WASHINGTON — Timing matters when it comes to combining immunotherapy with chemoradiation in limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC), according to the phase 3 NRG-LU005 trial presented at the American...

N. Adam Brown is a practicing emergency physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare executive. He is the founder of ABIG Health, a healthcare growth strategy firm, and a professor at the University...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Pediatricians and other healthcare providers have a valuable role to play in screening parents for firearm ownership and offering counseling on safe storage practices, according to researchers...

WASHINGTON — A phase 2 study has demonstrated encouraging results for lutetium-177 (177Lu) dotatate in patients with surgery- and radiation-refractory meningioma.Kenneth Merrell, MD, MS, presented the findings, which, he said,...

TOPLINE:High levels of urinary cadmium are associated with double the risk for global cognitive impairment in White adults, a new study shows. There was no such association between the heavy...

Cannabis use is becoming increasingly common among people with diabetes. A recent US prevalence study estimated that 9% adults with diabetes used cannabis in the last month, a 33.7% increase...

TOPLINE:Physician training in shared decision-making does not increase the proportion of older adults who receive their preferred colorectal cancer (CRC) screening approach, new research suggests. METHODOLOGY:Recent guidelines recommend that shared decision-making...

About 40% of patients with brain metastases who experienced cognitive decline after brain radiation therapy regained full cognitive function within 6 months following treatment, a new analysis found. Barring full cognitive...

Medical school hasn't changed much over the last few decades. However, the longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, has changed the way medical students...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Trump has yet to release his medical records he promised to share. (New York Times) San Diego doctor Mark Chavez, MD,...

Medicare will speed nationwide payment decisions for as many as five promising new medical devices a year, a move that could get some products to patients earlier and spare companies...

At the end of 2020, Giulia Marchetti was puzzled that many of the patients hospitalized during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic were returning to her infectious diseases clinic...

Sodium valproate is an effective epilepsy drug, but it isn’t recommended to take during pregnancyMiljan Zivkovic/Shutterstock The drug rapamycin could prevent the epilepsy medication sodium valproate from causing developmental problems...

BARCELONA, Spain — Trastuzumab deruxtecan (TDXd) shows promise as a treatment for HER2-low and HER2-ultralow hormone receptor (HR)–positive metastatic breast cancer, according to data from the DESTINY-Breast06 trial presented here...

AMSTERDAM — Following the report of results from a randomized trial in which a topically applied J inhibitor (JAKi) was highly active in patients with mild to moderate hidradenitis suppurativa...

Share on PinterestKylie Jenner says using nipple cream as a lip moisturizer is one of the best secrets of her daily skin care routine. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesIn a recent video, Kylie...

BARCELONA, Spain — Early findings from a real-world study of the dual-action antibody faricimab have shown sustained improvement in visual acuity and key biomarkers of retinal anatomy, with no new...

Newly issued guidelines for cancer screening in patients with dermatomyositis had 100% sensitivity in a single institution's cohort, though most of the cancers found would have been detected with standard...

A new approach to using stem cell–derived pancreatic islets has allowed a patient with type 1 diabetes (T1D) to come off insulin for 1 year.The chemically induced pluripotent stem cell–derived...

More women are matriculating to higher-paid physician specialty fields, especially surgery, but they still have a way to go before reaching parity with their male counterparts, an analysis found.Rising Interest...