3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (569+ words) The unusual part came later. Over 15 years of follow-up, the side of his face that had been sweating too much turned pale and lost hair, in a pattern bounded by the midline of his face. Physicians affiliated with Universidad Anáhuac…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (850+ words) The pain changed how the patient moved. Walking shifted to accommodate it, and ordinary daily activities became difficult. Then a scan performed for a completely unrelated health problem found the answer by accident. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, better known…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (705+ words) Headlines have described the drug, rentosertib, as potentially reversing biological aging by several years. The study itself is more limited. Its authors write that the clocks cannot separate an effect on aging from the drug's effect on the lung disease…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (652+ words) A patient at a German university hospital was accidentally given 12.5 grams of dipyrone in a single oral dose, roughly 132 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. That is several times the maximum amount an adult is meant to receive across an…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (470+ words) The latissimus dorsi is the muscle reconstructive surgeons reach for when they want a sure thing. It is broad, it is fed by a dependable set of vessels, and its anatomy is consistent enough that surgical planning is usually straightforward....

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (625+ words) Almost a year after federal officials announced they had begun changing the safety label on acetaminophen to reflect a possible link to autism and ADHD, the label has not changed. The detail that matters is the timing. This is version…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (892+ words) A disease once associated with sailors on long voyages has claimed a life in an unexpected place: a modern children's hospital in Australia. Six-year-old Connor Dean developed severe vitamin C deficiency and features consistent with scurvy before suffering a cardiac…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (886+ words) Surgeons in Baku removed a giant keratin horn growing from the skin of a man's right cheek, closed the defect with reconstruction, and sent the specimen to pathology. The lab report found what the horn itself could never have revealed:…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (947+ words) Fewer pediatricians report burnout now than at the height of the pandemic, according to a longitudinal study published in Pediatrics, but the researchers who documented the improvement took care to say the remaining level is not reassuring. In 2021, 46.2 percent of…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (692+ words) Then comes the wrinkle. The dose that improved lung function the most was not the dose the clocks read as youngest. Researchers then ran those blood proteins through six aging clocks built by different teams using different methods, including ProtAge,…...