For patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), dupilumab maintains its clinical effectiveness up to five years and is discontinued by 23.8% of patients, according to a study published online Aug. 7 in JAMA Dermatology.
Aug 12, 2024
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"I saw everything," says 74-year-old Harry Stackhouse from Illinois, who was awake during his recent kidney transplant. He felt no pain as he chatted with doctors, examined the donor organ, and watched the surgical team staple ...
Aug 7, 2024
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Axicabtagene ciloleucel, commonly known as axi-cel, is an innovative immunotherapy that uses modified T cells to target and destroy cancer cells. Approved for patients who have not responded to at least two prior lines of ...
Aug 5, 2024
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Affecting as many as 6 million people in the United States, atrial fibrillation (or AFib) occurs when the heart's upper chambers beat out of coordination with the lower chambers, resulting in an irregular and often rapid ...
Aug 5, 2024
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Just as coronavirus transmission fluctuated in waves, so too have our responses to it. The world is four years from the acute phase of the pandemic, but not without lasting impact—including those who have maintained debilitating ...
Jul 29, 2024
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For patients with cervical radiculopathy, posterior foraminotomy provides outcomes comparable to those of the more commonly performed anterior cervical discectomy, reports a randomized clinical trial in the Journal of Bone ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Researchers studying the mpox virus have made an interesting observation which may relate back to an outbreak of smallpox in Glasgow in 1950.
Jul 19, 2024
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Relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a blood cancer, has an extremely poor prognosis because of resistance to anti-cancer drugs and frailty of the patient's organ functions. A type of anti-tumor immunotherapy ...
Jul 18, 2024
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University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel prompt, or 'nudge' embedded in the electronic health record that flags, for treating surgeons, older patients with early-stage breast ...
Jul 17, 2024
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A new study has revealed significant discrepancies in the prescription of COVID-19 antivirals, indicating that many patients may not have received the most effective treatment available.
Jul 11, 2024
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