FG Trade Latin//Getty Images CASUAL RELATIONSHIPS COME in all different shapes and sizes, depending on what we happen to be needing or looking for at any given moment. There’s the one-off hookup, the sneaky link (also known as the friends with benefits), and of course, the situationship. But while a situationship bears somewhat of a …
Rena Malik, MD, is a board-certified urologist specializing in Sexual Medicine, Hormone Health and Urogynecology. With more than 400 million YouTube views and 2.5 million social media followers, she is renowned for dispelling medical misinformation and making complex urological topics accessible. In her next column for Men’s Health, Malik breaks down the most common cause …
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Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — that don’t convey any information about the topic of the conversation itself. For many decades, linguists regarded such utterances as largely irrelevant noise, the flotsam and jetsam that accumulate on …
TOPLINE: Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) vs usual care for acute ischemic stroke due to medium-vessel occlusion did not improve outcomes at 90 days and was linked to increased mortality. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a multicenter, prospective, randomized, open-label trial including 530 patients across five countries between 2022 and 2024. Participants with acute ischemic stroke due to medium-vessel …
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Key Takeaways A woman in her late 30s presented with a complaint of not being able to palpate the subdermal contraceptive implant in her left arm, which was inserted 6 years earlier. An x-ray revealed a radiodensity above the left lower lobe, and a CT scan confirmed migration into a subsegmental artery. As the patient …
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Sleep affects multiple physiological systems; however, a comprehensive overview has not yet been reported. A study published in Nature Medicine analyzed sleep characteristics in adults and their associations between sleep traits and body characteristics across 16 body systems. Researchers led by Eran Segal, PhD, from the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute …
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As biomarker testing for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) evolves, timely and compassionate disclosure of a diagnosis is more complex than ever. Yet, clinicians may struggle with how — or in some cases whether — to disclose that a patient has mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. A recent perspective offers a practical roadmap to help clinicians …
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THROUGH THE YEARS, all different kinds of films have come to be known as an “Oscar Movie.” You may not think of horror when you think of an “Oscar Movie,” but that didn’t get in the way of The Exorcist or Get Out when it came time to earn a Best Picture nomination. You might …
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INTIMACY COORDINATORS HAVE been a bit of a hot topic this Oscar season. During Variety‘s annual Actors on Actors series, Mikey Madison revealed that she chose not to use an intimacy coordinator when the option was presented to her while playing a sex worker in Anora, leading to discourse online surrounding the validity of that …
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ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER supplement popping off on social media. This time, everyone is gassing up L-tyrosine. This trendy supplement also has the backing of health and fitness icons like The Rock and Andrew Huberman. So there must be some legitimacy to it, right? As Alex Larson, R.D., says, L-tyrosine is having a moment in the …
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