Adding Isatuximab to Standard Backbone Prolongs PFS in Myeloma Joseph Mikhael, MD, leads a roundtable discussion on two positive phase III trials from ASCO Jun 14, 2024 video
FDA Took Months to React to Complaint About Abbott's Formula Factory, Audit Finds Several infants were hospitalized, and two died Jun 14, 2024
Doc Paralyzed After COVID; Legionella at Medicare HQ; Mystery Grand Canyon Illness Health news and commentary gathered by staff Jun 14, 2024
Osimertinib Plus SABR Appears Safe, Effective for Advanced EGFR-Mutant NSCLC The addition of SABR appears to provide PFS, OS benefit when considered against historical data Jun 14, 2024 video
Early Menopause Tied to Higher Risk of Respiratory Mortality Greatest risk observed for women with bilateral oophorectomy Jun 13, 2024
CDC Warns of Risks for ADHD Patients After Disruption of Online Adderall Prescriber Agency advises users of telehealth platform Done Global to find a new provider Jun 13, 2024
Liberal Blood Transfusion After Traumatic Brain Injury May Hold Benefit Trial didn't meet primary outcome, but functional independence scores were better Jun 13, 2024
Increase $$ for Physicians, Institute Site-Neutral Payment, MedPAC Report Suggests Inadequate payments could force some docs to stop accepting Medicare patients, commission warns Jun 13, 2024
Mom Allergic to Breastfeeding? Rare but It Happens. Only a handful of case reports have shown up in the literature Jun 13, 2024
Symptoms May Remain the Best Clue for Concussion Evaluation Cognitive evaluation is objective but not very accurate for diagnosis in sports, study finds Jun 13, 2024
Type 1 Diabetes in Older People Has Nearly Tripled Globally Since the '90s But the increase marks good news for survival, study suggests Jun 13, 2024
Upping Immunotherapy Activity; A Win for Lung Screening; Looming Drug Price Break? News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jun 13, 2024
AI System Beats Radiologists in Detecting Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer AI detected 6.8% more clinically significant cancers, 20% fewer indolent cancers Jun 13, 2024
Health Groups, Others React to SCOTUS Decision on Mifepristone But the battle over abortion is far from over, they say Jun 13, 2024
Tanning Salons Are Overdue for a Regulatory Burn In the meantime, don't forget to educate patients on the risks Jun 13, 2024
Stolen Corpse Arrest; Gender Care Leak Indictment; NFL Doc Sues for Discrimination A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Jun 13, 2024
Diet Change Revealed Deadly Diagnosis: Medical Mystery Solved! Can you guess what caused this patient's salt cravings? Jun 13, 2024
Prior COVID Infection May Protect Against Some Common Colds Researcher suggests finding could be key to vaccines that protect against multiple viruses Jun 13, 2024
Is 'Difficult-to-Treat' RA a Lost Cause? The name says it all, but progress appears to be coming Jun 13, 2024
98-Year-Old Man Believed to Be the Oldest American Organ Donor Ever Increasingly, older adults can donate organs upon their death, according to one expert Jun 13, 2024
Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Pill In unanimous decision, justices rule plaintiffs can't sue because they haven't been harmed Jun 13, 2024
Second Late-Stage Trial Shows Efficacy of Dupilumab for COPD NOTUS confirms findings of BOREAS in treating patients with type 2 inflammation Jun 13, 2024 video
CDC Warns About Chocolate Brand; Raw Garlic and Acne; Odd Appeal of Cow Pedicures Health news and commentary gathered by staff Jun 13, 2024
For Your Patients: Screening and Diagnosis of High Cholesterol What to know about when and how to get your cholesterol checked Jun 13, 2024
The Shifting Epidemiology of Hypercholesterolemia Prevalence, global trends, and population-attributable risk Jun 13, 2024
Case Study: Sudden Blurred Vision in a Young Woman Here's how the alarming visual symptoms eventually led to the correct diagnosis Jun 13, 2024
Preoxygenation With Noninvasive Ventilation Led to Less Hypoxemia During Intubation Fewer critically ill adults had hypoxemia compared with preoxygenation with an oxygen mask Jun 13, 2024
AMA's House of Delegates Says Yes to Drug Decriminalization "We need to move to something different ... something that actually works," one member said Jun 12, 2024
Postpartum Readmissions Up With High Blood Pressures Lingering From Pregnancy Concerns about BP thresholds for antihypertensive medication initiation Jun 12, 2024
New Clues to Origin of T-Cell Lymphoma After CAR-T Therapy Co-mutations, viral link, potential common susceptibility emerge from two studies Jun 12, 2024
AMA Recommends USMLE Step 3 Transition to Pass/Fail Members also tussled over whether to leverage unmatched physician graduates to fight shortages Jun 12, 2024
Brigatinib Makes Its Case for ALK-Positive ALCL in Small Study Second-gen ALK inhibitor induces high response rate, associated with impressive survival Jun 12, 2024
Hospital Stops PAs From Performing Invasive Procedures Move follows a pause of its open heart surgery program after immediate jeopardy citation Jun 12, 2024
Amino Acid Infusion Before Cardiac Surgery Reduced Acute Kidney Injury The amino acid mixture reduced stage 3 AKI by 44% compared with placebo Jun 12, 2024
Senators Blast Health and Law Enforcement Officials Over Illegal E-Cig Use in Teens The two best-selling disposable vapes alone generated more than $500 million in sales last year Jun 12, 2024
Pediatric-Onset Multiple Sclerosis Young MS patients are at risk of irreversible disability accrual Jun 12, 2024
Nanoliposomal Irinotecan Fails to Boost Survival in Treated Advanced Biliary Cancer No difference in PFS, median OS favored control group Jun 12, 2024
CAR-T Treatment Continues to Astonish in Rheumatologic Diseases Numbers of patients, length of follow-up keep growing with no visible downside (yet) Jun 12, 2024
Antidepressant Discontinuation; Gun Suicide Prevention; REM Disorder Breakthrough News and commentary from the psychiatry world Jun 12, 2024
