Treatment of Oligometastatic EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer
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EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are effective treatments for EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, even after undergoing systemic therapy,...
Higher Early-Onset CRC Mortality Seen in Minorities
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TOPLINE: Death rates for patients aged METHODOLOGY: US rates of EOCRC are increasing, with differences across racial and ethnic groups, but...
Nationwide Beef Recall; 23% of U.S. Adults Underinsured; Deaths From Tainted Booze
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A nationwide recall involving 160,000 pounds of ground beef was announced after...
How to Calm Rosacea-Related Facial Erythema, Flushing
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LAS VEGAS — When patients with rosacea consult Julie C. Harper, MD, about persistent facial erythema, she often recommends brimonidine 0.33%...
Canadian Scientists Keep Watchful Eye on H5N1 Human Case
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Now that Canada has confirmed its first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) linked to H5N1, virologists and infectious...
What Has Canada Learned About Cannabis Since Legalization?
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More than 6 years after the legalization of nonmedical cannabis, Canadian scientists are reporting a mix of observations. Legalization has improved...
As GLP-1 Use Surges, Clinicians Weigh Benefits and Risks
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Rates of overweight and obesity have more than doubled in the United States during the last three decades, according to a...
Residency to Reality: The Job Outlook for New Docs
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What does the employment market hold for new physician recruits? From alternative scheduling arrangements to improved work-life balance, the outlook for...
Anastrozole Increases Height in Children With CAH
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TOPLINE: Adjunct treatment with anastrozole in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) delays the rate of bone maturation and increases the...
Stand-Alone Adjuvant Immunotherapy for Early TNBC?
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The role of adjuvant immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains uncertain. Standard therapy for TNBC includes neoadjuvant pembrolizumab with chemotherapy...
Stages I-III Screen-Detected CRC Boosts Disease-Free Survival
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TOPLINE: Patients with stages I-III screen-detected colorectal cancer (CRC) have better disease-free survival rates than those with non-screen–detected CRC, an effect...
Transplant Centers Often Overlook Family Caregivers
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Family caregivers provide crucial support to patients before and after a life-saving organ, stem cell, or bone marrow transplant. In recognition...
Men Who Heavily Drink Carry Higher Risk for Late AMD
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TOPLINE: Moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a lower risk for progression to late age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in men. Geographic...
When Cancer Therapy Affects the Skin: A Guide for Clinicians
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Nearly every medication comes with side effects, and in cancer therapies, they can be severe. Clinicians must often weigh the benefits...
Anxiety and Vomiting in Kids Undergoing Sedation in the ED
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TOPLINE: Preprocedural anxiety levels among children undergoing procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) with ketamine in the emergency department are not associated...
Holly Bowles sixth to die of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos
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Beaumaris Football Club Australian teenagers Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were travelling together when they fell ill A second Australian teenager...
Oxidative Stress Marker May Signal Fracture Risk in T2D
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TOPLINE: Elevated levels of plasma F2-isoprostanes, a reliable marker of oxidative stress, are associated with an increased risk for fractures in...
AI Tool Identifies Undiagnosed Early-Stage MASLD
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SAN DIEGO — An artificial intelligence (AI)–driven algorithm may be able to accurately detect early-stage metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)...
Anti-TNF Therapy Lowers Gestational Diabetes Risk in IBD
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TOPLINE: Exposure to antitumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy during the first 140 days of pregnancy is associated with a significant decrease...
Creatine: The science behind the gym supplement with benefits for both brain and body
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Creatine supplements are commonly available in powder form Shutterstock/RHJPhtotos Creatine is one of the most widely studied performance-enhancing substances in the...
Chronic Pain Affects One in Four Americans, CDC Reports
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Chronic pain affected nearly one in four U.S. adults, new CDC survey data showed. In 2023, 24.3% of adults had chronic...
Lack of Clinical Benefit of Andexanet Flummoxes FDA Panel
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FDA advisors pushed for nuance in discussing whether andexanet alfa (Andexxa) should gain full approval, citing uncertainties about which dose and...
What’s the Status of the Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes?
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Biden administration officials have many regulations they’d like to finalize before the end of the president’s term, but it’s unclear whether...
Malaria Vaccine Delivered by Mosquito Bite Shows Safety, Efficacy
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Immunization with a second-generation genetically attenuated parasite was safe and provided strong protection from malaria infection in young adults, a small...
Common chemical in drinking water hasn’t been tested for safety
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Millions of US residents may be drinking water containing the potentially harmful compound Yiu Yu Hoi/Getty Images A common disinfectant in...
