Omitting Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Early Breast Cancer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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Patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) due to the MT-ND4 gene variant treated with the gene therapy lenadogene nolparvovec in...