Melanoma Mortality Rises at 0.8-mm Thickness, Study Finds
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TOPLINE: The risk for melanoma-related death was higher in individuals with tumors with a Breslow thickness of 0.8-1.0 mm than in...
Jamie Foxx Reveals Diagnosis; Genital Herpes Prevalence; Dr. Oz’s Stand on Medicare
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Jamie Foxx revealed details about his 2023 near-death experience, saying he had...
Tafasitamab-Based Combination Boosts PFS in Relapsed/Refractory Follicular Lymphoma
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SAN DIEGO — Adding the humanized CD19-targeted monoclonal antibody tafasitamab (Monjuvi) to a backbone of lenalidomide (Revlimid) and rituximab (Rituxan) resulted...
At-Home Sleep Tests or Overnight Lab Trip for Kids?
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In many parts of the country, children and their parents face months-long wait times for sleep tests at labs. With obesity...
Eight women develop cancer ‘after smear misread’
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Science Photo Library A further 11 women’s slides were found to have pre-cancerous changes in the cells when reviewed Eight women...
Eye Toxicities Are a Growing Concern With Certain ADCs
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Despite being a targeted therapy, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) can cause significant off-target toxicity to the eyes of patients being treated for...
Radiology Residencies: Hard to Find, Hard to Land
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Interest is up for radiology residencies, but available positions don’t match demand. Radiologists say the problem can be fixed. Medscape Medical...
What Now for Factor XI Inhibitors in AF
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Factor XI inhibition was potentially the Goldilocks anticoagulant target with the promise of a reduction in thrombotic risk without a significant increase...
Women Largely Unaware of ASM Risks, More Education Needed
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LOS ANGELES — The majority of women with epilepsy are inadequately educated about the potential risks associated with anti-seizure medications (ASMs),...
Med Schools Navigate Admissions in New Legal, Political Env
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A year and a half after the Supreme Court struck down the consideration of race or ethnicity in college admissions, the...
A Q&A With Daniel C. Butler, MD
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Daniel C. Butler, MD, is associate professor of dermatology and director of the new Inflammatory and Aging Skin Research Program in...
Burn Resuscitation Volume Linked to Neurologic Risk
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TOPLINE: Patients receiving > 200 mL/kg of fluid resuscitation for burn injuries show higher rates of worsening neurologic findings on imaging,...
USPSTF Updates Recommendations on Cervical Cancer Screening
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The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has posted a draft updated statement on cervical cancer screening. The statement is open...
Dying in the Hospital: A Necessary Choice?
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More than a third of all patients with cancer die in hospitals, a figure that has increased slightly in recent years,...
Your Guide to COVID Vaccines for 2024-2025
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Dec. 9, 2024 — The updated COVID vaccines for 2024-2025 are officially here, designed to target the latest variants and offer...
21 Gifts That Medical Students Want This Year
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After working hard all year, medical students deserve a restful break and holiday presents that are both practical and fun. You...
CGM Use, GLP-1s, Drinking Water Key of 2025 ADA Standards
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The American Diabetes Association (ADA)’s Standards of Care — 2025 offer new guidance on broader use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM),...
Bird flu suddenly got serious in 2024, infecting dozens of people
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Cattle herds across the US caught bird flu this year Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images A highly infectious type...
Do GLP-1s Lower VTE Risk in People With Type 2 Diabetes?
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Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists led to a significant reduction in the risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) among individuals with...
Early Oseltamivir Benefits Hospitalized Influenza Patients
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TOPLINE: Early treatment with oseltamivir on the same day as hospital admission was associated with fewer severe clinical outcomes, such as...
How Do Rheumatology PAs Stand Out Among Their Peers?
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TOPLINE: In recent years, the number of physician assistants (PAs) practicing in rheumatology has steadily increased, with most of them being...
Vertebral Fractures and Myeloma: Link Is Questionable
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SAN DIEGO — Incidentally discovered vertebral fractures are common on scans in the general population, while the absolute risk for multiple...
Meds Fail to Improve Survival in Comatose Cardiac Arrest
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TOPLINE: Compared with placebo or standard care, steroids, coenzyme Q10, and thiamine fail to reduce mortality rates in comatose survivors of...
Carer’s Allowance overpayment debt rises to £250m
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Outstanding debt from Carer’s Allowance overpayments rose to more than £250m last year, according to the government’s spending watchdog. The National...
‘I went in for a tackle and heard my neck snap’
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Luke Orton was playing in a rugby tournament in 2023 when his life changed forever Luke Orton was playing in a...
