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Lisa O’Mary

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I cover medical and healthcare news, with a specialty in writing about clinical research and public health data.

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What Doctors Should Know About Autism ‘Unmasking’ in Girls

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By Lisa O’Mary
| Medscape Verified
The trend to stop hiding autistic symptoms and experiences — so-called “unmasking” — may help clinicians diagnose the condition, especially among teen girls and young women, experts say. Celebrities are revealing their autistic tendencies. The Netflix series “Love on the Spectrum” has been renewed for a fifth season. And neurodivergence clubs are forming on high school and college campuses. There are even influencers with autism.
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Pesquisas clínicas essenciais que talvez você não esteja lendo

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By Lisa O’Mary
| Conversa de médico
Após analisar quatro décadas de esforços infrutíferos no tratamento da anemia em meninas adolescentes nas favelas de Mumbai, na Índia, a Dra. Dylan Graetz aprendeu uma lição fundamental: às vezes, a medicina baseada em evidências, orientada exclusivamente por dados objetivos, pode não captar o verdadeiro cerne de uma questão.
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The Newest Frontier for GLP-1s: Clearing Skin Disease

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By Lisa O’Mary
| Medscape Verified
For years, conventional wisdom held that skin improvements among patients on GLP-1 medications were a byproduct of weight loss by regulating inflammation. But doctors are spotting a much more complex reality — and new research supported their observations. At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dermatologist Joe K. Tung, MD, MBA, noticed dramatic changes in his patients with psoriasis just starting a GLP-1. Their plaques began “melting away” within 2 days.
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