A recent study on over 300 chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) patients found that acupuncture might provide limited symptom relief, but the clinical significance remains unclear.…
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A study involving over 60,000 nurses revealed that individuals with an evening chronotype are at an elevated risk for diabetes and often engage in unhealthy…
Low-carb diet may help patients with diabetes achieve better weight loss and glucose control compared to a low-fat diet. Patients achieved better weight loss and…
According to a new study, moderate coffee drinkers were less likely to die than non-coffee drinkers. This held true even for people that sweeten their…
A large cohort study found that babies born to men who took metformin during the period of sperm development were at increased risk for birth…
Despite low absolute risk, Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute…
A target trial emulation study found that in an elderly population of U.S. veterans with high comorbidity burden, mRNA vaccine efficacy at preventing infection with…
A multicenter randomized trial showed that 20 sessions of acupuncture over 8 weeks resulted in greater improvement in symptoms of moderate to severe chronic prostatitis/chronic…
With adherence to masking and distancing, cases introduced into a school unlikely to lead to community transmission. A modeling study found that with controlled community…
A randomized controlled trial found that tai chi is about as effective as conventional exercise for reducing waist circumference in middle-aged and older adults with…
A systematic review of published research found that financial payments from the drug industry to U.S. physicians was associated with increased prescribing of the paying…
Researchers suggest ways to address challenges associated with measuring direct and indirect deaths attributable to COVID-19 pandemic. Estimating deaths from COVID-19 based on death certificate…
Findings suggest that national estimates of opioid overdose burden may be grossly underestimated. A 7-year comprehensive study of deaths attributed to out of hospital cardiac…
Findings confirm the robustness of the vaccine approval system and postmarketing surveillance. A comprehensive review of vaccine data over a 20-year period finds that vaccines…
A 4-week course of acupuncture increased self-reported relief and improvement of symptoms for patients with a subtype of indigestion known as postprandial distress syndrome (PDS).…
Researchers recommend adding travel history to the patient evaluation to identify risk for potential exposure to CoVID-19, or coronavirus. A commentary published in Annals of…