Four Drugs Top Three for Upfront Treatment of Multiple Myeloma Adding anti-CD38 antibodies boosts response and PFS, but timing, sequencing, cost questioned Dec 13, 2023
Nurse Wins $41M Retaliation Suit; Patients Worry About AI Use; Who Should Get CPR? Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Dec 13, 2023
White House Looks to States for Help Reining in Gun Violence "No single city, state, or federal agency has a monopoly on good ideas," says official Dec 13, 2023
Five Companies Sign Agreement to Participate in National Health Data-Sharing Network Live transactions on the new network have already begun Dec 12, 2023
Companies Market Stem Cell Treatments to Long COVID Patients Prices are high but evidence is scant that therapies work, researchers say Dec 12, 2023
7 Secrets to Wealth Building You Won't Learn in Medical School Advice that all doctors should know Dec 12, 2023
Twins and Dementia; CRISPR and Alzheimer's; BTK Inhibitor Fails in MS Trials News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Dec 12, 2023
High-Altitude Mountain Trips Can Be Tolerated Despite Pulmonary Hypertension Effects of high elevation tested in an experiment in the Swiss Alps Dec 12, 2023
The 'Bottom Line' Should Not Eclipse the Doctor-Patient Relationship It's time to reassess the direction in which medicine is heading Dec 12, 2023
Why Is VEXAS Syndrome Often Fatal? Here's an Answer New study suggests immunodeficiency is a previously unrecognized feature Dec 12, 2023
PA Reprimanded for Secretly Pushing Ivermectin Matthew Trom, PA, reportedly prescribed the drug without documentation Dec 12, 2023
One in Five BRCA-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Able to Conceive Disease-free survival comparable between patients who did and did not become pregnant Dec 12, 2023
The FDA's Inequitable Conduct Problem Study finds that about half of all inequitable conduct cases were for FDA-regulated products Dec 12, 2023 video
New Diabetes Care Standards; Near 40% Ditch T2D Meds; Zepbound Hits Shelves News and commentary from the endocrinology world Dec 12, 2023
Statins and CKD; Farxiga's Limited Symptom Improvement; Stop Wasted TNKase Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Dec 12, 2023
Menin Inhibitor Yields 63% ORR in Heavily Pretreated Acute Leukemia Investigational drug revumenib now under review at FDA for KMT2A-rearranged disease Dec 12, 2023
Life Expectancy Finally Increased: Why That's Not Really a Cause for Celebration The virus is still winning Dec 12, 2023
How Do You Select Systemic Therapy for Your Psoriasis Patients? Richard Warren explains the factors he considers and what his "go-to" treatment is Dec 12, 2023 video
Novel Monoclonal Antibody Reduces Bleeds in Hemophilia A and B Marstacimab reduced the annualized bleeding rate versus on-demand, prophylactic treatments Dec 12, 2023
USPSTF Draft Calls for Lifestyle Shift -- Not Meds -- for Kids With Obesity Behavioral interventions should be main approach; insufficient data to back pharmacologic therapy Dec 12, 2023
Ruxolitinib Combinations Reduce Spleen Volume in Myelofibrosis Combos with navitoclax or pelabresib led to more patients achieving reductions Dec 12, 2023
KEYNOTE-A18 Data Are 'Practice-Changing' for Cervical Cancer Domenica Lorusso details the importance of modern radiotherapy in this regimen Dec 12, 2023
Metformin for Diabetes in Pregnancy: Maybe Not, Trial Says New trial complicates findings of previous studies Dec 12, 2023
Gunman's Brain Tissue Tested; Conversion Therapy Ban Upheld; Pedestrian Deaths Rise Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Dec 12, 2023
Axatilimab Shows Efficacy in Recurrent/Refractory GVHD Highest overall response rate and least toxicity seen with lowest dose Dec 11, 2023
MRD Tied to Allo-Transplant Benefit in NPM1-Mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia No advantage for MRD-negative patients in first remission after induction, regardless of FLT3 ITD Dec 11, 2023
Texas Emergency Medicine Residency Program Won't Shut Down A petition with more than 2,000 signatures prompted the county medical board to act Dec 11, 2023
Recurrence Rate of Colorectal Adenomas Reduced With Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection However, more adverse events occurred compared with endoscopic mucosal resection Dec 11, 2023
Very Early ART Can Result in Sustained HIV Suppression in Neonates Newborns should be diagnosed "super early" and receive ART in maternity ward, experts say Dec 11, 2023
A Closer Look at the Approval of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease This landmark event brings up broader considerations and implications for other diseases Dec 11, 2023
Teens' High BMI Tied to Early Chronic Kidney Disease "Enormous" risk increase seen in the highest BMI categories Dec 11, 2023
Prion Disease Rising in the U.S. Incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease increased, especially among women Dec 11, 2023
Giving Oropharyngeal Surfactant at Birth Is No Help to Preemies Increased rates of pneumothorax emerged among newborns treated prophylactically Dec 11, 2023
How Do We Hack the Problem of Health Information Hacking? Going back to using paper and the U.S. mail seems impractical Dec 11, 2023
In-Office Thermal Technology Superior for Dry Eye Treatment TearCare showed improved tear break-up time and meibomian gland secretion Dec 11, 2023
Would You Take Out a $200k Loan With No Real Returns for a Decade? The federal government must address medical school affordability Dec 11, 2023
Nurses, Resident Slashed; Deadly Tick Disease Outbreak; COVID Vax After Infection Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Dec 11, 2023
ASCT Tops CAR T-Cell Therapy for Relapsed LBCL in Complete Remission Better 2-year PFS, OS, but not applicable to primary refractory disease Dec 10, 2023
Frontline Venetoclax-Ibrutinib for CLL Boosts Survival in Fit Patients Time-limited approach based on MRD response outperforms FCR, but U.S. applicability unclear Dec 10, 2023
Emicizumab Safe, Effective, in Infants With Hemophilia A More than half of children in study had no treated bleeds at follow-up of more than 100 weeks Dec 10, 2023
