progscrape: medicine

A 65-year-old woman ended up in the ER with "Happy Heart Syndrome" after her daughter's wedding, a rare case where overwhelming joy temporarily weakened her heart muscle

56 days ago sciencealert.com medicine

Oxytocin nasal spray may help people with borderline personality disorder engage in self-compassion meditation

59 days ago psypost.org medicine

Rapid-acting antidepressants such as ketamine and psilocybin appear to reduce treatment-resistant depression by altering immune-brain signaling, with shared immune biomarkers that may help predict which patients are most likely to benefit from these treatments

44 days ago mdanderson.org medicine psilocybin

A new clinical trial reports that taking the diabetes drug metformin may halve the risk of long COVID; another trial finds 40% risk reduction with Paxlovid

44 days ago nature.com covid diabetes medicine trial

Scientist develop a drug-delivery strategy that release endogenous growth proteins in response to cellular traction forces, accelerating wound healing in skin and bone repair

46 days ago nature.com medicine release

Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise

2 months ago news.ubc.ca medicine mrna

Long-standing continuity of care in general practice among adult patients is associated with reduced urgent hospital admissions and hospital costs in the Netherlands.

2 months ago doi.org medicine

Based on contemporary chronicles and an analysis of her portraits, Simonetta Vespucci, widely believed to have inspired Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus…

59 days ago onlinelibrary.wiley.com medicine

Study Finds NFL Players Four Times More Likely to Die Due to Neurodegenerative Disease

2 months ago massgeneralbrigham.org disease medicine

Contextualizing the Dead Donor Rule in an Era of Voluntary Euthanasia

2 months ago nejm.org medicine