Medicine

Author: Joel Lexchin | Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney

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In a lengthy letter to students, the dean of the faculty of medicine said the anatomy lab in the Tupper Building was tested over the summer and results showed that formaldehyde levels no longer meet provincial standards.

I thought this one was really cool!

In more complex bone problems like severe, irregular fractures or resections done as part of bone cancer treatment, the bone won’t heal on its own. The most common means of stabilizing the injured site and making recovery possible is metal-based grafts, implants usually made with titanium alloys.

One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington’s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors.

At Canada’s largest research hospital network, nurses get a lesson on how to protect themselves from violence

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada said on Monday that it has revisited its position in light of reports questioning whether there is a link between mothers taking acetaminophen while pregnant and autism in children.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/34876808

*Many say control measure for mosquito-borne disease hark back to the zero-Covid era, in which people’s daily lives were strictly monitored.*

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Quebec doctors are sounding the alarm over recent deepfake videos that have been appearing online, saying they can erode public trust in the medical system and put people's health at risk.

TLDR: the current treatment requires anesthesia, a ride home, bowel prep with laxatives and clear liquid diet, and it is painful once the stones come out. The new procedure doesn't require anesthesia or bowel prep, patients can drive home alone after a 30 minute treatment, and the patient reports that there is "no real pain" when the stones come out. The article suggests this is because the stones are whittled down to be smaller than the current treatment can do.

Copying the At a glance section from CIHR site:

Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics said late Friday it won’t comply with a request from the Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy following the death of a third patient receiving one of its treatments for muscular dystrophy.

While the results of this study may seem obvious, studies like this are necessary in order to change / guide public policy. Excerpts below:

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Just a week had remained before scientists in South Africa were to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, and hopes were high for another step toward limiting one of history's deadliest pandemics. Then the email arrived.

At least 27 people have been hospitalised in West Baltimore following suspected drug overdoses.

Scientists have hijacked the herpes virus and turned it into a cancer-busting ally.

The first malaria treatment suitable for babies and very young children has been approved for use.

Study: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03773-w

A 64-year-old man went to the emergency department of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston with a painful festering ulcer spreading on his left, very swollen ankle. It was a gruesome sight; the open sore was about 8 by 5 centimeters (about 3 by 2 inches) and was rimmed by black, ashen, and dark purple tissue. Inside, it oozed with streaks and fringes of yellow pus around pink and red inflamed flesh. It was 2 cm deep (nearly an inch). And it smelled.

NOTE: The original title was "Artificial intelligence-assisted detection[...]", so I modified it to be more specific.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32060710

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug lenacapavir as a twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV.

As cannabis use among youth rises in Canada — and THC potency reaches record highs — emergency departments are seeing a surge in cases of a once-rare condition: cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS).

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Diabetes Canada says it's received a surge in reports from people who've seen ads for or bought products that use the charity's logos without authorization.

So, you’ve got a receding hairline in 2025. You could visit a dermatologist, sure, or you could try a new crop of websites that will deliver your choice of drugs on demand after a video call with a telehealth physician. There’s Rogaine and products from popular companies like Hims, or if you have an appetite for the experimental, you might find yourself at Anagen.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30549287

Question Is a multicomponent vaccine against seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-2 (mRNA-1083) immunogenic and well-tolerated in adults 50 years and older?

New bismuth-based organic-inorganic hybrid materials show exceptional sensitivity and long-term stability as X-ray detectors, significantly more sensitive than commercial X-ray detectors. In addition, these materials can be produced without solvents by ball milling, a mechanochemical synthesis process that is environmentally friendly and scalable. More sensitive detectors would allow for a reduction in the radiation exposure during X-ray examinations.

For all of you histology and clinical laboratory nerds, there is now a pathology community on mander.xyz. This will be the third pathology community on Lemmy, with the other two currently being unmaintained. Drop by for some pretty purple/pink stuff.

The last type of chemotherapy that David Easton tried in his five-year fight against prostate cancer left him living a life that was really no life at all.

Computed tomography scans have become vital, even lifesaving, medical imaging for diagnosing and monitoring health conditions. But they do expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels linked to higher risks of cancer. In a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers tried to estimate what those higher risks are exactly—and although the estimates come with uncertainty, they may seem startling.