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Weekly motivational text messages did not improve self-reported medication adherence among patients who experienced ACS vs. usual care alone, but they may have helped to improve certain lifestyle-related risk factors, researchers reported.The results of the TEXTMEDS trial were published in Circulation.

A session at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress spotlighted the impact of medical misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the ICU, ED, rural areas and on social media.The impact of medical information is widespread. In the ICU, medical misinformation can result in “false hope for families, loss of trust in the care team, loss of attention to physicians’ words,

SAN DIEGO — Among women undergoing hysterectomy for benign indications, those with endometriosis had a higher rate of postoperative complications compared with women without endometriosis, according to a presentation here.

SAN DIEGO — The prevalence of gestational diabetes among women who delivered at a single academic center during the COVID-19 pandemic was 38.9% higher than among women who delivered before the pandemic, according to data presented here.

Vivalink announced the availability of the first multimodal wearable patch for remote BP monitoring for use in commercial research and development. According to a company press release, the patch, which weighs 7.5 g and is the size of a small bandage, uses electrical signal-based technologies to capture ECG trace, heart rate, respiratory rate and systolic and diastolic BP on a single device.

Heath officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this week confirmed a third case of Ebola in an ongoing outbreak that has killed two people.

Novartis temporarily suspended production at two of its radioligand therapy production sites.Novartis took the voluntary action “out of an abundance of caution as a result of potential quality issues” identified in the manufacturing process, a company-issued press release stated.

Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, for both men and women, and across the entire population represents the second most common cause of cancer deaths and diagnoses.

Over the last decade, “telehealth” became a buzzword in conversations about health care innovation. During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became the only avenue to care for many patients with cancer and other diseases.

Ocular Surgery News | In 1980, while helping the late George O. Waring III prepare the grant application for the soon to be initiated Prospective Evaluation of Radial Keratotomy study, I reviewed the world literature on the incidence and prevalence of myopia.At that time, in the United States, approximately 25% of the population was myopic, 25% hyperopic and 50% emmetropic within ±0.5 D of plano, while 30% had 1 D or