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- 'Huge Step Forward' in Advanced Ovarian Cancer 3 junio, 2023Adding both durvalumab and olaparib to standard-of-care treatment in newly diagnosed non-BRCA mutated advanced ovarian cancer represents a 'huge step forward,' says one expert. Medscape Medical News
- AI Efforts Make Strides in Predicting Progression to RA 2 junio, 2023Two independent efforts to use artificial intelligence to predict the development of early RA from patients with signs and symptoms not meeting full disease criteria showed good accuracy. Medscape Medical News
- How Fat Burden May Affect IBD Drug Dosing 2 junio, 2023Target levels of infliximab in patients with IBD and high visceral adipose fat burden may be higher, suggesting the potential need to personalize dosing strategies. Medscape Medical News
- New Chronic Constipation Guideline Weighs Treatment Options 2 junio, 2023Evidence for a range of prescription and over-the-counter therapies, along with specific recommendations for implementing them, are laid out in a joint AGA-ACG guideline. Medscape Medical News
- Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care Not Federally Funded 2 junio, 2023The researchers looked at key social needs areas and found major gaps between what interventions cost and what's covered by federal payers. MDedge News
- Promising Telitacicept Results Reported for Lupus, Sjögren's 2 junio, 2023Results of a phase 3 trial in Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus showed a significantly greater response rate with telitacicept, compared with placebo. MDedge News
- Anxiety, Your Brain, and Long COVID: What the Research Says 2 junio, 2023Having anxiety and depression before a SARS-CoV-2 infection increases the risk of developing long COVID. WebMD Health News
- Choosing SPF Is Only the Start When Recommending Sunscreens 2 junio, 2023A recent study found that 43% of dermatologists surveyed reported that they never, rarely, or only sometimes took a patient's skin type into account when making sunscreen recommendations. MDedge News
- 7 Tactics to Reduce EHR Tasks and Save Time 2 junio, 2023The EHR is a major source of frustration for doctors. Here's how some hospitals and doctors are eliminating time-consuming tasks. Medscape Medical News
- Intervention Reduces Severe Postpartum Hemorrhage by 60% 2 junio, 2023A study conducted in various African nations suggests that the new approach could radically improve women's chances of surviving childbirth internationally. Medscape Medical News
- Listening Habits May Affect Music's Benefits for Memory 2 junio, 2023Researchers found that music's positive effects on memory are modulated by differences between patients relating to the use of music in their lives. Medscape Medical News
- MDs With Chronic Illness Live in a Different Medical World 2 junio, 2023Physicians with chronic illnesses face unique professional challenges, including resistance from other physicians when they seek treatment. But they also have a much richer understanding of their own patients. Medscape Medical News
- Continuous Glucose Monitors Come to Hospitals 2 junio, 2023The technology could improve care for hospitalized people with diabetes, experts say, but it's too early to abandon other glucose measurement tools. Medscape Medical News
- Why Not Both? Dual Biologics for RA and PsA 2 junio, 2023Previous clinical trials of dual biologic therapies have raised safety issues, but more recent, promising findings from clinical trials and case series have renewed interest in the treatment approach. Medscape Medical News
- Oncologist Pleads Guilty to Prescription Drug Fraud 2 junio, 2023New Jersey–based oncologist Anise Kachadourian, MD, faces a fine and several years in prison for her part in a fraudulent for-profit scheme. Medscape Medical News