Severe Chest Pain in Newly Diagnosed Colorectal Cancer
What was causing ongoing severe acute chest pain in this 65-year-old patient with no cardiovascular risk factors or prior heart problems? That was the conundrum for Stefano Savonitto, MD, and colleagues at Manzoni Hospital in Lecco, Italy, when the patient arrived at their emergency department early one morning. They reported in JAMA Internal Medicine that […]
Persistent Lymphadenopathy and Neck Abscesses in a Healthy Boy
What was causing this previously healthy 12-year-old boy to have nasal obstruction, increasing hoarseness and difficulty speaking, tender and swollen lymph nodes on his neck and recurring deep neck abscesses? That’s the question Samantha M. Moore, BS, of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and colleagues tackled in a case reported in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head […]
Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis Promising for Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism
A modified reperfusion protocol for intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) seemed to work without causing excessive bleeding in the small randomized CANARY trial. Use of conventional catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) with alteplase led to 4.3% of patients showing right ventricular (RV) recovery at 3 months (in terms of echocardiographic RV/LV ratios >0.9), which was numerically, but not […]
Body’s response to different strains of tuberculosis could affect transmission: Study could shed light on disease spread, development of resistance
Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to Rutgers researchers. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, could help break the cycle of rapid transmission of TB, the second-leading infectious killer in the world after COVID-19, according to the World […]
How Is Substance-Induced Psychosis Treated? Drug Abuse Symptoms
Substance-induced psychosis is initially treated by cessation of the substance causing psychosis and the following treatment plans. The initial treatment for substance-induced psychosis is the cessation of the substance that causes psychosis and monitoring the person in a safe and calm environment. Some of the drugs commonly prescribed for the treatment of substance-induced psychosis include: […]
How Do You Describe Triggers? Reactions & Types
Triggers refer to events or circumstances that affect your emotional state, causing you to feel fear, anger, sadness, anxiety or other intense feelings Triggers refer to events or circumstances that affect your emotional state, causing you to feel fear, anger, sadness, anxiety or other intense feelings. Emotional triggers are often linked to post-traumatic stress disorder […]
Most cases of never-smokers’ lung cancer treatable with mutation-targeting drugs: Available, FDA-approved drugs may be effective in targeting about 80% of never-smokers’ lung tumors
Despite smoking’s well-known role in causing lung cancer, a significant number of patients who develop lung tumors have never smoked. While scientists are still working to understand what spurs cancer in so-called “never-smokers,” a study led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrates new possibilities for treating these baffling tumors. […]
‘Staring Down the Barrel of This Gun’: What We Heard This Week
“We’re still staring down the barrel of this gun because its hypertransmissibility is causing more pediatric infections than earlier versions did.” — David Kimberlin, MD, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Infectious Diseases, offering his take on how the Delta variant altered the course of the pandemic. “Mandatory models are like […]