FDA Approves CRISPER Treatment to Target Inherited Blood Disorder
This month the FDA has approved a treatment for an inherited blood disorder.The Casgevy treatment was developed through CRISPR gene-editing ...
Day: January 26, 2024
IBD Inflammation May be Reduced with Mood Interventions
Share on PinterestNew research suggests that mood interventions can help reduce inflammation for people who are living with inflammatory bowel ...
HPV Vaccine Highly Effective in Girls Years Later
TOPLINE:The vaccine Cervarix was effective in protecting women from cervical cancer when administered between ages 12 and 13 years, according ...
Chinese Herbal Medicine May Help People with Ulcerative Colitis Stay Symptom-Free
Share on PinterestResearchers studied if Indigo naturalis affected symptoms of ulcerative colitis. Marcus Chung/Getty ImagesPeople with ulcerative colitis who continued ...
Higher-Dose RT Extends Survival in High-Risk Prostate Cancer
For patients with high-risk prostate cancer, treatment with long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and high-dose radiation was associated with significantly ...
Europe Approves Neutropenia and Schizophrenia Treatments
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved Ryzneuta (efbemalenograstim alfa) as a treatment to reduce the duration of neutropenia and ...
IUS Monitoring of IBD May Prompt Faster Treatment Change
Monitoring inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with intestinal ultrasound (IUS) appeared to lead to earlier treatment changes and faster remission for ...
Can TikTok’s Sleepy Girl Mocktail Really Help You Sleep?
Share on PinterestConsisting of magnesium, tart cherry juice, and prebiotic soda, TikTok’s Sleepy Girl Mocktail is gaining popularity as a ...
Patch with octopus-like suckers helps drugs penetrate the skin
An adhesive patch to deliver drugs through the skin mimics octopus tentaclesJihyun Lee et al., ACS Nano journal 2024 A ...
Study Identifies Three Categories of Maternal Deaths
Peripregnancy maternal deaths can be classified into three distinct subtypes with different causes, not all of which are obstetric, according ...
Effective Treatments Identified for Pediatric Complication of COVID
PHOENIX -- First-line treatment with methylprednisolone and second-line treatment with tocilizumab (Actemra) shortened hospital stays for children with pediatric multisystem ...
Cabozantinib Plus Atezolizumab Delays Progression in mCRPC
SAN FRANCISCO -- In patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) whose disease progressed on a novel hormonal therapy, the ...
Skin cancer searches rise after Duchess diagnosis
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Pitfalls When Your Patient Turns to Telehealth-Only Medicine
Yalda Jabbarpour, MD, a family medicine physician in Washington, DC, has a sometimes months-long waiting list for patients. But often, ...
Value-Based Care: Filling Critical Gaps in Care and Clinician Leadership
David Nash is the Founding Dean Emeritus and Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at ...
Europe Approves Exblifep for UTIs and Pneumonia
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that the medicinal product cefepime-enmetazobactam (Exblifep) should be granted a marketing authorization for ...
Trial Backs Short Course of Antibiotics for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
PHOENIX -- Individualized short-course antibiotic treatment proved noninferior to usual long-course treatment for 60-day mortality and pneumonia recurrence in patients ...
Researchers Propose New Parkinson’s Definition Based on Biomarkers
Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not ...
No Cervical Cancer After HPV Vax; Brain Tumor Blood Test; Weight Loss and Cancer
A Scottish study found no cases of invasive cervical cancer in women who were vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) when ...
Olaparib-Abiraterone in Biomarker-Selected mCRPC Tops Each Agent Alone
SAN FRANCISCO -- Combining a PARP inhibitor with an androgen receptor pathway inhibitor as first-line therapy for biomarker-selected patients with ...
NEWSHEALTH : FDA Approves CRISPER Treatment to Target Inherited Blood Disorder