Posts in Internal Medicine

Key Takeaways Gastroparesis means food stays in the stomach too long with no blockage to explain it, and its key symptoms are nausea or vomiting,[…]

Key Takeaways In a prospective ultrasound study of 220 surgical patients who had fasted by standard rules, 40 percent of those who had taken semaglutide[…]

Key Takeaways: The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends a yearly low-dose CT scan for adults aged 50 to 80 with at least a 20[…]

Key Takeaways: In a meta-analysis of 12 studies and 6,369 people, about 54 percent of people with type 2 diabetes had fatty pancreas, meaning excess[…]

Key Takeaways: In a pathology series that examined the fallopian tubes in full, 71% of pelvic serous carcinomas classified as ovarian involved the lining of[…]

Key Takeaways: In psoriasis, inflammatory dendritic cells in the skin release IL-23 and IL-12, which activate IL-17-producing T cells along with Th1 and Th22 cells;[…]

A hepatitis C cure now takes 8 to 12 weeks of pills, with cure rates above 95 percent. Every adult 18 to 79 should be[…]

Lipoprotein insulin resistance, scored as LP-IR, reads insulin resistance in cholesterol particles before glucose rises. Here is what the test can add.

Breast density hides cancers on mammograms and raises risk on its own. Here is what the density line on your report means and when extra[…]

The FIB-4 index turns age, AST, ALT, and platelets into a fibrosis score; below 1.3 it largely rules out advanced scarring, even when ALT looks