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Achieving Long-Term Success in Recurrent Rhinophyma
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (313+ words) Conexiant A modified deep tangential excision may prevent recurrent rhinophyma in patients whose disease persists following prior surgical treatment, according to a case report Researchers reported that the approach removed hyperplastic psilosebaceous tissue to a deep dermal plane while preserving…...
VR Perimetry May Match HVF in Glaucoma
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (257+ words) Virtual reality testing shortened visual field exams and was preferred among most patients in a retrospective study. Virtual reality perimetry may produce visual field measurements comparable to Humphrey Visual Field testing while reducing testing time by more than half in…...
How Many US Clinicians Come From Banned Countries?
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (375+ words) Counties with at least one clinician from a banned country were more likely to be designated primary care shortage areas. Physicians and nurses from 19 countries affected by a December 2025 US immigration ban accounted for 23, 745 physicians and 56, 332 nurses in the US…...
Early Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (196+ words) In a multicenter registry study, genetic diagnoses were associated with substantially lower cognitive, language, and motor scores; while birth weight, surgical timing, hospitalization burden, and caregiver education were also associated with outcomes. Pediatric patients with congenital heart disease and a…...
Consensus Guidance May Improve Sinonasal Mass Outcomes
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (301+ words) A multidisciplinary expert panel developed consensus-driven recommendations for the evaluation and workup of sinonasal masses, with guidance focused on avoiding biopsy and management pitfalls that may complicate diagnosis and treatment. According to the researchers, 20 of the statements reached consensus during…...
Handwriting Kinematics Differentiate Cognitive Impairment
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (170+ words) A cognitively demanding dictation task could help differentiate older adults with cognitive impairment from cognitively healthy peers, whereas simpler handwriting exercises could show limited ability to distinguish the groups, according to a recent study. The participants completed two pen-control tasks…...
Cognition Associated With Future Depression Risk
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (169+ words) Lower cognition is associated with later depression in controls, while higher cognition is associated with relapse in remitted depression Participants with remitted depression had a higher risk of future depression compared with matched controls, while baseline cognitive performance was associated…...
Troponin Testing and Early MI Discharge
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (268+ words) In'a prespecified secondary analysis of the Point of Care Evaluation of High-Sensitivity Troponin study, researchers evaluated 987 adults with possible non'ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) who presented to three secondary and tertiary hospitals in Scotland from November 2022 to January 2025. The primary outcome…...
Not All Poststroke Cognitive Patterns Plateau
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (431+ words) Cognitive impairment following stroke was found to improve most within the first 6 months but continued to evolve during long-term follow-up, with recovery trajectories differing substantially across language, memory, attention, executive function, and number processing domains, according to a longitudinal cohort…...
Surgery May Improve Outcomes in Arm Fractures
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (1047+ words) Conexiant Surgical treatment may be associated with better 1-year patient-reported outcomes compared with nonsurgical management in patients with distal radius fractures classified as Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Osteosynthesefragen 23-C2 and 23-C3, according to a national Swedish cohort study The association was observed primarily in…...