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New Device Treats Ear Infections Without General Anesthesia
Tusker Medical’s Tubes Under Local Anesthesia (Tula) System recently gained approval from the FDA to be used as an alternative treatment for recurrent ear infections.
After a study of more than 200 pediatric patients yielded...
Study Indicates Social Media Use May Not Be as Closely Linked With Anxiety and Depression as Previously Thought
Research from Brigham Young University finds that quality of social media engagement and not social media usage itself may be the determining factor in its effect on young people.
Study Underscores the Difficulty of Diagnosing Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is often misdiagnosed, with potentially far-reaching consequences, but early referral to a specialty clinic for a second opinion can help alleviate the problem, according to a new study.
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Increasing Exercise May Reduce Depression Despite Genetic Predisposition
People who are genetically predisposed to depression may be able to counteract their increased risk by exercising more, according to Harvard University researchers.
In a new study published in Depression and...
Additional Surgical Procedure Linked to Better ACL Reconstruction Outcomes
The lateral extra-articular tenodesis (LET) procedure, when performed in conjunction with ACL reconstruction, may reduce young athletes’ risk of graft failure and reinjury, according to a recent clinical trial.
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Surgery Counteracts Effects of Acute Flaccid Myelitis
Young patients with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) — a subtype of transverse myelitis — regained arm function after undergoing nerve transfer surgery, according to the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS).
Most patients with AFM...
New Study Explores Association Between Paternal Smoking and Congenital Heart Defects in Babies
Babies born to fathers who smoke are more likely to have congenital heart defects, according to a recently published study.
Winning the Waiting (Room) Game
A certain gloom attaches to waiting rooms. The cheerlessness can be compounded when it’s a medical office waiting room.
Misdiagnosing Pediatric Sleep-Disordered Breathing
An estimated nine out of 10 children with sleep-disordered breathing are undiagnosed, often because physicians attribute symptoms to behavioral issues rather than to common sleep issues such as sleep apnea, according to a recent study in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA).
Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Adolescent Bariatric Surgery
New research finds that following bariatric surgery, severely obese adolescents are more likely than their adult counterparts to experience complete remission of key comorbidities.
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