Flu-Like Mystery Disease in Congo Could Be More Than Just Malaria
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A man in western Congo died Thursday with hemorrhagic fever symptoms, leading officials to suspect that a still-unidentified virus may be...
Mail-Order Stool Testing for IBD Favorable to Patients
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ORLANDO — Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample...
Ex-Wife of Ambushed Doc Arrested; Gender-Affirming Care Suit; COVID Testing Scheme
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The ex-wife of a Los Angeles doctor who was murdered in an ambush outside his office has been arrested for the...
FDA Approves Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy for Refractory Acute GVHD in Kids
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Reaching the end of a long road to approval, the first mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy for steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease...
Mosunetuzumab in Follicular Lymphoma: Durable Responses and Manageable Safety
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At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting, updated data on mosunetuzumab (Lunsumio) in relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma revealed durable...
FDA OKs Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy for GVHD
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved remestemcel-L (Ryoncil, Mesoblast Ltd), an allogeneic bone marrow‒derived mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC)...
Tirzepatide Officially Off FDA’s Shortage List
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The shortage of the diabetes and obesity injectable tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) has been resolved, the FDA announced Thursday. As a result,...
A Letter to Healthcare Leaders on ‘Transforming’ the System
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Singer is executive director of a healthcare consultancy. In any industry, there’s a boundary of performance for which the operational state-of-the-art...
U.S. Deaths Are Down and Life Expectancy Is Up, but Improvements Are Slowing
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U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggest there may be another — much smaller — improvement this year....
Evolving Testing and Diagnostic Paradigms in Alzheimer’s Disease
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The author of this article is an employee of Eli Lilly and Company. Every 65 seconds, someone in the U.S. develops...
Fitness Watch Bands Laden With PFHxA May Pose Health Risks
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TOPLINE: Perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) is found in fluoroelastomer watch bands at concentrations of up to 16,662 ng/g, highlighting the need for...
Vedolizumab Edges Out Infliximab for Ulcerative Colitis in Real-World Study
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ORLANDO — Vedolizumab (Entyvio) and infliximab (Remicade) led to mostly similar 1-year outcomes in patients with ulcerative colitis previously untreated with...
Despite Strong Data, Hypofractionated Radiation Underused
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In recent years, hypofractionated radiation has eclipsed conventionally fractionated radiation as the preferred treatment option for a range of cancer types,...
More Americans Than Ever Suffer from Chronic Pain
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More Americans than ever are hurting with enduring, life-restricting pain. Like obesity, this condition is on the rise, according to figures...
Physician Union Drives Have Skyrocketed, Data Show
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While fewer than 10% of US physicians are unionized, the number of official union drives among private-sector doctors have skyrocketed in...
Post-Remission, Skip Stem Cell Transplant?
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Patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who show undetectable minimal residual disease (MRD) after initial treatment with chemotherapy show no significant...
Europe Forms Alcohol Health Alliance to Reduce Alcohol Harms
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The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) and the European Association for the Study of the Liver held a...
Enticing Rural Residents to Practice Where They Train
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Andrew Fry, MD, grew up in a small rural Pennsylvania community about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg. He completed medical school...
Noninvasive Microbiome Test May Identify Crohn’s and UC
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International researchers have uncovered potentially diagnostic gut microbiome signatures and metabolic pathways associated specifically with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease...
T-DXd Effective in HR+/HER2-Low BC After Endocrine Failure
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New analysis of the DESTINY-Breast06 trial demonstrated that trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) provides meaningful clinical benefit regardless of time to progression on...
Should Patients With Thyroid Issues Take GLP-1s? It Depends
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Clinicians frequently reach out to Catherine Varney, DO, asking if it’s safe to prescribe glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs)...
OUD Care Improved with Nurse Support, Use of Opioid Agonists
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Employing a nurse care manager to work with patients who have an opioid addiction and prescribing partial or full opioid agonists...
Skin Cancer Risk Increased After Blood or Marrow Transplant
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TOPLINE: Survivors of blood or marrow transplant (BMT) face a significant risk of developing cutaneous malignant neoplasms, including basal cell carcinoma...
Allergic Contact Dermatitis: New Culprits
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New allergens responsible for contact dermatitis emerge regularly. During the Dermatology Days of Paris 2024 conference, Angèle Soria, MD, PhD, a...
