‘A Fascinating Medical Mystery’: What We Heard This Week

“It’s really a fascinating medical mystery.” — Rachel Rubin, MD, a sexual medicine specialist in Washington, D.C., discussing post-orgasmic illness syndrome.

“Would this be affecting the brain?” — Shahan Syed, MD, of Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, New Jersey, discussing possible effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists on mental health.

“Distress comes in different flavors.” — Daniel Karlin, MD, chief medical officer of MindMed in New York City, on the burden of undiagnosed anxiety.

“These individuals are desperate.” — Reisa Sperling, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, discussing Alzheimer’s disease risk in APOE4 homozygotes.

“The fact that it worked in a number of patients is very exciting.” — Mark Pennesi, MD, PhD, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, discussing gene editing therapy in CEP290-associated inherited retinal degeneration.

“That’s another crack in the system.” — Michael Kleinrock of IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, on rising rates of prescriptions from illegal online pharmacies.

“Typically, people who use olive oil for cooking or as a dressing have an overall better quality of their diet, but interestingly, we found the association to be regardless of this factor.” — Anne-Julie Tessier, RD, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, discussing a study that linked higher olive oil consumption with a lower risk of dementia-related death.

“Hypertension in children is not a benign condition.” — Rahul Chanchlani, MBBS, MD, MSc, of McMaster Children’s Hospital in Ontario, on long-term risks linked with high blood pressure in kids.

“It’s not going to matter.” — Paul Offit, MD, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, explaining why most clinicians do not run a diagnostic panel for suspected cases of rotavirus.

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