Abigail Brooks

2 weeks ago | consultantlive.com | Abigail Brooks

New research suggests metabolic syndrome (MetS) is highly prevalent and associated with increased levels of pain catastrophizing in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).1 Study findings suggest MetS negatively impacts overall pain catastrophizing, as measured by the Pain Catastrophizing Scale, as well as its individual components, including helplessness, rumination, and magnification.1 A type of arthritis that typically affects people with psoriasis or a biological family history of...

2 weeks ago | consultantlive.com | Abigail Brooks

Individuals with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) may benefit from greater volume and intensity of physical activity as well as maintaining normal rest-activity rhythm, according to findings from a recent study.1 Leveraging data from the UK Biobank, the population-based cohort study found higher levels of volume and intensity of physical activity and normal rest-activity rhythm were associated with a reduced risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease...

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Erik Ortiz |Ben Kamisar |Abigail Brooks

Several district attorneys have considered charging former death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden months after a White House executive order called on them to do so. So far, a Louisiana prosecutor successfully sought a first-degree murder charge against Thomas Steven Sanders in the death of a 12-year-old girl who was killed in Catahoula Parish in 2010.

2 weeks ago | farragomagazine.com | Abigail Brooks

Art by Gunjan Ahluwalia It was Friday, and I was set to leave work early. I had been useless in the office, utterly, utterly: when I steadied my hands by the desktop’s strobe-light, poising them expectantly above the keyboard, they wandered, inevitably, back onto my lap. My head pounded. It was becoming clearer by the hour that my efforts to concentrate were futile.

2 weeks ago | consultantlive.com | Abigail Brooks

New research is shedding light on the utility of prophylactic administration of IV magnesium for reducing the risk of cisplatin-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with cancer initiating cisplatin chemotherapy.1 The multicenter study involved > 13,000 patients treated with a first dose of IV cisplatin at 5 major cancer centers across the US and found receipt of prophylactic IV magnesium was independently associated with a lower risk of cisplatin associated-AKI compared to those...