Turns Out That Biosimilars Do Impact Biologic Drug Costs
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Introduction of biosimilars for the rheumatology drug adalimumab, whose original branded version Humira has long been a blockbuster, appears to have...
FDA Revokes EUAs of Four COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies
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The FDA on Friday revoked the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of four monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19. The four drugs — bebtelovimab,...
Sleep Apnea Patients Have Higher Rates of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was linked to a more than twofold risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a retrospective...
Dementia Incidence Linked to Inflammatory Foods
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Diets higher in inflammatory foods were linked to increased dementia risk in older adults. Risks were higher for both all-cause dementia...
Hair Growth After Cancer; ‘Global’ Early-Onset CRC; Retifanlimab Boosts OS in NSCLC
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Oral minoxidil promoted hair regrowth with no serious side effects in women who had hair loss related to breast cancer treatment....
Better Quality of Life With RT vs Endocrine Therapy in Older Breast Cancer Patients
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SAN ANTONIO — Endocrine therapy after breast-conserving surgery was associated with worse health-related quality of life (HRQOL) compared with radiotherapy in...
Extra-Musculoskeletal Manifestations in Axial Spondyloarthritis
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The chronic back pain of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) may be accompanied after diagnosis by three primary extra-musculoskeletal manifestations — uveitis, psoriasis,...
Nancy Pelosi Hospitalized | MedPage Today
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been hospitalized after she “sustained an injury” during an official engagement in Luxembourg, according to...
FDA Advisors Say More Data Needed for RSV Vaccines in Young Kids
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FDA advisors said that more data are needed to fully understand if there are broader safety concerns related to use of...
MedPod Today: CEO Murder Shows Industry Risks; RFK Jr. Conspiracies; Gold Card Laws
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The following is a transcript of the podcast episode: Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody. Welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series where...
EMA Endorses Two ADHD Treatments for Children
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Two treatments for children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been recommended by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to receive marketing...
Self-Replicating mRNA Vaccine for COVID Prevention
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Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended granting marketing authorization for two drugs for preventing COVID-19: a monoclonal...
Rytelo Recommended in Europe for Myelodysplastic Syndromes
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given a positive recommendation for Rytelo (imetelstat) for the treatment of adult patients with transfusion-dependent...
Back Trouble, Brain Fog Bothered Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing, Posts Show
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After Luigi Mangione made the difficult decision to undergo spinal surgery last year for chronic back pain, he became a proponent...
No Apparent Harm From Omitting Lymph Node Dissection in Selected Breast Cancers
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SAN ANTONIO — Patients with early breast cancer who skipped axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) lived just as long as those...
Europe Approves Its First Drug for Von Hippel-Lindau Tumors
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that a new oral agent, Welireg (belzutifan), be granted conditional marketing authorization for treatment...
Emcitate Recommended for Peripheral Thyrotoxicosis in AHDS
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The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended granting marketing authorization for Emcitate (tiratricol)...
EMA Supports Expanding Use of Ofev to Pediatric ILDs
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended extending the use of Ofev (nintedanib) to include treating progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases...
RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Asks FDA to Pull Polio Vaccine; Pollution-VTE Link; H5N1 in Cats
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick health officials to serve...
Insurers Are Dictating Care and We’re Sick, Sick, Sick of It!
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N. Adam Brown is a practicing emergency physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare executive. He is the founder of ABIG Health, a healthcare...
Mpox became a global health emergency for the second time in 2024
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A Red Cross worker spraying chlorine-based disinfectant in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024 MOISE KASEREKA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock...
EMA Recommends Seladelpar for Primary Biliary Cholangitis
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting marketing authorization for Seladelpar Gilead (seladelpar lysine dihydrate) to treat primary biliary cholangitis...
Eight healthy habits could slow the ageing of your brain
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Exercise has many health benefits Jane Williams/Alamy Getting a good night’s sleep and other healthy habits could slow the biological ageing...
‘Urgent Need’ to Examine Anti-Seizure Medication Pricing
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LOS ANGELES — The median cost of brand-name anti-seizure medications (ASMs) in the United States almost doubled from 2013 to 2023,...
Common Supplements May Lead Youth to Steroid Use
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TOPLINE: Muscle-building dietary supplement (MBS) use among young men substantially increases the odds of subsequent anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) initiation. Users of...
Early Success Seen With CAR T-Cell Therapy for SSc
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TOPLINE: CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy shows potential to intercept fibrotic organ manifestations and improve disease measures in patients...
