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• State Gun Laws Linked to Lower Youth Suicide Rates States with mandatory waiting periods for gun purchases or laws designed to prevent children from accessing firearms have lower suicide rates than states without such regulations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Waiting for Therapy? There's an App for That Smartphone apps can provide valuable interim support for individuals facing long waits for psychiatric therapy, offering stopgap relief.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Medical Debt Delays Care for Those With Depression, Anxiety Medical debt affects adults with depression and anxiety, with over 27% delaying or forgoing mental health care. Those with debt are twice as likely to delay or skip care.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Low Rates of Pediatric Lipid Screening in the United States Despite recommendations, the adherence to lipid screening practices among youths in the United States was low, with a screening prevalence of approximately 1 in 10 youths.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Newer Shingles Vaccine Tied to Lower Dementia Risk A new study showed a newer recombinant shingles vaccine was linked to a 164-day delay in dementia diagnosis in older adults compared to an older live shingles vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• AIDS 2024 Twice-Yearly PrEP Gives 'Huge' 100% Protection Final results of the highly anticipated PURPOSE 1 trial of lenacapavir show the shots prevent new infections without many side effects.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Slow-Release Buprenorphine Safe in Mild OUD Withdrawal Extended-release buprenorphine medication was deemed safe for patients with mild opioid withdrawal.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Why Are Germans Getting Heavier? Changes in the population's weight have many causes, including an abundance of food and declining expenditure of energy.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Two Diets Linked to Improved Cognition, Slowed Brain Aging Intermittent fasting and standard healthy diets both improve cognition, slow brain aging, and reduce insulin resistance, new research showed.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Taper, Dose Down, Discontinue: Striving for Less Steroid Use Now in the 75th year since the first presentation on the clinical use of glucocorticoids, what consensus has been reached in sparing their use to avoid their many potential adverse effects?
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Conduct Disorder Tied to Brain Structure Differences The largest study to date on conduct disorder in youth shows it is associated with extensive brain volume differences in several subcortical areas.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Mental Health and Diabetic Complications: A Two-Way Link An analysis of a national claims database found that mental health disorders and chronic diabetic complications were linked over the lifespan of those with type 1 or 2 diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• GRAPPA 2024 MACE Risk Similar Among Biologics for Psoriasis, PsA A retrospective analysis shows no difference in major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) between TNF inhibitors, IL-17 inhibitors, IL-23 inhibitors, and IL-12/IL-23 inhibitors.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Could Resistin Predict PAH Severity or Death? Survival models affirmed the value of resistin as a novel biomarker and therapy driver.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Baseline Bone Pain Predicts Survival in Mets Prostate Cancer Baseline bone pain was associated with worse survival outcomes in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, according to a recent post hoc analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• GRAPPA 2024 Adverse Events Differ Between Two Second-Line Psoriasis Rxs Apremilast and deucravacitinib, oral small-molecule drugs approved for treating psoriasis, were linked to different adverse events, and adverse event profiles differed between men and women.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• New Models Predict Time From MCI to Dementia Researchers made headway in developing predictive models for dementia that provide estimations of time to certain cognition levels.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Breaking Rheumatology's Reliance on Steroids: New Strategies Selective GC receptor agonists and modulators and GC plus hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase inhibitor combination therapy are some of the approaches under consideration.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• A Collagen Valve Could Treat Pediatric Heart Disease In an animal model, the implantation of the valve restored the blood flow direction through the pulmonary artery without causing valve leakage.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Common Eye Disorder May Be Linked to Maternal Hypertension Children whose mothers have a hypertensive disorder in pregnancy are at increased risk for strabismus, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024