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North Carolina Compounder Recalls Tirzepatide Vials Nationwide Over Sterility Concerns, with Lots Dated Through Late November

Apothecary Pharma recalled 22 compounded tirzepatide vials nationwide over sterility concerns. Check the lot numbers and infection signs to watch.

Medical Daily · Oct 21

Conversation Cards Were Linked to Better Medicine Use in Connecticut Diabetes Trial, but Blood Sugar Did Not Improve

In a New Haven trial, simple conversation cards were linked to better diabetes medicine use but did not lower blood sugar or ease the burden of the disease.

Medical Daily · Oct 21

5 Fatty Liver Subtypes Could Change How Doctors Assess Risk

Two people can receive the same fatty liver diagnosis but face very different health risks. One may have a relatively mild condition, while another could be more vulnerable to serious liver damage, heart disease or other complications. Scientists at Mayo Clinic have now identified five biologically distinct subtypes of metabolic…

MyLifeXP · Oct 21

What to Do in the First 2 Minutes of Someone Else's Seizure

The First Thing You Do Is Nothing Dramatic Do not grab them. Do not try to stop the shaking. Do not hold their arms down or pin their legs. The convulsion is a wave of electrical misfiring across the brain, the body is going where it is going, and force…

Times Life · Oct 20

Your Dad Had a Heart Attack at 55 — What Should You Be Doing at 45?

Your dad had a heart attack at 55, and now you’re 45. You have a decade before you reach his age when everything changed, but that doesn’t mean you have ten years to ignore the subject. A parent’s early heart attack can signal an increased inherited risk, particularly when cholesterol…

Clever Dude · Oct 19

7 Ramlila Ground Health Risks That Have Nothing to Do With the Food Stalls

The Smoke Is Not Just AtmosphereThe effigy fire at a large Ramlila ground can release particulate matter at levels comparable to a moderate industrial event. Burning bamboo, cloth, paper mache, and chemical-based paints produce fine particles, PM2.5 and coarser PM10, that travel deep into the lungs. People with asthma, chronic…

Times Life · Oct 19

How a False Medical Claim Turned the Tokay Gecko Into a Trafficking Target

A Lizard That Announces ItselfThe Tokay gecko does not hide. At up to 35 centimetres long and coloured a vivid blue-grey spotted with orange-red, Gekko gecko is built to be noticed. Its call, a loud, two-syllable bark that sounds like its own name, carries across rooftops and through walls on…

Times Life · Oct 17

A Young Man's Itchy Netlike Rash Was Traced to Keto, and Doctors Have Seen It After Fasting Too

A 20-year-old's itchy, netlike rash was traced to his keto diet. The same rare rash has been tied to fasting, diabetes, and eating disorders.

Medical Daily · Oct 16

Navigators Raised Diabetes Screening to 94% From 40% in Small Group of Chicago Medicaid Patients After Gestational Diabetes

A Chicago trial found postpartum navigators raised diabetes screening after gestational diabetes to 94% from 40%, though the trial missed its main goal.

Medical Daily · Oct 16

The eye condition that may signal dementia years before memory begins to fail

Researchers find retinopathy can’t simply coexist with cognitive decline but must precede it

The Independent UK · Oct 16