Jennifer R. Southall

Gestational diabetes led to an increased risk for asthma exacerbations during pregnancy among a cohort of women with pre-existing asthma, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.The findings indicate a need for early universal screening and interventions to improve blood glucose control among this population of pregnant women, researchers concluded.

High maternal daily caffeine intake led to a lower risk for asthma in children, according to study results.However, researchers recommended additional research to further assess the association between maternal caffeine intake and childhood asthma given “caffeine’s potential adverse effects on other health outcomes.”

Physicians often experience increased interest and comfortability in patients broaching a health topic once a celebrity talks about it openly in the public eye. Princess Kate Middleton recently going public about her cancer remission and experiencing late adverse events from treatment is no exception.

Researchers project a hospital bed shortage in less than a decade due to health care staffing shortages across the U.S., according to study results.“When occupancy rates are high, hospital mortality [increases], so if our projections turn out to be correct, we could be facing tens to hundreds of thousands of excess deaths per year,” Catherine A. Sarkisian, MD, MSHS, professor at UCLA

Older parental age at delivery increased the risk for certain childhood allergic diseases in offspring, according to study results.“These findings are significant given the rising age of parents and increasing prevalence of childhood allergic diseases,” Ye Zhang, MS, researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine School of Public Health, Shanghai, China, and colleagues

The deportation of immigrant workers and restrictions on immigration could negatively affect health care in the United States, according to study results published in JAMA.“Mass deportations and scaring away new immigrants will harm American’s medical care,” Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, distinguished professor of public health at City University of New York’s Hunter

Neoadjuvant semaglutide showed no benefit in weight loss, diabetes remission or safety in a cohort of patients who underwent metabolic and bariatric surgery, according to study results published in JAMA Surgery. “We found that treating patients before bariatric surgery with semaglutide, one of the new GLP-1 medications, did not improve patient overall outcomes — either weight loss or

Blocking mobile internet on mobile devices for 2 weeks improved subjective well-being, as well as mental health and the ability to sustain attention, according to study results.Of note, study participants who did not fully comply with the intervention still experienced more modest, but significant improvements, researchers concluded.

The Kinder Foundation has gifted $150 million to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Children’s Hospital to create Kinder Children’s Cancer Center, according to a press release.The center, set to launch early 2026, will be based in a new medical facility in Houston. It will offer inpatient beds, ambulatory care and state-of-the-art research labs for pediatric

CHICAGO — First-line treatment with sacituzumab govitecan plus pembrolizumab showed significant improvement in PFS vs. chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab among patients with metastatic triple-negative PD-L1-positive breast cancer.Primary results from the global, randomized, phase 3 ASCENT-04/KEYNOTE-D19 trial, presented at ASCO Annual Meeting, also showed no new safety issues with sacituzumab