(MedPage Today) — A man grabbed a bottle of what looked like water and took a swig. Hours later, he was in the emergency department with a life-threatening cerebral air gas embolism.
The problem: It was highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide…
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He Drank Hydrogen Peroxide By Accident. It Caused an Embolism in His Brain.
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Supplement Yanked Over Suicide Risk; 'Dilbert' Creator Dies; Full-Body Scan Lawsuit
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Modern Warrior is recalling all lots of its Modern Warrior Ready supplement, marketed for boosting brain function, after the detection of undeclared 1,4-DMAA, aniracetam… -
Health Myths Debunked; Astronaut's Medical Crisis; GLP-1 for Psoriatic Arthritis
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Doctors debunked five women’s health myths on mammograms, menopause, exercise, and more. (NPR)
The FDA rejected tasimelteon (Hetlioz) as a treatment for jet lag… -
Spondyloarthritis: Spinal MRI May Improve Management
(MedPage Today) — Some 20% of people with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) included in a prospective cohort study showed no lesions in their sacroiliac joints, only in the spine, researchers reported — an indication that advanced imaging that…
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Trump's True Scan Story; School Vax Rates Dropping; Deadly Fungus Spreading
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President Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal that his recent imaging was a CT scan, not an MRI as originally thought, and that there is “nothing wrong” with… -
Sniffing Out the Optimal Radiation Dose for Head and Neck Cancer
(MedPage Today) — Sense of smell in patients with head and neck cancer began to deteriorate at a radiation dose of 22 Gy and increased in a dose-related fashion, a small prospective study showed.
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Proton Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer Makes a Case for Standard of Care
(MedPage Today) — Proton radiotherapy (RT) for oropharyngeal cancer matched conventional photon therapy for slowing disease progression and led to better overall survival (OS) with less toxicity, a prospective randomized trial showed.
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Lung Cancer Screening Follow-Up Often Inadequate
(MedPage Today) — After finding abnormalities on low-dose CT lung cancer screening, many patients don’t get the recommended level of follow-up care, a Medicare-linked registry analysis showed.
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Woman’s Ice-Skating Fall Produces Striking X-Ray, Rare Forearm Break
(MedPage Today) — The weather outside might be frightful — but so is a radiograph of the arm one woman broke while ice skating.
The 26-year-old arrived at the emergency department at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in Taipei City, Taiwan, with… -
Preop RT May Boost Response to Chemo-Immunotherapy in High-Risk Early Breast Cancer
(MedPage Today) — SAN ANTONIO — Preoperative radiotherapy (RT) plus PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) significantly increased immune activation and tumor response in node-positive hormone receptor-positive (HR+)/HER2-negative breast cancer…