Real-World Data Question Low-Dose Steroid Use in Vasculitis
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TOPLINE: Compared with a standard dosing regimen, a reduced-dose glucocorticoid regimen is associated with an increased risk for disease progression, relapse,...
Delivery at 39 Weeks Optimal for Hypertensive Pregnancies
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TOPLINE: Among pregnant patients with chronic hypertension, delivery at 39 weeks of gestation provides an optimal balance between stillbirth risk and...
With Chemo, Blinatumomab Boosts DFS in Pediatric B-ALL
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SAN DIEGO — The addition of the bispecific T-cell engager blinatumomab (Blincyto) to chemotherapy greatly boosted 3-year disease-free survival (DFS) in...
Novel PTSD Treatment Improved Symptom Severity in Phase IIb Trial
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An investigational therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) improved symptom severity as soon as one month into a 12-week, phase IIb...
High-Fiber Diet Linked to Improved Stem Cell Transplant, GvHD Outcomes
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SAN DIEGO — Recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) for blood disorders who maintain diets high in fiber show significant...
‘You Don’t Just Shoot an Arrow at It’: What We Heard This Week
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“You don’t just shoot an arrow at it … you throw a grenade, fire a torpedo, and drown it all at...
Loncastuximab-Rituximab Boosts Response Rates in R/R Follicular Lymphoma
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SAN DIEGO — The combination of loncastuximab tesirine (Zynlonta) and rituximab achieved promising response rates in patients with relapsed or refractory...
Novel BTK Inhibitor Succeeds in Heavily Pretreated Immune Thrombocytopenia
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SAN DIEGO — Treatment with an investigational oral inhibitor of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) was safe and boosted platelet counts in...
IVIG Prophylaxis in Myeloma Cuts Infections, Ups Survival
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Patients with multiple myeloma who receive intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) prophylaxis during treatment with teclistamab have fewer infections and better overall survival...
Dietary Intervention Shows Promise in Blood Cancers
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SAN DIEGO — Increased dietary fiber had a significant association with improved outcomes in blood cancers, according to studies reported here....
Hospitalization Should Not Mean Financial Ruin for Medicare Beneficiaries
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Chatterjee is a physician, health policy researcher, and an assistant professor of medicine. Macneal is a statistical analyst. Patel is a...
GLP-1 Drugs Tied to Reduced Risk of Dangerous Blood Clots
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SAN DIEGO — Type 2 diabetes patients may have a lower risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) when treated with a GLP-1...
Are GLP-1 Drug Holidays a Risk Worth Taking?
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In part three of this three-part Instagram Live discussion, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, Karl Nadolsky, DO, and Fatima Cody...
Rilzabrutinib Shines in Phase 3 Trial of Tough-to-Treat ITP
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Phase 3 data support rilzabrutinib as a potential first-in-class oral Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor for patients with previously treated immune...
24-Hour Urine Testing in Multiple Myeloma: Time to Stop?
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Omitting 24-hour urine testing from multiple myeloma response assessments does not compromise accurate tracking of patients’ responses to treatment, a new...
Do Men or Women Benefit More From Short Bursts of Daily Activity?
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The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today,...
Bispecific Antibodies Fare Less Well in Real-World Analysis
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SAN DIEGO — Compared with clinical trials, a real-world retrospective analysis has linked the bispecific antibodies epcoritamab (Epkinly) and glofitamab (Columvi)...
Texting to Improve Adherence to CVD Medications; Detecting Maternal Cancers
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TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in...
Dual Targeted CAR-T Yields 99% Response Rate in Pediatric ALL
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SAN DIEGO — An investigational CAR T-cell therapy induced responses in nearly every single patient with childhood B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia...
New Standard for Newly Diagnosed Pediatric B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
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SAN DIEGO — Children with newly diagnosed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) lived significantly longer without disease recurrence when they received...
Eltrombopag Improves Outcomes in Kids With Newly Diagnosed ITP
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SAN DIEGO — Treatment with eltrombopag (Promacta) for pediatric patients with newly diagnosed immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) led to a significantly higher...
Weight Loss Drug Contrave Helped This Nurse Practitioner Lose 100 lbs
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Share on PinterestNurse practitioner Tim Nicaise tried everything to lose weight without success. Then his doctor prescribed the drug Contrave and...
Maternal Mortality Review Panels Are in the Spotlight: Here’s What They Do
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Efforts to reduce the nation’s persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate and learn from each...
Mum given 65 blood bags to save her life
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Adele Darlington A year on, Adele and her daughter Jasmine are looking forward to spending the Christmas holidays at home It...
