Omitting Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Early Breast Cancer

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/omitting-axillary-lymph-node-dissection-in-early-breast-cancer/ Recently, omission of axillary lymph node dissection among patients with early breast cancer has been found to have no detrimental effect...

Biomarker-Selected Treatment Shows Promise for Bladder Preservation in MIBC

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/biomarker-selected-treatment-shows-promise-for-bladder-preservation-in-mibc/ Biomarker-driven treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) led to a 2-year metastasis-free survival (MFS) rate that exceeded 70% in a phase...

New-Onset Epilepsy, Migraine Tied to Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/new-onset-epilepsy-migraine-tied-to-hypertensive-disorders-of-pregnancy/ Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were tied to higher risks of new-onset neurologic conditions later in life. Women with eclampsia had a...

Prompt Diagnosis, Management of Primary Biliary Cholangitis Key to Quality of Life

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/prompt-diagnosis-management-of-primary-biliary-cholangitis-key-to-quality-of-life/ Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) can deliver a significant blow to patients’ quality of life, especially if they are not appropriately diagnosed...

The Physician’s Role in Curing the Social Media Epidemic

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/the-physicians-role-in-curing-the-social-media-epidemic/ The healthcare profession has done an admirable job controlling infectious epidemics and pandemics, such as AIDS and COVID-19 (special shout-out to...

First Generic of Once-Daily GLP-1 Injection Approved for Diabetes

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/first-generic-of-once-daily-glp-1-injection-approved-for-diabetes/ The FDA has approved the first generic form of liraglutide (Victoza), a once-daily injectable for improving glycemic control in patients ages...

Study Underscores Caution for NSAID Use in Pregnancy

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/study-underscores-caution-for-nsaid-use-in-pregnancy/ Some gestational exposures to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may carry more chronic kidney disease (CKD) risk for the child than others,...

FDA Approves Second Generic Daily GLP-1 Drug for T2D

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/fda-approves-second-generic-daily-glp-1-drug-for-t2d/ The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic once-daily injectable version of the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA)...

How Cell Therapies Help Fight Solid Tumors

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/how-cell-therapies-help-fight-solid-tumors/ The cutting edge of treating solid tumors with cell therapies got notably sharper this year. First came the US Food and...

King and Firefighter Syndrome: Disaster Response Goes Beyond the Front Lines

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/king-and-firefighter-syndrome-disaster-response-goes-beyond-the-front-lines/ Hawkins is an associate professor of emergency medicine and an emergency medical services specialist. Eldridge is an assistant teaching professor of...

Specialty Board Certification Error Causes Headaches for Doctors

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/specialty-board-certification-error-causes-headaches-for-doctors/ Some doctors had a sleepless night when the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s (ABPN) online certification program locked them out...

Bariatric Surgeons Being Put Out of Work by GLP-1 Drugs

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/bariatric-surgeons-being-put-out-of-work-by-glp-1-drugs/ This story is part of a series called “Ozempic: Weighing the Risks and Benefits.” It was produced in part through a...

Patient Who Had No Luck With GLP-1 Drugs Found Success With Surgery

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/patient-who-had-no-luck-with-glp-1-drugs-found-success-with-surgery/ This story is part of a series called “Ozempic: Weighing the Risks and Benefits.” It was produced in part through a...

Forget aesthetics, the reason to look after our skin should be health

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/forget-aesthetics-the-reason-to-look-after-our-skin-should-be-health/ Dr Jeremy Burgess/Science Photo Library Our skin isn’t just our biggest organ, it is also the one we are most familiar...

New BCMA-Directed Therapies Show Promise in Multiple Myeloma

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/new-bcma-directed-therapies-show-promise-in-multiple-myeloma/ Data presented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting highlighted advances in B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed therapies, including ABBV-383,...

Adding Daratumumab to VRd Boosts MRD Negativity in Transplant-Ineligible Myeloma

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/adding-daratumumab-to-vrd-boosts-mrd-negativity-in-transplant-ineligible-myeloma/ In an analysis of the phase III CEPHEUS trial presented at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting, adding daratumumab (Darzalex)...

