This Medical News article discusses prenatal and peripubertal exposures to phthalates, parabens, and phenols and associations with puberty timing.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A Recent Study Linked Diet Soda With Stroke—But Is It Correlation or Causation?
This Medical News article is an interview with Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, PhD, RD, who studied the association of artificially sweetened beverages with cardiovascular disease and mortality in women.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Better Cholera Counts Through Machine Learning Models
A new model accurately predicted past-year infections with cholera-causing bacteria based on antibodies in a few drops of blood, researchers recently reported in Science Translational Medicine. The approach could be used to improve cholera incidence es…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Wireless Vital Signs Monitoring for the NICU
Today, babies in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are enveloped in a mass of monitoring wires that hamper basic clinical and imaging procedures and skin-to-skin contact with caregivers, which is linked with reduced infant mortality and other posit…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: HIV Remission After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
In a historic case, a patient in London achieved sustained HIV remission after receiving an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for Hodgkin lymphoma. The report, published in Nature, comes more than a decade after the now-famous “Ber…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Paradise’s Emergency Department Director Recalls California’s Worst Wildfire
This Medical News article is a physician’s first-person account of last November’s Camp Fire.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Quick Uptakes: After Rotavirus Vaccine, Australia’s Type 1 Diabetes Incidence Declines
This Medical News article discusses a recently discovered association between rotavirus vaccination and a decline in new type 1 diabetes cases among young Australian children.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Fit-Testing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacements With 3-D Printing
For patients with aortic valve stenosis who can’t undergo open-heart surgery or who have a high risk of surgical complications, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is an increasingly popular minimally invasive alternative. Preprocedural fit…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Liver and Lung Transplant Advances
Every year, approximately 2400 people in the United States die while waiting for a liver transplant. A study published in the American Journal of Transplantation suggests that a new machine learning–based mortality predictor could help reduce those d…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: No Compelling Evidence of Health Benefits From Nonsugar Sweeteners
This Medical News article discusses a recent systematic review of evidence on health outcomes associated with nonsugar sweeteners.