Imlunestrant Shows PFS Benefit in Advanced Breast Cancer
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SAN ANTONIO — Second-line treatment with imlunestrant improved progression-free survival compared with standard endocrine monotherapy in patients with advanced estrogen receptor...
Health Impacts of Micro- and Nanoplastics
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In preparation for a future international treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution, the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific...
Tamoxifen Reduces Risk for Invasive Recurrence of DCIS
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SAN ANTONIO — For patients with so-called “good-risk” ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who did not have radiation therapy after breast-conserving...
Indoor Tanning Not Tied to Melanoma Mutational Burden
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TOPLINE: Indoor tanning exposure was not associated with tumor mutational burden (TMB) in patients with cutaneous melanoma, in a retrospective cohort...
Rituximab and Abatacept May Contribute to Cancer Risk in RA
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TOPLINE: The initiation of biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs), particularly rituximab and abatacept, is associated with an increased...
Oral Doxycycline Shows Promise in Ocular Syphilis Care
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TOPLINE: Oral doxycycline (200 mg twice daily for 28 days) appears to be as effective as intravenous (IV) penicillin for the...
Kids’ Flu Vaccination Rates Continue to Plummet This Season
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Dec. 12, 2024 — The big drop in child flu vaccination rates last year appears to not be a blip. Just...
‘Chance Finding’ a True Breakthrough for Spinal Cord Injury?
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the lateral hypothalamus (LH) improves walking and promotes recovery in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI),...
Support for Omitting SLNB in Some Early Breast Cancers
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SAN ANTONIO — Recent findings from the INSEMA trial provided more evidence that omitting axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) does...
A sense of belonging aids our recovery
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Richard Donaldson Richard Donaldson is recovering from treatment A man who has been fighting prostate cancer has described how group fitness...
Psychologists and Psychotropic Rx: An Old Debate Heats Up
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Utah recently became the seventh state to allow trained psychologists to prescribe psychotropics, sparking hope among supporters but raising safety concerns...
Dexamethasone-Sparing Approach Helps Frail Older Adults
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Treated with a dexamethasone-sparing regimen, frail older adult patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) show significant reductions in disease progression...
Feds Take Aim at Dry-Cleaning Chemicals, Red Dye No. 3
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Health concerns have prompted the Environmental Protection Agency to ban certain chemicals used for dry cleaning and for making everyday products...
Abdominal Pain Common in Both Active and Quiescent UC
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TOPLINE: Abdominal pain is prevalent in patients with active and quiescent ulcerative colitis (UC), affects a higher proportion of patients during...
ARBs Cut Epilepsy Risk in Patients with Hypertension
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LOS ANGELES — Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) are more effective than other antihypertensive medications in reducing the risk for post-stroke epilepsy...
Orthostatic Rises in SBP Not Tied to Increased CVD
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TOPLINE: Among middle-aged adults in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, standing hypertension (systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mm...
E-Scooter, E-Bike Injuries Tripled in US Since 2019
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Emergency department visits due to e-scooter and e-bike injuries have tripled since 2019 in the United States, with roughly 10% of...
General Anesthesia for C-Sections: A Mental Health Risk?
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TOPLINE: The use of general anesthesia during cesarean deliveries is associated with an increased risk for postpartum depression (PPD) that necessitates...
NT-proBNP May Predict Atrial Fibrillation Risk Early
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TOPLINE: Elevated levels of N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), a key biomarker for diagnosing heart failure, show a nearly fourfold increased...
Who Leads Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivor Care?
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TOPLINE: Over half of breast cancer survivors (57.2%) report oncologist-led care more than 5 years posttreatment, while only 22.4% receive Primary...
The condition that makes people hate fidgeting
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Getty Images Hair twiddling can be distressing to watch if you have misokinesia “If I see someone tapping their fingers on...
Experts Weigh Benefits of Drug Price Negotiation and Other Price-Curbing Strategies
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Policy experts punched holes in drug companies’ claims that the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program will stunt innovation and weighed in...
Growing Price Tag Reported for Newer De Facto Stroke Lytic
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NEW ORLEANS — Tenecteplase in recent years outpaced alteplase as the stroke thrombolytic of choice at one large hospital system, despite...
Palbociclib Regimen Yields ‘Incredible’ PFS Gain in Metastatic Breast Cancer
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SAN ANTONIO — The addition of palbociclib (Ibrance) to current standard-of-care therapy following induction chemotherapy resulted in a significant and clinically...