Study Highlights Health, Economic Benefits of RSV Vaccine for Older Adults
January 19th 2022With no existing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine yet, researchers found that a vaccine comparable with the influenza vaccine could prevent tens of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths per year.
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Timely Cardiac Function Recovery Seen Among Children With COVID-19, MIS
January 19th 2022This new short-term matched study from investigators at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia investigated cardiac-related outcomes among pediatric patients presenting with COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome.
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Phase 3 Data for Pembrolizumab in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Show Significant Improvements in OS, PFS
January 18th 2022Merck had previously received accelerated approval for pembrolizumab for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); an FDA panel left the approval in place while waiting on results from KEYNOTE-394.
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CYNK-101 Receives Fast Track Designation for HER2-Positive Gastric/GEJ Cancers
January 18th 2022Natural killer cell therapy CYNK-101 was granted fast track designation by the FDA to treat HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma in combination with standard chemotherapy, trastuzumab, and pembrolizumab.
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Understanding Real-World Trends in MRD Testing as Part of MM Management
January 18th 2022An abstract presented at the 63rd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition assessed real-world data on patients with multiple myeloma to provide insight into longitudinal testing patterns and rates of sustained minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity.
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Israeli study finds the added antibody protection from a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose is not enough to prevent Omicron infection; Texas abortion law remains in effect after appeals court ruling; insurer spending for the unproven COVID-19 drug ivermectin was estimated at $2.5 million for a week last summer.
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Dr Kenneth Cohen Discusses COVID-19 Impact on Low-Value Care
January 17th 2022Kenneth Cohen, MD, FACP, executive director of clinical research at UnitedHealth Group Research and Development and senior national medical director at OptumCare, explains why low-value care still exists and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the issue.
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AI-Based Anomaly Detection Holds Promise in Screening for Retinal Diseases, Study Says
January 17th 2022Recent findings suggest that with more research, anomaly detection may be an option for general retinal disease screening and identification of novel presentations of common retinal diseases.
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MRD Kinetics Identify High-risk CLL in Study of Zanubrutinib, Venetoclax, Obinutuzumab
January 16th 2022An abstract presented at the 63rd American Society of Hematology Meeting & Exposition found that the regimen was effective and that MRD could potentially be used as a biomarker to inform treatment duration.
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Different Pathogeneses May Cause Dementia in Older, Younger Patients With PD
January 15th 2022Older patients with Parkinson disease (PD) were found to have a higher incidence of dementia compared with younger patients. However, the difference may have to do with different pathologies causing dementia in older and younger patients.
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