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Cancer, infection risk higher in transplant patients than rejection

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: February 1, 2022

Patients should be differentiated into two groups: younger, nondiabetic patients who develop graft failure and older often diabetic patients less l...

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Surrogate endpoints acceptable in AML trials, says FDA

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: February 1, 2022

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

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: January 31, 2022

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

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: January 19, 2022

“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

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: January 13, 2022

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

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: January 10, 2022

“The main take-home message from our data is that ampicillin-gentamicin doesn’t work for most of the Gram-negativ...

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Frail COPD patients at high risk of disability and death

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: January 5, 2022

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

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: January 4, 2022

Patients who have severe interstitial lung disease who start to lose weight unintentionally may be experiencing e...

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Appendicitis: Up-front antibiotics OK in select patients

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: December 15, 2021

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

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: December 8, 2021

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

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: December 8, 2021

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 Bla...

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Poor night’s sleep impairs glucose control the next morning

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: December 2, 2021

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 brea...

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HPV vaccines reduce cervical cancer rates in young females

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: December 1, 2021

HPV vaccination programs have been remarkably successful at reducing cervical cancer rates in young females provided they are vaccinated early prio...

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Big drop in U.S. cervical cancer rates, mortality in younger women

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: November 29, 2021

This analysis lines up with previous evidence from U.S. epidemiologic data.

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Rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps lowers QoL in COPD

Author:: Pam Harrison

Publish date: November 23, 2021

In the COPD group, “severe” and “very severe” airflow obstruction was present in 56.5% of patients with RSsNP com...