Researchers demonstrated the equivalence of the effect of delivering early palliative care via video versus in-person visits on quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer.
Cytisine, a plant-based medication, has been used to treat tobacco dependence for decades in other countries.
Peter Masiakos, MD, director of Pediatric Trauma Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-director of the MGH Gun Violence Prevention Center and associate professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, is the lead author of a recent perspective in the NEJM, Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence
Researchers provide some of the largest and most comprehensive evidence to date demonstrating that proteomic aging is common biological signature related to numerous age-related functional traits, morbidities, and mortality.
A novel educational program for clinicians provided a foundation about climate change and the impact of fossil fuel-related pollution on individual health, and how healthcare systems contribute to carbon pollution and can address these challenges.
This perspective sought to investigate whether body mass index (BMI) and other clinical metrics should be disaggregated in Asian populations to reflect the population's heterogeneity better.
Using a microsimulation model, a team of researchers led by Ethan Borre, MD, PhD, found that the shift in funding will harm high-risk groups while providing only minimal benefits for new priority populations.
Repeated infusions of certain immune cells delayed ALS onset and extended survival in mice, and also reduced markers of inflammation in an individual with the disease.
Researchers found that smoking decreases the life expectancy of people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa by three to six years, of which two to five years could be regained by smoking cessation.
Study reveals higher gut levels of Blastocystis in people who have better cardiometabolic health and a healthier diet.
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