Neuroprotective Agent Prevents Significant Vision Loss in Geographic Atrophy Consistent vision effect with complement C1q inhibitor, despite no effect on lesion size Nov 07, 2023
CMS Proposes Rule to Limit Medicare Advantage Plan Sales Commissions No more golf parties or free trips to brokers who "steer" beneficiaries to higher-paying plans Nov 07, 2023
Lung Cancer Survival High at 20 Years With Screen-Detected Tumors After two decades, lung cancer-specific survival remained at 81% in I-ELCAP program Nov 07, 2023
Why I 'Anti-Trust' Google Search on Healthcare The search results may be leading consumers to unproven treatments Nov 07, 2023
Surgeries Without Anesthesia; CDC Expands Traveler Testing; Human Skull for Sale Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Nov 07, 2023
Critics Say CDC Advisors' Infection Control Guidance Isn't Strong Enough Draft guidelines from HICPAC criticized after most recent meeting Nov 06, 2023
Novel Aldosterone Synthase Inhibitor Cuts Albuminuria in Phase II Trial Trial tested BI 690517 with and without empagliflozin Nov 06, 2023
Heart Injuries Suggest Reconsideration of Holding BP Meds for Surgery Pause on ACE inhibitors, ARBs yields more acute hypertension with no prevention of hypotension Nov 06, 2023
Blood Test Detects MS Disability Worsening a Year Before It Occurs Neurofilament light is elevated before worsening, both with and without relapses Nov 06, 2023
Former Nurse Sees Raft of New Charges in Murder Investigation Initially charged with killing two patients, she admits to attempting to kill 19 more Nov 06, 2023
How Dangerous Is Caffeine for People With Severe Arrhythmias? Parents blame daughter's death on highly caffeinated beverage Nov 06, 2023
Mixed Results for Tiragolumab/Atezolizumab Combo in PD-L1+ Recurrent Cervical Cancer Overall response beats historical benchmark, but misses significance target Nov 06, 2023
Foster Care Admission Surged When Abortion Access Fell, Study Shows 20 years of data show increases in foster care admissions in TRAP law states Nov 06, 2023
VEGF-Targeted Antibody Conjugate Gets a Win in Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Some degree of improvement in disease status in 70% of patients treated with tarcocimab Nov 06, 2023
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Help With Weight Loss for HIV Patients Panel discusses pros and cons of prescribing these medications in this group Nov 06, 2023 video
Kidney Transplant Rates Stubbornly Resist Systems Intervention in Canada Multi-pronged approach to boost living and deceased donor transplant fails in randomized trial Nov 06, 2023
Should the Way We Describe MS Progression Change? Timothy Coetzee, PhD, discusses a revealing global survey Nov 06, 2023
Gene Therapy Controls Diabetic Eye Disease for at Least a Year All but one patient with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy had stable disease or improvement Nov 06, 2023
Why Aren't We Treating Health Disparities Like the Crises They Are? Lessons from the COVID pandemic on crisis response Nov 06, 2023
What's on the Horizon for Myasthenia Gravis Cell-based therapies, broader B-cell targeting, and immune tolerance are all in the works Nov 06, 2023
Transitioning Patients With Atopic Dermatitis From Topical to Systemic Therapy Peter Lio, MD, discusses how he approaches that decision-making discussion Nov 06, 2023 video
Want Your Patients to Be More Independent? The Answer Is Simple: More Simplicity Let's make it easier for patients to schedule flu shots and do other routine tasks Nov 06, 2023
Fruit Puree Probe Expands; COVID Vaccine Injury Lawsuit; Tuskegee Documents Public Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Nov 06, 2023
Sparsentan Bests Irbesartan for Preserving Kidney Function in IgA Nephropathy Proteinuria reduction and slower eGFR decline in 2-year PROTECT trial Nov 05, 2023
RAF/MEK and FAK Inhibitor Combo Effective in Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Impressive overall response rate with avutometinib-defactinib in RAMP 201 trial Nov 05, 2023
Maintenance Selinexor May Boost PFS in TP53 Wild-Type Advanced Endometrial Cancer Particularly strong PFS signal seen in patients that were mismatch repair proficient Nov 05, 2023
Eye Drops Make Bid for Role in Diabetic Macular Edema Improved visual acuity, retinal thickness at 6 and 12 weeks, but treatment burden questioned Nov 05, 2023
'We Feel Like We're Drowning': What We Heard This Week Quotable quotes heard by ֱ's reporters Nov 05, 2023
Medical School on Cherokee Reservation Will Soon Send Doctors to Tribal, Rural Areas "It really comforts patients to know that someone like them is taking care of them" Nov 05, 2023
'Money' Should Not Be a Bad Word in Medical Education Physician understanding of the business of healthcare can better the system Nov 05, 2023
Botulinum Toxin Injection May Be an Option for Excess Saliva in Patients With ALS Small VA-based study saw promising short-term results with no adverse events Nov 05, 2023
ERA and SGLT2 Inhibitor Combo Cuts Albuminuria in Chronic Kidney Disease But ZENITH-CKD trial had to pivot to only using low-dose zibotentan due to fluid retention Nov 05, 2023
Efgartigimod Offers Hope in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Subcutaneous formulation lowers relapse risk in debilitating autoimmune disorder Nov 05, 2023
Heat and Cardiovascular Death; Time-Restricted Eating or Caloric Restriction in T2D Also in TTHealthWatch: managing nasal airway obstruction Nov 04, 2023 podcast
For Health AI to Fulfill Its Potential, Regulation Is Paramount There's little value in a tool that can't be trusted Nov 04, 2023
Medicine Has Become the McDonald's of Healthcare The focus shouldn't be on quantity over quality Nov 04, 2023
Regulation Gap Persists in OTC Eye Care Products Poor oversight, sketchy product information endanger public health, experts say Nov 04, 2023
Rozanolixizumab Maintains Efficacy Among Generalized Myasthenia Gravis Subgroups Benefits maintained after multiple treatment cycles Nov 03, 2023
Adding Atezolizumab Improves Survival in Advanced Cervical Cancer Trial confirms the role of first-line checkpoint inhibition in metastatic or recurrent disease Nov 03, 2023
This Antibiotic May Reduce C. Diff Risk in Pneumonia Patients Doxycycline associated with reduced infection, re-infection rates versus azithromycin Nov 03, 2023
