AMA President-Elect Confronts a New Challenge: A Brain Tumor
When he started to notice a couple of things about himself that were "off," Bobby Mukkamala, MD, president-elect of the ...
Day: November 22, 2024
Patients With Melanoma Brain Mets May Fare Better With RT Before Immunotherapy
HOUSTON -- Patients with melanoma brain metastases had better survival if they received radiotherapy (RT) followed by immunotherapy instead of ...
CGM Uptake Very Low for Vulnerable Diabetes Populations
Uptake of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) was relatively low among vulnerable diabetes patients in the largest national system of safety-net ...
What to Know About Marty Makary, Trump’s Potential FDA Pick
Multiple reports suggest that president-elect Donald Trump is considering Marty Makary, MD, MPH, to run the FDA. Here's what to ...
California Case Is the First Confirmed Bird Flu Infection in a U.S. Child
Health officials on Friday confirmed bird flu in a California child -- the first reported case in a U.S. minor. ...
New FDA Panel Weighs In on Regulating Generative AI in Healthcare
A newly assembled FDA advisory committee recommended several approaches to how the agency should handle regulation of generative artificial intelligence ...
Clonazepam Recall Grows Over Dangerous Labelling Error
Endo USA, Inc, has expanded its previously announced recall of clonazepam orally disintegrating tablets due to a packaging error that ...
Major Shifts in Urothelial Cancer Care: Immunotherapy Redefines Standards
Recent advances in immunotherapy and combination therapies are revolutionizing the treatment landscape for both metastatic and muscle-invasive urothelial cancer. In ...
Year in Review: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Notable news about inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in 2024 included a study evaluating loss of response to tumor necrosis factor ...
Parents ‘devastated’ over daughter’s suspected poisoning death
Squire Patton BoggsSimone White's parents described their daughter as a "soul who gave so much"The parents of British lawyer Simone ...
PVI Add-Ons Provide Better Control of Persistent AF
The addition of linear ablation plus ethanol infusion to pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) improves control of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ...
What is methanol and how does it affect the body?
Getty ImagesThe UK Foreign Office advises travellers: "Take care if offered, particularly for free, or when buying spirit-based drinks. If ...
Ophthalmologists Warn Against Surgery to Change Eye Color
Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral ...
Managing Patient Concerns in Axial Spondyloarthritis
People with back pain face some uncertainty in diagnosis that is unsettling to patients and physicians alike. But once a ...
Georgia Disbands Maternal Mortality Committee Over Leaked Abortion Info
Georgia's top health official dismissed all members of a state committee that investigates pregnancy-related maternal deaths after a committee member ...
Preserve the National Institute of Nursing Research’s Independence
Darcy-Mahoney is a professor, neonatal nurse practitioner, researcher, and educator. Menon is the dean of a college of nursing. Murray ...
First Long-Term Study ID’s Recovery Time for Brain Disorder
Recovery from anti–N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis can take 3 years or longer, with lingering memory, language and emotional problems, results ...
Advances in TNBC; Mixed News in Lung Cancer Report; Pancreatic Cancer Overdiagnosis?
A chemotherapy-free regimen of neoadjuvant nivolumab (Opdivo) with or without ipilimumab (Yervoy) induced immune activation in a majority of patients ...
Higher Early-Onset CRC Mortality Seen in Minorities
TOPLINE:Death rates for patients aged METHODOLOGY:US rates of EOCRC are increasing, with differences across racial and ethnic groups, but few ...
Treatment of Oligometastatic EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer
EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are effective treatments for EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, even after undergoing systemic ...