Can AI Tool Guide CDK4/6 Inhibitor Use in Breast Cancer?
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SAN ANTONIO — A machine learning model, which incorporates both clinical and genomic factors, helps predict which patients with hormone receptor–positive...
Online Intervention Offers Hope for Epilepsy Stigma
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LOS ANGELES — A new online intervention called RISE ABOVE aims to help people with epilepsy overcome internalized stigma, and a...
New POI Guideline Streamlines Diagnosis
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An updated guideline for the management of premature/primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) simplifies criteria for an early diagnosis to better inform treatment....
Infants Exposed to Minoxidil May Develop Hypertrichosis
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In April 2023, the Navarra Pharmacovigilance Center (NPC) became aware of a case involving an infant who developed progressive hair growth...
Hospices in England to receive £100m funding
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Hospices in England are to receive £100m of government funding over two years to improve end-of-life care, Health Secretary Wes Streeting...
Morphine ‘didn’t touch sides’ for Aberdare woman
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“What I go through is not normal, but it is normalised,” says Emily “It felt like being stabbed, I’d be on...
Virtual UTI Care Linked to Rising Antibiotic Use
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TOPLINE: Virtual visits for urinary tract infection (UTI) increased by more than 600% from 2015 to 2022, with overall UTI encounters...
Physical Exams Add Less Than 5 Minutes to Neurology Consults
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A hands-on neurological examination adds The findings, published online on December 4 in Neurology: Clinical Practice, appear to support earlier claims...
Camrelizumab Helpful Addition to Breast Cancer Treatment
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TOPLINE: Adding camrelizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy increases pathological complete response rate to 56.8% vs 44.7% with placebo in early or locally...
Cannabis Use in Pregnancy Fails to Ease Mental Health Issues
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TOPLINE: Among 504 pregnant individuals, 46.8% reported using cannabis during pregnancy, with 58.1% citing mental health reasons. Cannabis use did not...
Time for Standard Alert-Based PRO Monitoring in BC
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SAN ANTONIO — Weekly patient-reported outcomes monitoring combined with an automated alert system improved fatigue and overall quality of life and...
Mother behind Martha’s Rule shares scheme’s early success
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Merope Mills Merope Mills began her campaign after an inquest found a change of care plan could have saved Martha’s life...
Alzheimer’s Mortality Lowest for Taxi, Ambulance Drivers
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Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers — two groups of people with jobs that require frequent spatial and navigational processing — had...
UnitedHealth Strategically Limits Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
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Parents Lose Sleep to Kids’ Eczema
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Parents of children with eczema are more likely to be short on sleep and to use medication to try to get...
You Can Tell SpA Patients That TNF Inhibitors May Cut Fracture Risk
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Patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) treated with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors were at significantly lower risk for hip and spine...
Skipping Chest-Wall Irradiation After Mastectomy in Intermediate-Risk Breast Cancer
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SAN ANTONIO — Postmastectomy chest-wall irradiation (CWI) for intermediate-risk breast cancer had no impact on long-term survival, results of a large...
Trump Says He’ll Preserve Access to Polio Vaccine, Equivocated on Other Shots
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President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio...
Major Congenital Heart Defects in Fetus Linked to Worse Obstetric Outcomes
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Pregnancies with fetal major congenital heart defects (CHDs) had significantly higher rates of poor obstetric outcomes than those without defects, a...
Cosibelimab OK’d for Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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The FDA approved cosibelimab (Unloxcyt) for treating metastatic or locally advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) in adults who are not...
Experts Debate AQUILA Trial Findings in Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
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Treating high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma with single-agent daratumumab (Darzalex) delayed progression to active myeloma, according to findings from the phase III...
Plastic chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide
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Plastic food packaging can expose people to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) Shutterstock/Trong Nguyen Hundreds of thousands of deaths and...
New Technology + More Resources = More Empowered Primary Care Physicians
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Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 years....
FDA Approves Topical Tapinarof for Atopic Dermatitis
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved tapinarof cream, 1% for the treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD) in adults...
FDA Approves Cosibelimab for Cutaneous SCC
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the immune checkpoint inhibitor cosibelimab (Unloxcyt; Checkpoint Therapeutics, Inc.) for the treatment...
How ‘General Hospital’ Missed a Chance to Promote Living Organ Donation
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Dwass is a health writer and book author. In the 60+ years that it’s been on the air, the daytime ABC...