessions, according to data published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions.
Memory and reasoning training did not yield similar effects, Marilyn S. Albert, PhD, director of cognitive neuroscience, department of neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.
Although prior studies indicate that the cognitive function of healthy older adults may improve with training, the researchers said, the effect of these

Almost or all children/adolescents who experienced food allergy-related bullying reported that it involved offensive name-calling, social exclusion and the spreading of false rumors, according to study findings.
These data were published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.
“According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, children are entitled to protection from discrimination and degrading treatment and to equal participation in education,” Rita Nocerino, RN, PhD student at the University of Naples, and colleagues wrote. “From this perspective, [food allergy-related

Among children and adolescents, the risks for influenza and COVID-19 were raised if they had been newly diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea, according to findings published in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
“As pediatricians and pulmonary physicians, we strongly advocate vaccinating against seasonal flu in children who are at risk for severe complications, such as those with chronic lung disease, prematurity or asthma,” Alex Gileles-Hillel, MD, ATSF, professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and senior pediatric pulmonologist at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, told

Newborn hepatitis B virus vaccination rates in the U.S. decreased by over 10 percentage points in the last 2 years after several years of growth, according to study results published in JAMA.
The findings come after the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 last year to overturn the existing federal recommendation for universal HBV vaccination at birth.
Joshua “Yoshi” Rothman, MD, MS, the study’s lead author and clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, told Healio he had noticed an increasing number of