Nintedanib Slows Decline in RA-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease Similar results to original larger trial seen in post-hoc analysis Jun 04, 2021
Guns for Vaccinations; IU Health Joins the Mandate Club; NFL Ends 'Race-Norming' A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Jun 03, 2021
COVID Long Haulers Illuminate Overlooked Medical Condition More evidence for POTS after SARS-CoV-2 infection is helping to raise awareness Jun 01, 2021
Breast Cancer Screening During COVID Reveals Inequities Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, discusses new findings and his takeaway May 25, 2021 video
CPAP May Cut Cardiac Events in Some At-Risk Apnea Patients Greater pulse rate response tied to greater calculated treatment benefit of CPAP May 20, 2021
Vaping Alone May Boost Lung Troubles Study finds wheeze, shortness of breath with e-cigs even after controlling for tobacco or pot use May 18, 2021
Dupixent Improves Lung Function in Kids With Uncontrolled Asthma VOYAGE phase III trial also showed exacerbation reductions May 18, 2021
COVID Patient 'Lottery' Ensured Scarce Drugs Divided Equitably System prioritized, deprioritized certain patient groups May 17, 2021
Fauci: Vaccines Showing Vigor Against COVID Variants Real-world effectiveness "easily as good, if not better" than trials May 17, 2021
Review ID's Racism During Care of Black Doctor Who Died of COVID "Lack of empathy, compassion, and awareness of implicit racial bias," external review concludes May 14, 2021
Probiotics Protect Overweight, Older Patients From Coughs and Wheeze Trial affirms "gut-lung" link but with important caveats May 14, 2021
Indian Variant a Global Risk; Good News on U.S. Cases; Baylor Expert Gets Threats A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine May 11, 2021
Asthma Med Adherence: Do High Insurance Deductibles Make a Difference? Study findings may surprise you May 10, 2021
Cannabis Vaping Skyrockets in High School Students COVID-19's effect still to be determined May 06, 2021
Op-Ed: Is FDA's Cigarette Ban Just Smoke and Menthols? Actually implementing a ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars could take years May 03, 2021
New Anti-PD1 Drugs Boost Survival in Treated Lung Cancer Questions about generalizability of results with China-developed therapies Apr 14, 2021
CDC Issues Health Advisory on J&J Shot; Pfizer Ramps Up; STDs at All-Time High A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Apr 14, 2021
Inhaled Steroid for Early COVID-19 Passes Another Test New analysis demonstrates speedier recovery for patients treated at home Apr 12, 2021
AHRQ: Studies Fail to Show Long-Term Benefit for CPAP Sleep apnea specialists dumbfounded at critique of "gold standard" treatment Apr 09, 2021
Redfield: COVID-19 Was in Wuhan in September or October 2019 Former CDC director also tells CNN that the virus likely escaped from a lab Mar 29, 2021
What to Make of That Danish Reinfection Study? Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, discusses the findings and their takeaway Mar 25, 2021 video
'COVID-to-COVID' Double Lung Transplant Performed Northwestern calls February procedure a success, opens door to more Mar 19, 2021
COVID-19 Treatments: What's In, What's Out A look at which treatments are effective -- and which aren't Mar 17, 2021
Studies Cast More Light on 'Long COVID' Prevalence, Presentation High rates of debilitating symptoms lasting months Mar 01, 2021
And the Magic Number for Daily Fruit, Vegetable Intake Is... No benefit to peas, corn, potatoes observed in cohort studies Mar 01, 2021
Lung Hemorrhage in Lupus: Which Patients Die? Risk factors include older age, longer disease duration, infection, and certain treatments Feb 20, 2021
Neoadjuvant Dual ICI Leads to Clinical Benefit in Operable NSCLC More than one-third of patients achieved major pathologic response with nivolumab-ipilimumab. Feb 18, 2021
Telemedicine in ICU Saves Lives, Study Finds Tele-intensivist care linked to 18% lower mortality over a decade Feb 03, 2021
Dustin Diamond's Small Cell Lung Cancer "Saved by the Bell" actor diagnosed after exhaustive testing Feb 02, 2021
KRAS Inhibitor Continues to Impress in NSCLC Sotorasib yielded deep and durable responses in over one-third of patients Feb 01, 2021
Nab-Paclitaxel as Possible Option for Relapsed NSCLC Noninferior to docetaxel for OS, though impact on clinical practice questioned Feb 01, 2021
Should COVID-Strained Centers Hit Pause on Lung Cancer Screening? A debate on what stopping scans would do to health systems, patients Feb 01, 2021
What Does Survival Look Like After ECMO for COVID-19? Small registry highlights need to analyze survivors' longitudinal functional status Jan 31, 2021
Will Recovering COVID-19 Patients Soon Be Walking Around on ECMO? This year's winner of the STS "Shark Tank" session Jan 30, 2021
Montana Oncologist Fired for Misdiagnosing, Overtreating Patients But some rally around him Jan 26, 2021
Op-Ed: COVID, Capital Punishment, and Pentobarbital Unquestionably cruel without lung infection, and even more egregious now Jan 11, 2021
Acute Brain Dysfunction Prolonged in COVID-19 ICU Patients 'COVID in the ICU is like a delirium factory' Jan 11, 2021
Lungs Clear but Still Not Well Post-COVID Months after diagnosis, fatigue is common but lung fibrosis is not Jan 08, 2021
