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By MedPageToday - Jan 24, 2021
ICI COLITIS MORE COMMON IN METASTATIC DISEASE
Risk factors for adverse colitis-related outcomes among patients undergoing immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment for malignancy included...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 24, 2021
SITAGLIPTIN ADDED TO STANDARD PROPHYLAXIS MAY REDUCE INCIDENCE OF GVHD
Study Authors: Sherif S. Farag, Mohammad Abu Zaid, et al.; Paul J. Martin Target Audience and Goal Statement: Oncologists, hematologists,...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 24, 2021
OP-ED: LOS ANGELES EMS IS MAKING THE RIGHT CALL
Recently, Los Angeles County's Emergency Medical Services Agency has been in the news for its decision to stop transporting cardiac...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 24, 2021
OZEMPIC SEEKING HIGH DOSE OK; THYROID CANCER OVERDIAGNOSED IN KIDS?
Novo Nordisk filed for FDA approval of its once-weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist Ozempic at a higher dose of 2.0 mg. It's currently available...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 24, 2021
DIETS EASE SYMPTOMS IN CROHN'S
Both the Mediterranean diet and the Specific Carbohydrate diet were effective for symptom reduction in patients with Crohn's disease,...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 24, 2021
OP-ED: TELEHEALTH IS NOT JUST TECHNOLOGY
The COVID-19 pandemic has advanced the use of telehealth throughout the country, but the need to reach more patients, improve quality...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
LOW-DOSE IL-2 SHOWS PROMISE IN COLITIS
Low doses of the recombinant T-cell growth factor interleukin 2 were well tolerated among patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
DO MASK-WEARING POLICIES MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
CANCER PATIENTS ALSO MISUSE OPIOIDS: HOW CAN WE ID THOSE AT RISK?
Study Authors: Sriram Yennurajalingam, Joseph Arthur, et al. Target Audience and Goal Statement: Oncologists, pain management specialists,...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
INTESTINAL BIOMARKERS RESPOND TO OZANIMOD
Treatment with oral ozanimod reduced markers of intestinal inflammation among patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
IMPACT OF MASKS; HIGH VS LOW BLOOD OXYGEN: IT'S TTHEALTHWATCH!
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine,...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
COVID-19 POSES SPECIAL CHALLENGES TO CANCER CARE
This story was originally published on March 25, 2020. As part of MedPage Today's review of top stories in 2020, we are republishing...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT COVID AND CANCER
In March of 2020, during the first U.S. surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, MedPage Today published a story on oncology specialists from...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
OP-ED: LEADING BY EXAMPLE ON COVID VAX WON'T SWAY BLACK COMMUNITY
After months of waiting, an effective COVID-19 vaccine is finally here. Our brave medical workers, who have been on the front lines...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
I MISS THE WAITING ROOM
"Please wait. The meeting host will let you in soon." I am in the virtual waiting room for my weekly therapy session, the little waiting...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 23, 2021
OP-ED: THE COST OF LIABILITY
We'd only been living in Wellington, New Zealand, for 2 weeks when I had my first encounter with Kiwi emergency room care - not as...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 22, 2021
NEW FIRST-LINE KIDNEY CANCER COMBINATION GETS FDA NOD
WASHINGTON - The FDA approved the combination of nivolumab plus cabozantinib on Friday for treating advanced renal cell carcinoma in...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 22, 2021
GAME-CHANGER FOR ASYMPTOMATIC ALZHEIMER'S TRIALS?
Blood tests to screen for amyloid-beta could cut the need for PET scans in half in asymptomatic Alzheimer's research trials, a British...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 22, 2021
TRIAL BACKS METABOLIC SURGERY AS LONG-TERM DIABETES CURE
For long-term diabetes remission, metabolic surgery is an effective option, 10-year data suggested. In a randomized trial of 60 patients...
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By MedPageToday - Jan 22, 2021
TRACK THE VAX: NOW COMES THE HARD PART FOR VACCINE PRIORITIES
Topic: MedPage Today speaks with two experts to wade through ethical considerations as the U.S. undergoes the largest and fastest mass...
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6-Year-Old Renames The COVID Vaccine And Everyone's Here For It
“Fauci Ouchie” FTW Sometimes kids say the cutest things. Take, for instance, this adorable conversation ballet teacher Emma Scott had with one of her students about the...
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Convalescent Plasma Therapy Treats Severe COVID-19 In Immunocompromised Patient
Single intravenous infusion of convalescent blood plasma imparted a great recovery in an immunocompromised old lady who was suffering from a prolonged fatal and deteriorating...
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Health Ministry Says Over 15L Vaccinated, 11 Hospitalized In Inoculation Drive
The Union Health Ministry informed on Saturday that 15,37,190 people have been administered Covid-19 vaccines across the country so far.
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Joe Biden to squash President Trump's attempt to roll back coronavirus...
Joe Biden has rejected an effort by President Donald Trump to lift several Wuhan coronavirus travel restrictions on Monday, Jan. 18. The Trump administration enacted travel...
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2.5 Million Children Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Of Jan. 14
The hospitalization rate of children with COVID-19 has increased, too The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that since the beginning of the pandemic, about 2.5 million...
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Lessons Learned About COVID and Cancer
In March of 2020, during the first U.S. surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, MedPage Today published a story on oncology specialists from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance who shared...
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Stress can make you crave unhealthy foods, study finds
A recent study by researchers from Australia found that tense or stressed people have greater cravings for fast food, sweets and other unhealthy foods than people who aren't as...
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‘What should I eat?!' How to choose the best vegetarian and plant-based...
“What can I actually eat on a plant-based or vegetarian diet?” It's natural to wonder about your options. Carrots and broccoli are givens-of course. But are all plant-based...
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DR MICHAEL MOSLEY reveals the simple steps that could make it more effective
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: The Covid-19 vaccines are a modern-day miracle. It is a wonder such safe and effective vaccines were produced, tested and delivered in such record-breaking time.
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New First-Line Kidney Cancer Combination Gets FDA Nod
WASHINGTON - The FDA approved the combination of nivolumab plus cabozantinib on Friday for treating advanced renal cell carcinoma in the first-line setting. Support for...