Diabetes care and education specialists should identify people with diabetes at risk for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and intervene early in disease progression, according to two speakers.
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a common comorbidity for people with diabetes. Susan Cornell, PharmD, CDCES, FAPhA, FADCES, professor emeritus at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy; diabetes care and education specialist and consultant at Bolingbrook Christian Health Center and Will Grundy Medical Clinic; and a Healio | Endocrine Today

In all seasons, adults with COPD and type 2 inflammation had a decreased annualized rate of moderate/severe exacerbations with dupilumab vs. placebo, according to data presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.
“Dupilumab is already approved for eligible patients with COPD, but these results provide clinicians with further confidence that dupilumab can reduce flare-ups at any time of year, regardless of what season-specific exacerbation triggers might be present,” Surya P. Bhatt, MD, MSPH, pulmonologist and professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at

Summer may be winding down, but tick season is still in full swing — and that means the possibility of developing alpha-gal syndrome remains high in certain areas of the country.
The food allergy — caused by an immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated reaction hours after eating beef, pork or other mammalian meat or mammalian-derived products and triggered by the bite of a lone star tick — should be considered among patients with unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms like abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea.
In 2023, the AGA published a clinical practice update on the diagnosis and management of

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After months of rotations at different hospitals, I discovered that my favorite portion was not surgery, but rather the clinic. During that time, I encountered an elderly patient who was plagued by psoriatic mutilans and was facing multiple joint surgeries to help alleviate pain. This was my first exposure to progressed rheumatic disease and the realization that there was hope for prevention.
Starting residency, I knew that pursuing

A Pregnant Woman's Vocal Cords Kept Closing When She Breathed In, and an ICU Cesarean Revealed a Hidden Abruption

A 34-year-old's growing nipple lump was flagged on a mammogram. Surgery found two benign growths, including one that neither scan had shown.

Gas ignited inside a 50-year-old man's bladder during laser prostate surgery, causing three full-thickness tears. Lab tests later found a sarcoma.

A man with a complete spinal cord injury couldn't feel his bladder, but rhythmic belly muscle contractions signaled when it was full.

A 75-year-old woman took steroids before a CT scan, yet her salivary glands swelled again 16 hours after contrast in a rare reaction, iodide mumps.

A survey found that 20% of men knew that studies link dairy to prostate cancer risk. The evidence is mostly observational and does not prove that dairy causes cancer.