Services will close over National Insurance rise, Mencap tells BBC
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BBC Barry and Betty’s service is not under threat, but Mencap fears it will have to close others A leading charity...
State ‘Gold Card’ Laws Sound Good — But Are They Working?
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Have you wished you could be exempt from prior authorizations, especially because your procedures or prescriptions are almost always approved? That’s...
Generous Blood Transfusions Not Beneficial for Some With Burst Brain Aneurysms
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For people with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and anemia, there was no significant neurological benefit from getting red blood cell transfusions more...
USPSTF Plans Changes to Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) plans to add self-collected human papillomavirus (HPV) testing to its recommendations for cervical cancer...
More Beans, Less Red Meat: Nutritionists Weigh in on U.S. Dietary Guidelines
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Americans should eat more beans, peas, and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables, all while...
Some Kratom Products Contain Lead at Dangerous Levels for Children
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NEW ORLEANS — A large portion of products made with the herbal supplement kratom contained more lead than is safe for...
Brain Aging Biomarkers; Midlife Anxiety and Dementia Risk; Who Chose Assisted Dying?
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Researchers identified 13 proteins that predicted how quickly or slowly a person’s brain aged. (Nature Aging) Midlife anxiety was common decades...
HEARTS Act Gets Senate Vote; New Myocarditis Classes; Aftermath of PAD Device Scare
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The office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that this week he will bring the HEARTS Act, the bipartisan...
Arrhythmia Risk of Lamotrigine Questioned by Observational Data
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LOS ANGELES — The FDA’s warning about arrhythmia risk with lamotrigine (Lamictal) based on in vitro data wasn’t borne out in...
Transplantation Fails to Improve Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
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SAN DIEGO — Patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) after induction therapy did not live...
Half-Truths, Big Risks: The Dangers of an Incomplete Medical History
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Bitterman is an orthopedic surgeon. Honesty is the lifeblood of the doctor-patient relationship. Without it, even the most skilled physician is...
Benefits of Transplant for Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Add Up a Decade Later
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SAN DIEGO — Kids with sickle cell disease who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) had fewer serious disease complications along...
Masking Policies Show Clear Impact on Hospital-Onset Respiratory Infections
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In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Theodore Pak, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, discusses the findings from a...
What Happened to the Canadian Teen Who Became Critically Ill With H5N1 Bird Flu?
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Canadian public health officials closed their investigation into the teenager who became critically ill with the H5N1 bird flu virus, with...
Lentiviral Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Severe Hemophilia A
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SAN DIEGO — Results from a small single-center study showed that treatment with a gene therapy involving the use of lentiviral...
I Am Torn: Grappling With the Killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
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Young is a family medicine physician and nocturnist. I am torn. I have the devil whispering in one ear, telling me...
Alecensa (alectinib) Offers Hope for Certain Patients With ALK Positive NSCLC
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When Matt was diagnosed with ALK-positive (ALK+) metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC), his world turned upside down. It’s a moment...
Year in Review: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
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Developments in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) this year included the first CAR T-cell therapy approval for the chronic blood cancer, potential...
Suspect in UnitedHealthcare Killing Wrote ‘Parasites Simply Had it Coming’
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Police arrested a “strong person of interest” Monday in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after a quick-thinking McDonald’s employee...
Novel Drug Fails for Two Rare Seizure Disorders
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LOS ANGELES — The novel agent soticlestat flopped in a pair of phase III trials for rare seizure disorders, researchers reported...
AI Screening of Home Videos Proves Accurate for Infantile Seizure Detection
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LOS ANGELES — An artificial intelligence (AI) model accurately detected and ruled out infantile epileptic spasm syndrome in videos captured by...
Empathetic Phone Calls Help Vulnerable Diabetes Patients Lower HbA1c
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Empathy-oriented phone calls from laypersons helped patients with uncontrolled diabetes improve glycemic control, a parallel-arm superiority trial found. Among 260 participants,...
‘Parasites Simply Had it Coming’; Second U.S. Kid With Bird Flu? Rx for Solar...
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old suspect in last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO...
The Multipronged Problem of Candida auris
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Candida auris, a yeast-like fungus, is spreading globally, increasing the urgency for enhanced surveillance, new therapies, and more antimicrobial stewardship to...
Women Who Revolutionized Modern Medicine
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In the winter semester of 2023, there were 113,383 students enrolled in medical programs in Germany, 73,244 of whom were women....