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WHO: Smoking cessation reduces risk of type 2 diabetes up to 40%
Key misconceptions among smokers with type 2 diabetes that can prevent cessation include concerns about post-cessation weight gain, the influence...
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Newly approved myasthenia gravis drug shows sustained benefits in early responders
“This self-administered medication allows patients to be more independent and can even travel since it is not dependent on an infusion center.”
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Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy tied to compromised executive function
Chemotherapy-related mobility declines in CIPN survivors are likely due to both neuromuscular and executive dysfunction.
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First new treatment in 30 years for rare disease is effective, tolerable, convenient
A new subcutaneous injectable showed efficacy and tolerability in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy safe, effective at 4 years
“What’s really striking, and in my mind the most impressive, is that when you follow these patients out 3 or 4 years ... you see there is this...
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PD-1 inhibitor improves outcomes in NHL subtype
With toripalimab and radiotherapy, progression-free survival at 2 years is high for extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma in those who respond poorly to...
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Ocular MALT lymphoma: Radiation reduces relapse
Mortality rates from early-stage ocular MALT lymphoma are low, with relapse rates lowered by radiation therapy.
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Nonsurgical option for more large thyroid nodule patients?
The implication is that nonsurgical options such as radiofrequency ablation may be appropriate for more patients than realized.
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Thyroid cancer increase observed in transgender female veterans
“I would characterize the trends in our data as being potentially suggestive or hypothesis generating – not conclusive.”
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Hold blood thinners during thyroid nodule biopsy?
“While we can never assume that [the events occurred] because the blood-thinner therapy was held, the timing within 48 hours is certainly very...
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Triple therapy boosts anaplastic thyroid cancer survival
"The very long median overall survival in the study's neoadjuvant group is quite remarkable for a group of patients who used to have a very poor...
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What potential does AI offer for endocrinology?
“A typical indication is fracture detection, not in terms of replacing expert radiologists or orthopedists but rather in terms of supporting those...
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Dispelling clinicians’ misconceptions about sickle cell disease
Among clinicians and their patients, widespread myths about sickle cell disease can stand in the way of adequate treatment.
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Pediatrician with SCD gives her young patients hope
A Nigerian-American hematologist draws on her experience living with sickle cell disease to encourage child patients and advise colleagues.
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Adhering to endocrine therapy is hard. What can be done?
Given the array of potential obstacles to endocrine therapy adherence, improving long-term use may be equally complex.