USDA Orders Nationwide Testing of Milk for Bird Flu
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The U.S. government on Friday ordered testing of the nation’s milk supply for bird flu to better monitor the spread of...
Women’s CVD Risk Calculations Barely Budge When Sex-Specific Variables Are Included
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Female reproductive factors minimally impacted cardiovascular disease risk prediction models. Only female-specific factors as a group, not individually, were linked with...
UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Exposes Dark Reality for Industry Leadership
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The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson exposed a dark reality that many leaders in the healthcare industry have grown accustomed...
‘Brain Rot’ Becomes Word of the Year
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By many accounts, 2024 was a year of brain health, with researchers reporting ways to improve infant neurodevelopment and identifying new...
A Mystery Illness Has Killed Dozens in Congo. WHO Experts Are Now Investigating.
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KINSHASA, Congo — The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday it was deploying experts to investigate a mystery flu-like illness that...
Transgender Women More Likely to Suffer Injuries Than Cisgender Women
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Transgender women are more likely to experience injuries — often to the head, face, and chest — compared with cisgender women,...
JAK Inhibitor Comes Up Short in Phase III Crohn’s Disease Trial
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An investigational oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor failed to meet most primary endpoints in a phase III trial of patients with...
Should Pharmaceutical Companies Sell Weight-Loss Drugs Directly to Consumers?
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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...
Experts Wrestle Over Uses of PFAS During Senate Hearing
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Experts tussled over the need for stronger regulation of so-called “forever chemicals,” with some Republicans and one industry-backed witness raising concerns...
Kids With T1D Doing Better, But Still not Meeting Targets
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TOPLINE: International paediatric type 1 diabetes (T1D) registry data show improvement from 2013 to 2022 in average A1c and the proportion...
Infection Is the Third-Leading Cause of Death in T2D
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TOPLINE: People with type 2 diabetes (T2D) die from infections at a higher rate than similar people without diabetes, and the...
Self-Pay, AI-Enhanced Breast Cancer Screening Detected More Cancers
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Women who chose to enroll in a self-pay, artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced breast cancer screening program were more likely to have cancer...
Fostamatinib Fails to Improve Outcomes in Hypoxemic COVID Patients
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The spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor fostamatinib (Tavalisse) did not improve outcomes in adults hospitalized with COVID-19 and hypoxemia, according to a...
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Reverses Decision to Put a Time Limit on Anesthesia
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One of the country’s largest health insurers reversed a change in policy Thursday after widespread outcry, saying it would not tie...
Common Herbicide a Player in Neurodegeneration?
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Chronic exposure to glyphosate — the most widely used herbicide globally — may be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD),...
New Clues in CEO’s Killing; Time to Worry About Disease X? Ketamine Diversions Grow
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. New clues are emerging in the hunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare...
Addicted to Productivity, Doc? The Holidays Are a Time to Reflect
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Landry and Lewiss are emergency medicine physicians. As physicians, we are too familiar with the toll work and productivity take on...
Advancing Treatment Outcomes in Multiple Myeloma
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Treatment for multiple myeloma has evolved significantly, with long-term survival increasingly within reach for many patients. Achieving optimal outcomes requires not...
Physicians Offer Little Sympathy for Slain Insurance CEO
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Many physicians reacted with the opposite of sympathy to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this week, reflecting pent-up...
New Cancer Vaccines on the Horizon: Renewed Hope or Hype?
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Vaccines for treating and preventing cancer have long been considered a holy grail in oncology. But aside from a few notable...
Higher Risk for Herpes Zoster Complications With IBD
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TOPLINE: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) face a higher risk for complications of herpes zoster than those without IBD, with...
Empagliflozin May Slow Diabetic Retinopathy
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TOPLINE: Empagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, did not reduce the risk for incident nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy compared with dipeptidyl...
Meta-analysis Probes Rare Potential Vision Risk From GLP-1s
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TOPLINE: Patients treated with glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) appear to have a very low incidence of nonarteritic anterior...
LGBTQ+-Inclusive Language Missing in Acne Assessment
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TOPLINE: An analysis of acne-specific patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) identified LGBTQ+-noninclusive language in four of nine measures, with heteronormative terms used...
How PAs Are Meeting Mental Health Care Needs
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The United States is in the midst of a mental health provider crisis. According to the US Health Resources and Services...
Can Dendritic Cells Improve ERBB2 Breast Cancer Outcomes?
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TOPLINE: For patients with early-stage ERBB2 (formerly HER2)–positive breast cancer, injections of increasing doses of autologous conventional type 1 dendritic cells...