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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...
Lung Cancer Drug Osimertinib Tied to Cardiac Events, Even in Low-Risk Patients
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The non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) drug osimertinib (Tagrisso) was associated with an increased risk of therapy-related cardiovascular (CV) events compared...
MD Reacts to Anesthesia Policy; Debunking Pedialyte Misinfo; Passion vs Practicality
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The following contains links to social media websites including X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. “Babe, wake up, your surgery isn’t...
Trump Nearly Backed 16-Week Federal Abortion Ban
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Donald Trump was on the verge of backing a 16-week federal abortion ban earlier this year when aides staged an intervention....
MedPAC Members Supportive of Upping Medicare Pay Rates Close to the Inflation Rate
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Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) seemed favorable Thursday to a proposed recommendation to Congress that Medicare should pay...
Skip Surgery for DCIS in Favor of Active Monitoring?
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SAN ANTONIO — Active monitoring for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) did not lead to a higher rate of ipsilateral...
Risk-Reducing Surgery May Benefit BRCA Carriers With Early-Onset Breast Cancer
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SAN ANTONIO — Carriers of germline BRCA mutations diagnosed with breast cancer by age 40 who underwent risk-reducing surgeries had lower...
Jamie Foxx’s Stroke: Here’s What to Know
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Actor, comedian, and singer Jamie Foxx revealed that his mystery ailment last year was a brain bleed and stroke. In his...
New Investigation Casts Doubt on Landmark Ticagrelor Trial
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New questions about the landmark trial that launched the antiplatelet drug ticagrelor worldwide are being raised after an investigation uncovered more...
The 7 Biggest Financial Enemies of Doctors
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Success in personal finance and reaching financial freedom is not complicated. But that does not mean it is necessarily easy —...
Doc Confesses to Killing Wife, Police Say; Nurse Reprimanded for Cursing at Toddler
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Orlando-area physician Thomas Wentzell, MD, was arrested and confessed to killing his wife, according to local police. (WFTV9) Twenty lawsuits were...
Pulled Myeloma Drug Improves Survival in Trial
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SAN DIEGO — A significant overall survival (OS) benefit with belantamab mafodotin (belantamab; Blenrep) in a phase III trial of relapsed...
FDA Issues Safety Alert on Liver Disease Drug
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Postmarketing data on obeticholic acid (Ocaliva) identified a risk for serious liver injury in primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) patients without cirrhosis,...
Subcutaneous Cancer Immunotherapies Provide New Options for Physicians and Patients
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One of the most meaningful shifts in the cancer treatment landscape has been the move toward therapies that not only fight...
HER2 Low and Ultralow Designations Open Door to Expansion of ADCs in Breast Cancer
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The HER2-low and HER2-ultralow breast cancer subtype designations have led to a changed landscape in HER2-directed therapies, as well as a...
Providers, You Are the Missing Piece: Your Patients With OUD Need You
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Califf is FDA commissioner. Sokolowska is an FDA deputy center director specializing in substance use and behavioral health. As of 2023,...
Are Schools Shifting From Drug Prevention to Mental Health?
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TOPLINE: From 2008 to 2020, US schools reported significant increases in emotional/mental health education (from 83.8% to 89.8%) and suicide prevention...
More CEOs Targeted in Wanted Posters; Ultraprocessed Food Lawsuit; OD Deaths Fall
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. “Wanted” posters of healthcare CEOs were put up in New York City...
First final compensation in blood scandal to be paid in days
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The government has said the first victims of the infected blood scandal will receive final compensation payments this week. Ten people...
Should Hospitals Be Paid the Same as Doctors’ Offices for the Same Service?
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The idea of requiring site-neutral payments in Medicare — in which providers would be reimbursed at the same rate for performing...
Mystery Disease in Congo May Be Malaria but More Testing Needed, Authorities Say
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The mystery flu-like illness that killed dozens of people in southwest Congo in recent weeks might be malaria, according to results...
Could Covering GLP-1s Pay Off?
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The question may seem simple: Could paying for weight loss medications — especially the pricey glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s),...
General Practitioners and Specialists: What’s a Fair Price?
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During the first congress of the Belgian College of General Practitioners, held on November 15 and 16 in Namur, Belgium, a...
Whistleblower Doc Sues Hospital, Claims Retaliation
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Cardiologist Daniel West, MD, had practiced at Trinity Health Muskegon Hospital, Muskegon, Mich., since he finished medical school. His mother worked...
Diabetes Drugs and Eye Disease: These Protect, These Don’t
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TOPLINE: Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) and fenofibrates are associated with a reduced risk for diabetic macular edema (DME)...
Olaparib Protects Patients From High-Risk Cancer Recurrences
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SAN ANTONIO — Nearly 10 years along patients with high-risk BRCA-positive breast cancers who had been treated with the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase...
Hospitals hit by ‘tidal wave’ of winter viruses
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Hospitals in England are being hit by a “tidal wave” of flu and other winter viruses, NHS bosses say. Data released...
Medication Underuse Headache Demands Attention
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Decreasing the number ofmigraine attacks and resolving each attack quickly when it occurs are more important than ever, according to an...
Bowel-cancer rates rising among younger people
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Rates of bowel cancer are rising among younger adults, with no clear reason why, experts are warning. Although the disease still...
Surgery Boosts Survival in Older Breast Cancer Patients
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SAN ANTONIO — A comprehensive patient-level meta-analysis of three randomized trials demonstrated that compared with surgery deferral, immediate breast surgery significantly...
Few Focal Epilepsy Cases Controlled by Initial ASM Treatment
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Los Angeles — Only about 27% of patients newly diagnosed with focal epilepsy are seizure-free on initial anti-seizure medications (ASMs), new...
The PA Boom: More PAs, More Options
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The medical community welcomed a record number of new physician associates (PAs) into the provider ranks in 2023 — 11,762 PA...
Do Risk-Reducing Surgeries Benefit Young BRCA Carriers?
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Patients with BRCA-mutations and a history of early-onset breast cancer benefited from risk-reducing surgeries, according to new data presented at the San...
New Hope for Antimicrobial Peptides?
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The story of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), particularly in tackling antibiotic resistance, has been one of false dawns and unfulfilled promises. But...
Woman says struck-off sex GP tried to choke her
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SWNS Thomas Plimmer was struck off after having sex with multiple women at his GP surgery Warning: This article contains text...