How to nurture your microbiome to look after your skin

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/how-to-nurture-your-microbiome-to-look-after-your-skin/ Mud therapy may help to replenish the beneficial bacteria in our skin microbiome Michael Zegers/imageBROKER.com GmbH & Co. KG/Alamy Look under...

QOL With Shorter RT Equal to Standard in Endometrial Cancer

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/qol-with-shorter-rt-equal-to-standard-in-endometrial-cancer/ TOPLINE: Short-course vaginal cuff brachytherapy (VCB) demonstrated noninferiority in quality of life for patients with early endometrial cancer vs standard regimens,...

Doc Suspected in Mass Killing; Vaccine Injury Claims Spike; Iowa Has First H5N1 Case

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/doc-suspected-in-mass-killing-vaccine-injury-claims-spike-iowa-has-first-h5n1-case/ Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A Saudi psychiatrist is suspected of deliberately bulldozing a car through a...

How your mental state and stress levels influence your skin

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/how-your-mental-state-and-stress-levels-influence-your-skin/ Academic anxiety can exacerbate dermatological conditions Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images Even if you don’t wear your heart on your sleeve, your skin...

The only four skincare ingredients that have been proven to work

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/the-only-four-skincare-ingredients-that-have-been-proven-to-work/ The choice of products promising to slow or reverse ageing can be overwhelming Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Whether you want...

FDA Updates ‘Healthy’ Claim for Foods — but Use Is Voluntary

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/fda-updates-healthy-claim-for-foods-but-use-is-voluntary/ The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule on December 19 that updates the “healthy” nutrient claim on...

Should the FDA Reconsider Antidepressant Black Box Warnings?

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/should-the-fda-reconsider-antidepressant-black-box-warnings/ For almost two decades, antidepressants have carried black box warnings linking the medications to an increased risk for suicidal thoughts and...

HCC-Related Mortality: New Leading Causes Predicted

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/hcc-related-mortality-new-leading-causes-predicted/ TOPLINE: Age-standardized mortality rates for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the United States are expected to rise from 5.03 per 100,000 persons...

Bleeds Plummet After Experimental Gene Therapy

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/bleeds-plummet-after-experimental-gene-therapy/ SAN DIEGO — Promising early results from an ongoing randomized, open-label, single-arm, Phase 3 study could pave the way for a...

FDA Adds Black Box Warning for Liver Injury to Fezolinetant

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/fda-adds-black-box-warning-for-liver-injury-to-fezolinetant/ The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a boxed warning about liver injury to fezolinetant (Veozah), a drug often prescribed...

Younger People and Long COVID: Underreported, Undertreated

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/younger-people-and-long-covid-underreported-undertreated/ John Bolecek, 41, of Richmond, Virginia, was diagnosed with long COVID in May of 2022. While his acute infection was mild,...

Self-Guided Online CBT Matches Clinician-Aided CBT for AD

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/self-guided-online-cbt-matches-clinician-aided-cbt-for-ad/ TOPLINE: A brief self-guided online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) intervention was noninferior to comprehensive clinician-guided CBT in reducing symptoms in patients...

Vitamin D3 Does Not Reduce T2D Risk in Healthy Seniors

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/vitamin-d3-does-not-reduce-t2d-risk-in-healthy-seniors/ TOPLINE: Long-term daily supplementation with moderate (1600 international units ) or high (3200 IU) doses of vitamin D3 doesn’t reduce the...

How Wildfire Smoke May Harm Brain Health

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/how-wildfire-smoke-may-harm-brain-health/ A growing body of research suggests that exposure to wildfire smoke can have detrimental effects not only on the heart and...

Soaring Pacemaker Demand Spurs Controversial New Approach

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/soaring-pacemaker-demand-spurs-controversial-new-approach/ CHICAGO — When a female patient received a pacemaker at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,...

Congress Adjourns Without Easing Medicare Doc Pay Cut

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/congress-adjourns-without-easing-medicare-doc-pay-cut/ Congress abandoned plans to ease 2025 Medicare payment cuts for clinicians in its stopgap spending bill, frustrating physicians who’ve long pressed...

Microplastics Pose Risks to Lungs

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/microplastics-pose-risks-to-lungs/ When Laura Sadofsky, PhD, a senior lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Hull, Hull, England, began looking at the...

