AAM Report: Generics and Biosimilars Generate $408 Billion in 2022
September 15th 2023A report from the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) highlighted the value of biosimilars and generics, revealing that lower-cost versions of originator products accumulated $408 billion for the US health care system in 2022.
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Infections, Rather Than Inflammation or Autoimmune Disease, Associated With Dementia Development
September 14th 2023A nationwide study conducted in Denmark found an association between dementia incidence and previous exposure to infection, but the potential impacts of systemic inflammation or autoimmune diseases on dementia incidence were not as clear.
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Memory Consolidation in Epilepsy Enhanced During Sleep With Deep Brain Stimulation
September 14th 2023Researchers developed a novel “closed-loop” system that delivered electrical pulses in a brain region to synchronize brain activity recorded from another region in the brain to improve memory.
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Depression Can Impact Smoking Cessation in Patients With COPD, Study Says
September 13th 2023Researchers noted that the relationships between smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and depression must be recognized to effectively manage the complicated care needs for this patient population.
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Long-Term Data Show Consistent OS Benefit With Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab in mNSCLC
September 13th 2023The combination demonstrated durable survival benefits among patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) regardless of PD-L1 expression levels at a minimum follow-up of more than 6 years.
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Atezolizumab Misses PFS End Point in Recurrent Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
September 12th 2023Results from ATLANTE/ENGOT-ov29 show that atezolizumab did not significantly improve progression-free survival (PFS) compared with placebo plus bevacizumab for patients with platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.
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Novel, Automated Ventilatory Burden Measure Shows Promise to Gauge OSA Severity
September 12th 2023Automated ventilatory burden can effectively assess obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity, estimate cardiovascular (CVD) mortality, and may present a promising alternative to apnea-hypopnea index (AHI).
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Patients With NSCLC Describe Experiences of Symptoms on Daily Life
September 12th 2023Patients with advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were able to specify a 1-point threshold when describing meaningful symptom change, for better or worse, that helped illustrate their symptom experience.
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What We’re Reading: Updated COVID-19 Vaccines; National Blood Shortages; Lack of Doctor Diversity
September 12th 2023FDA approves updated COVID-19 booster vaccines; low donor turnout and climate disasters result in a national blood shortage; minority patients discouraged by lack of doctor diversity.
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