July 2025

ACG Updates Guidance on Crohn’s Disease Management

July 1, 2025 / Clinical Practice / InnovateMed Author / Crohn's disease

The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) has issued updated guidance on the management of Crohn’s disease (CD) that reflects the surge in development of therapeutic options available since 2018, when the last guideline was published. These newer treatment options include interleukin-23 (IL-23) blockers risankizumab, mirikizumab, and guselkumab; the anti-IL-12/23 agent ustekinumab; the Janus kinase inhibitor […]

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The Negative Effects of Alcohol on Your Sleep

July 1, 2025 / Patient education / InnovateMed Author / alcohol

Written by Eric Patterson, LPC | Reviewed by Emily Guarnotta, PsyD Published on February 23, 2022 Key takeaways: You may think of alcohol as a sleep aid, but even small amounts at night can hurt your sleep. Alcohol can reduce your quality of sleep, the amount of time you sleep, and your daytime energy. There are some simple

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From Nuts to Beans, These Foods Help You Poop

July 1, 2025 / Patient education / InnovateMed Author / nuts

Written by Anne Jacobson, MD, MPH | Reviewed by Karen Hovav, MD, FAAP Updated on September 23, 2024 Key takeaways: Constipation is a common condition that can affect people of all ages. But that doesn’t always make it an easy subject to talk about. The foods we eat, especially how much fiber is in them, can impact how

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Mapping the dairy matrix: How the physical structures in dairy foods uniquely fuel the human body

July 1, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / mapping

by Eileen Leahy, Elsevier edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Credit: CC0 Public Domain How do we determine how healthy our food is? We know now that our nutrition shouldn’t just be measured in calories, or even in just macronutrients (the balance of fats, protein, and carbohydrates). An emerging body of research is instead demonstrating that

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The Longevity Paradox: Medicine Meets Silicon Valley

July 1, 2025 / Clinical Practice / InnovateMed Author / longevity paradox

For without friends, no one would choose to live.” – Aristotle Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA Last year, Bryan Johnson, a 46-year-old tech founder, spent 2 million dollars on a regimen that included monthly plasma transfusions from his teenage son. Why? Well, we live in an age when the wealthy inject themselves with young blood, undergo

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How Common Meds Secretly Wreck Your Patients’ Microbiome?

July 1, 2025 / Clinical Practice / InnovateMed Author / microbiome

Effective ways to combat harmful viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasitic worms have driven major advances in medicine and contributed to a significant increase in human life expectancy over the past century. However, as knowledge about the role of these microorganisms in promoting and maintaining health deepens, there is a need for a new look at

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Parkinson’s drug reduces symptoms in treatment-resistant depression, clinical trial finds

July 1, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / resistant depression

by University of Oxford edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Primary efficacy assessment of change from baseline in QIDS-SR16 total score at week 12. Credit: The Lancet Psychiatry (2025). DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(25)00194-4. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(25)00194-4/fulltext A drug used for Parkinson’s disease has been shown to be effective in reducing the symptoms of difficult to treat depression, according to a study led

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Discovery of key brain repair mechanism in vascular dementia reveals promising therapeutic target

July 1, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / vascular dementia

by University of California, Los Angeles edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study from UCLA Health has uncovered how inflammation in brain blood vessels exacerbates damage in vascular dementia and demonstrated that targeting this process with a repurposed drug can promote brain repair and functional recovery in mice. Published

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Landmark study investigates potential of Ambroxol, a cough medicine, to slow Parkinson’s-related dementia

July 1, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / Ambroxol

Researchers at Lawson Research Institute are studying Ambroxol – a common cough medicine in Europe – as a potential treatment for dementia linked to Parkinson’s disease Peer-Reviewed Publication Lawson Research Institute image: Dr. Stephen Pasternak, cognitive neurologist at Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph’s Health Care London, is lead author of a study suggesting Ambroxol,

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Traditional Medicare to add prior authorizations

July 1, 2025 / News update / InnovateMed Author / traditional medicare

By Maya Goldman Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Traditional Medicare is requiring more pre-treatment approvals in a bid to root out unnecessary care. The big picture: Medicare’s fee-for-service program hasn’t required prior authorizations to access most drugs or services, a major perk for enrollees. Prior authorization in privately run Medicare Advantage plans has become a hot-button issue for Congress

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