Management of Children and Adolescents With Long-COVID

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/management-of-children-and-adolescents-with-long-covid/ Current management of children and adolescents with long-COVID was the focus of various presentations at the 3rd Long-COVID Congress in Berlin...

New Treatment Hopes for Vitiligo

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/new-treatment-hopes-for-vitiligo/ Advances in understanding the pathophysiology of vitiligo are transforming patient management, offering new hope for individuals with mild, moderate, and even...

Proteins in Plasma Linked to MI, Especially for Women

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/proteins-in-plasma-linked-to-mi-especially-for-women/ Forty-five circulating proteins in plasma are linked to the risk for myocardial infarction (MI), showed a new study that confirms some...

US Sees Rise in Life Expectancy After Pandemic Decline

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/us-sees-rise-in-life-expectancy-after-pandemic-decline/ COVID-19 continues to retreat from being a top cause of death in the US, and in turn, life expectancy last year...

Royal Papworth Hospital ‘lungs in a box’ could boost transplants

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/royal-papworth-hospital-lungs-in-a-box-could-boost-transplants/ Royal Papworth Hospital The machine, nicknamed “lungs in a box”, is designed to mimic the human body A new machine which...

Coffee, Tea Tied to Lower Risk of Head and Neck Cancer

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/coffee-tea-tied-to-lower-risk-of-head-and-neck-cancer/ In the latest statistical salvo of an ongoing debate, people who consumed more than four cups of caffeinated coffee daily had...

ART Use Rises Among US Medicare Enrollees Living With HIV

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/art-use-rises-among-us-medicare-enrollees-living-with-hiv/ TOPLINE:  Antiretroviral therapy (ART) prescription rates among Medicare enrollees living with HIV increased from 2007 to 2019. Although age-based disparities had...

Cash Is King — For Some Doctors

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/cash-is-king-for-some-doctors/ Once upon a time, patients would routinely arrive at your office with cash in hand. It looks like what’s old might...

Immunotherapy Timing in Early-Stage NSCLC?

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/immunotherapy-timing-in-early-stage-nsclc/ Do patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) benefit from continuing immunotherapy beyond surgery? The short answer: Oncologists don’t know...

NSAIDs Triple Time to Conception in Women With SpA

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/nsaids-triple-time-to-conception-in-women-with-spa/ TOPLINE: Subfertility is common in women with spondyloarthritis (SpA), with factors such as older age and use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs...

Novel JAK1 Inhibitor Hits the Mark in Arthritis Trial

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/novel-jak1-inhibitor-hits-the-mark-in-arthritis-trial/ TOPLINE: Ivarmacitinib, a novel Janus kinase 1 inhibitor, alleviates symptoms, reduces disease activity, and improves physical function and quality of life...

Low-Dose Hypobaric Anesthesia Shows Promise in Arthroplasty

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/low-dose-hypobaric-anesthesia-shows-promise-in-arthroplasty/ TOPLINE: Low-dose hypobaric mepivacaine and bupivacaine provide adequate spinal anesthesia for hip and knee arthroplasty, with 93% of patients completing surgery...

Doctors issue warning over water bead Christmas gifts for children

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/doctors-issue-warning-over-water-bead-christmas-gifts-for-children/ Emergency doctors in the UK have issued a safety warning over water beads, which could be given to children as gifts...

How Bird Flu Spread Unchecked, Posing a Pandemic Risk

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/how-bird-flu-spread-unchecked-posing-a-pandemic-risk/ Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October....

‘Everyone Knows Surgeons Brag About Having Steady Hands’: What We Heard This Week

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/everyone-knows-surgeons-brag-about-having-steady-hands-what-we-heard-this-week/ “Everyone knows surgeons brag about having steady hands, so we decided to put this to the test.” — Michael Drozd, MBChB,...

My Medical AI Holiday Wish List

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/my-medical-ai-holiday-wish-list/ Mary Meyer MD, MPH, is an emergency physician with The Permanente Medical Group. She also holds a Master of Public Health...

Gene Therapy Shows Long-Term Vision Benefits in Rare Eye Disease

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/gene-therapy-shows-long-term-vision-benefits-in-rare-eye-disease/ Patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) due to the MT-ND4 gene variant treated with the gene therapy lenadogene nolparvovec in...

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