Clinicians React to Trump’s Appointees; Beyonce in the OR? Diagnosing Shiny Legs
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The following contains links to social media websites including X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. “Probably the biggest health threat to...
Trump Is Back: What This Could Mean for Health Policy
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Gostin, Radhakrishnan, and Friedman are experts in health law and policy. The first Trump administration was marked by mismanagement of the...
Use of Home-Based OCT for Neovascular AMD Could Lead to More Timely Treatment
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A retrospective review of home-based optical coherence tomography (OCT) monitoring for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) found that treatment should have...
Flooding May Be the Climate Health Hazard of Our Time, Report Suggests
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Floods are emerging as a major health hazard with inequitable global effects — both short and long term — as climate...
‘Suicide Capsule’ Creator Rejects Allegation That First User May Have Been Strangled
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GENEVA — The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” said he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was...
Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis Linked to Pesticide Exposure
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A study in Gastroenterology linked inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) risk with past exposure to environmental pollutants, mostly pesticides. In this interview,...
U.S. Towns Plunge Into Debates About Fluoride in Water
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For about 50 years, adding cavity-preventing fluoride to drinking water was a popular public health measure in Yorktown, a leafy town...
New Agent for Biliary Tract Cancer Approved
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved zanidatamab (Ziihera, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) as monotherapy for previously treated, unresectable or...
Vaping Linked to Higher Risk of Blurred Vision & Eye Pain
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TOPLINE: Adults who use electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes/vapes) had more than double the risk for developing uveitis than nonusers, with elevated risks...
Which Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Postop Radiotherapy?
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TOPLINE: The Profile for the Omission of Local Adjuvant Radiation (POLAR) biomarker, a 16-gene molecular signature, can help predict locoregional recurrence...
FDA Approves Zanidatamab for Biliary Tract Cancer
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The FDA on Wednesday granted accelerated approval to zanidatamab (Ziihera), a bispecific antibody, for pretreated HER2-positive biliary tract cancer. Approval stipulates...
Briton Simone White dies after suspected mass poisoning in Laos
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Squire Patton Boggs Simone White was holidaying in south-east Asia A British lawyer has died after a suspected methanol poisoning thought...
Diet’s Role in Parkinson’s Disease
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Interest is growing in the role of nutrition as means of slowing, or even preventing, neurodegeneration in patients with Parkinson’s disease...
World’s thinnest spaghetti won’t please gourmands but may heal wounds
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The pasta nanofibres Beatrice Britton/Adam Clancy Scientists have produced the world’s thinnest spaghetti strands, 200 times slimmer than a human hair....
Naked Doc Investigated; Urologist Gets Life in Prison; Man Charged in Doc’s Murder
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A newly released video shows Arkansas doctor David Diffine, MD, walking around his clinic nude and performing a sexual act in...
Matt Hancock says NHS was ‘hours’ from PPE running out in Covid
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The NHS in England came within “six or seven hours” of running out of gowns and other protective equipment during the...
Novel Therapy Reduced Liver Fat, Improved Fibrosis in MASH
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Patients with biopsy-confirmed metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and fibrosis who received a novel small molecule thyroid hormone receptor agonist achieved statistically...
Policy Experts Split on Dr. Oz Nomination to Lead CMS
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of cardiothoracic surgeon and former talk show host Mehmet Oz, MD, to serve as Centers for Medicare...
AMA in RFK Jr.’s Crosshairs; Cinnamon Bun Recall; FDA Probes PFAS in Seafood
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Deprescribe Low-Value Meds to Reduce Polypharmacy Harms
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — While polypharmacy is inevitable for patients with multiple chronic diseases, not all medications improve patient-oriented outcomes, members...
Canadian Survey Reveals Sexual Harassment in Medicine
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In a new Medscape survey, nearly 1 in 10 Canadian physicians said they’ve personally experienced sexual abuse, harassment, or misconduct at...
Shoulder Pain Pointers for Primary Care
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The causes of shoulder pain may be as common as a traumatic injury or as rare as a systemic inflammatory condition,...
US Alcohol-Related Deaths Double in Two Decades
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TOPLINE: US alcohol-related mortality rates increased from 10.7 to 21.6 per 100,000 between 1999 and 2020, with the largest rise of...
Calgary Supervised Consumption Site Closure at an Impasse
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Amid substantially rising opioid-related deaths and other harms in Canada, the city of Calgary is grappling with the potential closure of...
How to Stop Bone Loss After Denosumab? No Easy Answers
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Patients who discontinue treatment with the osteoporosis drug denosumab, despite transitioning to zoledronate, show significant losses in lumbar spine bone mineral...