1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (414+ words) Veterans with melanoma have a 47% higher risk for developing Parkinson’s disease compared with veterans without melanoma, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. These findings persisted even after adjusting for confounders, according to…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (453+ words) After 338 former NFL players donated their brains to a pair of brain banks upon their deaths between 2008 and 2021, researchers found that 315 of them, or 93.2%, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study. Considering the 1,712 former players who died during this…...

3+ day, 55+ min ago   (815+ words) Several dietary elements recommended in the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, including total protein intake and red meat, have been linked to steatotic liver disease and fibrosis, analyses showed.Conversely, other components that were removed from previous guidelines — including increased…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (55+ words) MUNICH — A novel oral relaxin receptor agonist was well tolerated and had favorable effects on hemodynamics in patients with heart failure across the ejection fraction spectrum, researchers reported. For the phase 2b LUMINARA trial, presented at the European Society of…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (473+ words) The direct, informal and indirect costs of Parkinson’s disease in Europe hit 22.8 billion, or about $26.5 billion, in 2019, indicating key burdens on patients, caregivers and society, according to data published by Movement Disorders.The prevalence of Parkinson’s…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (624+ words) At least 24.5% of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy at death, according to research published in The BMJ.Although researchers said they were not surprised by the direction of the findings, the magnitude was striking,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (63+ words) In this video from GlomCon Hawaii, Paul E. Hanna, MD, MSc, FASN, discusses highlights from current phase 3 immunoglobulin A nephropathy trials and the design and implementation of future trials.Hanna, senior associate consultant in nephrology at Mayo Clinic, described current phase…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (45+ words) In this video from GlomCon Hawaii, Paul E. Hanna, MD, MSc, FASN, senior associate consultant in nephrology at Mayo Clinic, discusses his experience at the meeting. “GlomCon Hawaii is one of my favorite conferences that I like to attend,”…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (57+ words) In this video from GlomCon Hawaii, Dana Rizk, MD, discusses the results of a phase 3 clinical trial concerning the safety and efficacy of sibeprenlimab-szsi in the treatment of immunoglobulin A nephropathy. Rizk, professor of medicine in the division of nephrology…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (407+ words) Parental refusal of the newborn hepatitis B virus vaccine surged in recent years, the latest in an ongoing trend that has more than doubled refusal rates since 2018, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.An analysis of live…...