Patient-reported outcome (PRO) data are collected in oncology trials to determine patients' perspectives of cancer treatment—unfortunately often too briefly, for example only up to the point when an X-ray shows tumor growth ...
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Aug. 1, 2023 would have been Henrietta Lacks's 103rd birthday. It was also the day the Lacks family reached a settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech company that used and profited from her "HeLa" cells.
Aug 4, 2023
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Two new studies published by The BMJ today examine the potential health risks for infants of giving steroid drugs to women who are at risk of giving birth early.
Aug 2, 2023
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A new study by researchers at the Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) surveyed public health departments in the U.S. to understand ...
Aug 2, 2023
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A quarter (24%) of autistic doctors have attempted suicide, and more than three-quarters (77%) have considered it, according to a new study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), Thomas Jefferson University and Autistic ...
Jul 27, 2023
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Medications for alcohol use disorder are underutilized in British Columbia, despite their safety and effectiveness, according to a new study published today in the journal Addiction.
Jul 25, 2023
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The United States has significant gaps in its pandemic and public health emergency response system leaving it unprepared for future emergencies, says the American College of Physicians (ACP) in a new policy paper. In the ...
Jul 25, 2023
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In the next 20 years, there will be a substantial global rise in multimorbidities, with consequences for patients, caregivers, health care systems and society. Addressing this challenge requires a shift in the prevailing ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Two drugs commonly used to treat inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis did not shorten recovery time for patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 but did reduce the likelihood of death when compared ...
Jul 10, 2023
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A research study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion found that the more that lifestyle medicine clinicians were able to incorporate lifestyle medicine into their medical practices, the less likely they ...
Jul 7, 2023
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