FDA Calls for New Boxed Warning on All CAR-T Products Most serious warning would alert patients, providers on potential risk for secondary malignancies Jan 23, 2024
Early Switch to Oral Antibiotics Safe in Uncomplicated, Gram-Negative Bacteremia? Don't base treatment decisions solely on observational data, experts say Jan 23, 2024
Adults Who Cite Walking Difficulty Face Higher Fracture Risk Australian study suggests walking ability can help identify candidates for more assessment Jan 23, 2024
The Minefields Ahead in Long COVID Treatment Development "For the people hurting and suffering, they need treatment yesterday," says long COVID expert Jan 23, 2024 video
Make the Diagnosis: A Young Woman With a White-ish Neck Rash: What’s Your Take? A 32-year-old woman visited her doctor concerned about a rash that developed on her neck and chest 3 months prior. Can you diagnose the patient? Jan 23, 2024
A Nitrogen Gas Execution Would Be Unduly Cruel It also may put others in the room at risk Jan 23, 2024
What to Know About Abortion Rulings, Bills, and Campaigns Across the U.S. Lawmakers in Wisconsin, Maine consider ballot measures Jan 23, 2024
New FDA Boxed Warning; College Shaken by Suicides; More Get Flu Shot Than COVID Vax Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Jan 23, 2024
Could Arthritis Enhance Male Fertility? Link seen in epidemiological study, but reasons remain a mystery Jan 22, 2024
On Anniversary of Roe Decision, Biden Tells Congress: 'Let Doctors Do Their Job' Administration promises EMTALA enforcement, better access to birth control Jan 22, 2024
FDA Warns Exosome Maker for Marketing Outside Its IND Agency also raises concern about a potentially contaminated product batch Jan 22, 2024
Gabapentinoid Use Continues to Climb Gabapentin still commonly prescribed off-label for chronic pain Jan 22, 2024
Troubled For-Profit Nursing Program Dodges Early Closure But regulator in Arizona has final word Jan 22, 2024
Ceftriaxone Prevents Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia After Brain Injury Single-dose administered prophylactically associated with less pneumonia, mortality Jan 22, 2024
Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease Likely Cost-Effective if Under $2 Million Lifetime reduction in acute pain episodes should offset high upfront costs of the therapy Jan 22, 2024
Alzheimer's Blood Test Shows High Diagnostic Accuracy Commercial ptau-217 assay reduced confirmatory testing by about 80% Jan 22, 2024
Big PFS Improvement in Highly Mutated CRC With Dual Immunotherapy Nivolumab/ipilimumab led to improvement in untreated MSI-H/dMMR disease versus chemo Jan 22, 2024
Afib Detected After Stroke: Link to Recurrent Events Questioned ICM-flagged Afib not tied to repeat stroke in an already fairly anticoagulated population Jan 22, 2024
The Healthcare Landscape Is Changing. Our Regulatory Practices Should Too. Closer collaboration between FDA and CMS is the need of the hour Jan 22, 2024
Neoadjuvant PD-1 Blockade Boosts pCR Rates in Early Esophageal Cancer But will the benefit extend to event-free and overall survival? Jan 22, 2024
Buprenorphine Less Risky for Most Birth Defects Than Methadone But researchers said any treatment for OUD in pregnancy is better than none Jan 22, 2024
Newly Unveiled Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis Can Improve Diagnoses The Phoenix Sepsis Score was validated using encounters in higher- and lower-resource settings Jan 22, 2024
COVID Vax During Pregnancy Safe for Infant Brain Development, Study Suggests Observational data out to 18 months await confirmation in longer-term follow-up Jan 22, 2024
Can We Please Stop Pushing the Paperwork Rock Uphill? Let's develop paperless systems that make our lives easier and allow us to focus on patient care Jan 22, 2024
For PACS Eyes, Simple Clinical Exam Enough to Predict Long-Term Glaucoma Risk OCT or other high-tech metrics not needed to assess progression of primary angle-closure suspect Jan 22, 2024
Alabama Plans to Carry Out First Nitrogen Gas Execution How will it work and what are the risks? Jan 22, 2024
How Should We Treat Long COVID? Long COVID expert explains the latest research on potential treatments Jan 22, 2024 video
Sitting and Early Death; Dana-Farber Retracts Multiple Papers; Winter Weather Deaths Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Jan 22, 2024
'Reads Like Attack Journalism': What We Heard This Week Quotable quotes heard by ֱ's reporters Jan 21, 2024
What Would a Second Trump Presidency Look Like for Healthcare? A recap of the former president's record on healthcare Jan 21, 2024
The Truth About What Health Information Exchanges Can and Cannot Do They have the potential to be an incredible tool, but improvements are needed Jan 21, 2024
New Standard for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma? Adding durvalumab and bevacizumab to transarterial chemoembolization almost doubles PFS Jan 21, 2024
What's Behind the Decrease in Breast Cancer Deaths? You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz Jan 20, 2024
HAIP Chemo Offers OS Advantage in Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma One in three trial patients still alive at 3 years after hepatic arterial infusion pump treatment Jan 20, 2024
Radioligand Gets Big Win in High-Grade GEP Neuroendocrine Tumors Lutetium dotatate reduces PFS risk by 72% in randomized trial Jan 20, 2024
Increase in Congenital Syphilis; Decrease in Breast Cancer Mortality Also in TTHealthWatch: long-term heart failure outcomes Jan 20, 2024 podcast
Fighting Back Against Acute Bacterial Meningitis The hope for a brighter future largely rests on better vaccines reaching more people Jan 20, 2024
Q&A: Talking Prior Authorization With Rep. Suzan DelBene The Washington congresswoman also discusses home dialysis, Medicare cuts Jan 19, 2024
Switch to Oral Antibiotics Noninferior in Low-Risk Staph Bloodstream Infections Identifying "low risk" infections is tricky, experts say Jan 19, 2024
