Biomedical experimental data indicate that automobile accidents with no vehicle damage are unlikely to cause injury to the occupants. Soft tissue injuries heal in a few weeks. Chronic pain has ...

Mutism in older adults is not uncommon. It is often confused with severe depression, locked-in syndrome, and persistent vegetative state, but it is important to distinguish among them as the ...

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is one of the most important vision-threatening complications secondary to pathological myopia (PM). In the last 20 years, there have been rapid advances in the ...

A medical and health journalist for 20 years, Caroline has written extensively for both physician and consumer audiences. She helped launch and was the editor of Health Digest, an award-winning ...

Used clinically since the 1920s, corticosteroids interrupt multiple steps in immune activation because of the ubiquitous expression of corticosteroid receptors. Corticosteroids inhibit antigen ...

Inhaled anesthetic agents include nitrous oxide (the oldest of all anesthetics) and various halogenated agents: desflurane (halogenated solely with fluorine halogenation increases potency and is ...

The BMA's GP Committee for England has conditionally agreed to changes to the 2025-2026 GP contract, including an £889 ...

Doctors struggle to disconnect — even on vacation. We ask 10 physicians why real PTO is so hard and how they get the ...

For both induction and maintenance therapy, subcutaneous guselkumab significantly improves clinical outcomes in patients with ...

Mentalisation-based therapy significantly reduces aggression in male offenders with antisocial personality disorder, showing promise as a forensic intervention, a trial shows.

Preoperative single-fraction stereotactic partial breast irradiation using GammaPod technology is associated with a promising ...

The time of day of immunotherapy infusions does appear to affect patient outcomes. But convincing the wider oncology ...