Fremanezumab, a CGRP-targeting preventive therapy, may reduce prolonged sporadic hemiplegic migraine attacks, offering a promising option for patients with stroke-like symptoms and limited disease-specific treatments.

A novel stroke technique uses a stent retriever as a distal filter to capture emboli during carotid occlusion treatment, improving reperfusion, first-pass success, and procedural efficiency.

Amyloid buildup is a key Alzheimer’s marker, enabling earlier diagnosis and targeted treatments, but it does not fully explain disease progression and requires careful interpretation, monitoring, and individualized care.

Adding ibrutinib to frontline therapy improves failure-free survival in younger mantle cell lymphoma patients and may reduce routine transplant use, though infection and blood toxicity risks increase.

Maternal diabetes during pregnancy is linked to higher childhood epilepsy risk, highlighting the importance of glucose control, coordinated prenatal care, and early developmental monitoring for exposed children.

Long-term levothyroxine therapy in older adults may modestly reduce cardiovascular risk when carefully monitored, but clinicians must balance benefits with risks like atrial fibrillation and bone loss.

Long-term levothyroxine therapy in older adults may modestly reduce cardiovascular risk when carefully monitored, but clinicians must balance benefits with risks like atrial fibrillation and bone loss.

Healthcare data is transforming care by guiding clinical decisions, revealing disparities, integrating social determinants, and helping policymakers target resources to improve outcomes and expand equitable access.

Post-pandemic studies show rising adolescent self-harm, signaling urgent need for early screening, school-based mental health support, family involvement, and faster access to coordinated treatment and crisis care.

Proposed Medicare policies could restrict coverage for many peripheral nerve block procedures used in chronic pain care, raising concerns about reduced access to non-opioid treatments.