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Cancer, infection risk higher in transplant patients than rejection
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- Pam Harrison
Patients should be differentiated into two groups: younger, nondiabetic patients who develop graft failure and older often diabetic patients less...
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Surrogate endpoints acceptable in AML trials, says FDA
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- Pam Harrison
FDA defends its use of surrogate endpoints in clinical trials, citing analysis of eight trials for new treatments for acute myeloid leukemia.
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ICIs for NSCLC: Patients with ILD show greater risk
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- Pam Harrison
Clinicians need to ask themselves if there are any alternative therapies that might work just as well if not better than ICI therapy for patients...
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Pediatric community-acquired pneumonia: 5 days of antibiotics better than 10 days
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- Pam Harrison
“These data are immediately applicable to frontline clinicians,” said Dr. Derek Williams of Vanderbilt University.
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U.S. cancer deaths continue to fall, especially lung cancer
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- Pam Harrison
There has been an overall decline of 32% in cancer deaths as of 2019.
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Neonatal sepsis: WHO-recommended Rx needs a major rethink
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- Pam Harrison
“The main take-home message from our data is that ampicillin-gentamicin doesn’t work for most of the Gram-...
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Frail COPD patients at high risk of disability and death
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- Pam Harrison
But frailty did not significantly predict mortality in women, while dyspnea did not significantly predict mortality in men.
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Low BMI, weight loss predict mortality risk in ILD
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- Pam Harrison
Patients who have severe interstitial lung disease who start to lose weight unintentionally may be experiencing...
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Appendicitis: Up-front antibiotics OK in select patients
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- Pam Harrison
If uncomplicated appendicitis is confirmed, three different guidelines now support the role of an antibiotics-first approach.
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Genomic profiling can improve PFS in metastatic breast cancer
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- Pam Harrison
Genomic testing for cancer is effective, experts say. Targeted therapy may be needed when genomic alterations are present.
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Black women most at risk for lymphedema after ALND
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- Pam Harrison
Axillary lymph node dissection is the main risk factor for lymphedema, but now a new study shows that 67% of patients needing the procedure are...
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Poor night’s sleep impairs glucose control the next morning
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- Pam Harrison
A poor night’s sleep and going to bed later than usual are both associated with impaired blood glucose response to high-fat, high-carbohydrate...
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HPV vaccines reduce cervical cancer rates in young females
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- Pam Harrison
HPV vaccination programs have been remarkably successful at reducing cervical cancer rates in young females provided they are vaccinated early...
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Big drop in U.S. cervical cancer rates, mortality in younger women
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- Pam Harrison
This analysis lines up with previous evidence from U.S. epidemiologic data.
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Rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps lowers QoL in COPD
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- Pam Harrison
In the COPD group, “severe” and “very severe” airflow obstruction was present in 56.5% of patients with RSsNP...