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NHS England starts pilot trial of blood test for many cancers
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- Liam Davenport
Patients with head and neck, pancreatic, and other hard-to-spot cancers could soon have their disease picked up early with a simple blood test if...
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Age no barrier to weight loss in those with morbid obesity
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- Liam Davenport
Health care professionals should recognize the importance of weight loss in the older patients and include them in programs to treat obesity, say...
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Metformin improves most outcomes for T2D during pregnancy
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- Liam Davenport
But the drug was associated with an increased risk of small-for-gestational-age babies.
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LSD microdosing to boost attention: Too soon to tell?
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- Liam Davenport
There have been fewer than 20 published placebo-controlled studies examining psychedelic microdosing in humans - and much of the current evidence...
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Deep brain stimulation ‘promising’ in severe schizophrenia
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- Liam Davenport
The final results revealed an association between DBS and significant improvements in PANSS scores, as well as reductions in doses of...
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‘Paradigm shift’ in gastric junction cancers with nivolumab
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- Liam Davenport
Phase 3 trial results support the use of nivolumab as first-line or adjuvant therapy for gastric or...
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Lenvatinib combo may offer hope after immunotherapy in melanoma
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- Liam Davenport
Levatinib appears to overcome resistance to PD-1/PD-L1 inhibition in patients with advanced melanoma.
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Abemaciclib cuts early recurrence in high-risk breast cancer
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- Liam Davenport
Abemaciclib improved invasive disease-free survival when added to endocrine therapy.
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First-in-class ADC ups survival in mTNBC
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- Liam Davenport
Sacituzumab govitecan prolonged progression-free and overall survival.
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ECG promising for predicting major depression, treatment response
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- Liam Davenport
On average, depressed patients had a heart rate that was roughly 10-15 beats per minute higher than healthy controls.
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The gut a new therapeutic target for major depression?
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- Liam Davenport
“This finding further ... suggests a role in response to antidepressants,” said coinvestigator Andrea Fontana, MSc.
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The march of immunotherapy continues at ESMO 2020
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- Liam Davenport
At the ESMO 2020 Congress, there will be no shortage of advances in cancer care on display, say experts....
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Sintilimab scintillates in first-line nonsquamous NSCLC
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- Liam Davenport
Adding sintilimab to pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy improved progression-free survival in patients...
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Chemo-free management of mesothelioma on horizon
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- Liam Davenport
Combination nivolumab and ipilimumab could replace chemotherapy for patients with treatment-naive mesothelioma,...
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Aerobic exercise may up brain-training benefits in schizophrenia
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- Liam Davenport
"Aerobic exercise showed a dose-response relationship to cognitive improvement," the researchers reported.