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Industry Payments to Peer Reviewers Scrutinized at Four Major Medical Journals
Major medical journals relied on peer reviewers who received more than $64 million in non-research payments between 2020 and 2022.
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Childhood-Onset Atopic Dermatitis Adds Burden in Adulthood
The Scars of Life project was designed to analyze how the age of AD onset affects the severity of symptoms and quality of life.
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Black Children With Vitiligo at Increased Risk for Psychiatric Disorders: Study
Researchers conducted a retrospective, single-center, case-control study of 327 Black children with vitiligo and 981 matched controls without...
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Neurofibromatosis: What Affects Quality of Life Most?
“To develop effective therapeutics, meaningful clinical outcomes that are tied with improvement in QoL for persons with NF1 must be clearly...
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Evidence Growing for Inflammation’s Role in Elevating Risk for Psychiatric Illness
New research further supports a role for inflammation in the development of psychiatric disorders, in findings that may aid in the early...
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When Childhood Cancer Survivors Face Sexual Challenges
The disruptions caused by cancer and its treatment can interfere with normal physiological and psychological development, leading to issues with...
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Is There a Role for GLP-1s in Neurology and Psychiatry?
In the next 5 years, we will learn whether GLP-1 or GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonists are the new wonder drugs in medicine.
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Regularly Drinking Alcohol After Age 60 Linked to Early Death
High-risk drinking was linked to a 33% increased risk of early death, a 39% increased risk of dying from cancer, and a 21% increased risk of dying...
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How Clinicians Can Help Patients Navigate Psychedelics/Microdosing
Responding to patient inquiries about microdosing can be complicated, and clinicians must provide counsel on issues of legality and therapeutic...
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Can Addressing Depression Reduce Chemo Toxicity in Older Adults?
Researchers evaluated whether greater reductions in grade 3 chemotherapy-related toxicities occurred with geriatric assessment-driven...
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Psychiatric, Autoimmune Comorbidities Increased in Patients with Alopecia Areata
Overall, patients with AA showed a greater prevalence of any psychiatric disease and any immune-mediated or autoimmune disease.