C. Diff Deaths More Likely Among Women, Whites, and Urbanites
(MedPage Today) -- ATLANTA -- Mortality rates from Clostridioides difficile-related infections have fallen steadily since 2016, but the condition continues ...
Shingles Vaccination Tied to Drops in Cardiovascular Events, Dementia, Death
(MedPage Today) -- ATLANTA -- Having shingles boosted the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) such as vascular dementia, ...
New Drug for Rare Neuroendocrine Tumors Shows Durable Activity
(MedPage Today) -- BERLIN -- Belzutifan (Welireg) induced durable responses in advanced pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma (PPGL) in a single-arm phase ...
How Many Young Adults Used Cannabis or Alcohol to Help Sleep?
(MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/quizzes/news-quiz/118005 ...
‘Blow Your Mind’ Survival Improvement in Advanced, Mutated NSCLC
(MedPage Today) -- BERLIN -- Almost half of patients with advanced ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have lived 7 ...
AI and Healthcare; New Drug for Lupus
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for ...
First Survival Win for CDK4/6 Inhibitors in High-Risk Early-Breast Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- BERLIN -- For the first time in a phase III trial, adjuvant treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor ...
Durvalumab Plus FLOT Ups Survival in Early Upper-GI Cancer
Overall survival outcomes in MATTERHORN trial support perioperative durvalumab plus chemotherapy as standard of care. Medscape Medical News Source link ...
Add-On Multicancer Early Detection Test Promising Across Various Cancer Types
(MedPage Today) -- BERLIN -- Adding a test that predicts cancer signal origin to single standard of care (SoC) screening ...
There’s No Red Versus Blue in the Hospital
(MedPage Today) -- As I'm about to get out of my car and head into the hospital for my shift, ...
Abemaciclib Ups Overall Survival in High-Risk Breast Cancer
Adding the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib to endocrine therapy significantly improves overall survival in node-positive, high-risk early breast cancer, in the ...
Walking Is Good for You. Walking Backward Can Add to the Benefits
(MedPage Today) -- Here's a simple way to switch up your walking routine, according to experts: try going backward. Taking ...
‘An adult weekender at Butlin’s saved my life’
Charlotte Monjaria's weekend away with friends led to the discovery of a cancerous tumour. Source link : https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c1e37n8y678o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss Author : ...
Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers
A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer could help speed up diagnosis according to a new study.Results ...
Newport woman’s rare kidney cancer found after Butlin’s injury
Charlotte Morjario had no idea how her life was about to change when she went on a girls' holiday with ...
Gene Therapy Shows Lasting Benefit for Children With Rare Disorder
(MedPage Today) -- For children born with severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA-SCID), an investigational gene therapy ...
Government Shutdown, Funding Cuts Threaten U.S. Disaster Preparedness, Experts Say
(MedPage Today) -- The continuing federal government shutdown and cuts to the CDC mean that the U.S. may not be ...
Does the AMA Have a Seat at Trump’s Table?
(MedPage Today) -- Bobby Mukkamala, MD, president of the American Medical Association (AMA), said he's looking forward to "growing our ...
Another ‘Practice-Changing’ Study in High-Risk Bladder Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- BERLIN -- Adding durvalumab (Imfinzi) to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) induction and maintenance therapy significantly improved disease-free survival ...
Immunotherapy Gets ‘Meaningful’ Survival Win in Operable Gastric Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- BERLIN -- In a global phase III trial, the addition of durvalumab (Imfinzi) to standard chemotherapy given ...
