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Does private equity ensure survival of GI practices?
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- Neil Osterweil
Private equity offers the allure of financial and administrative stability.
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Geriatric care principles should apply to ICUs as well
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- Neil Osterweil
Physical frailty, disabilities, and multimorbidities increase the risk for adverse outcomes among elderly patients with obstructive airways...
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Multiprong strategy makes clinical trials less White
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- Neil Osterweil
Only a small percentage of eligible patients participate in clinical trials in the first place, and very few come from racial and ethnic minority...
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CBSM phone app eases anxiety, depression in cancer patients
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- Neil Osterweil
Few patients with cancer have access to psycho-oncologic support.
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T-DXd active in many solid tumors; ‘shift in thinking’
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- Neil Osterweil
T-DXd is a potential new treatment option for patients with HER2-expressing solid tumors, experts say.
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CAR T-cell benefit in lenalidomide-refractory myeloma
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- Neil Osterweil
“Early CAR Ts demonstrating efficacy and safety and prior lines of treatment impact survival from CAR T in myeloma. Can this also be true for...
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CMML: GM-CSF inhibitor lenzilumab shows early promise
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- Neil Osterweil
The PREACH-M trial has yielded encouraging preliminary results in treating CMML, a rare, “insidious” leukemia that can transform into AML.
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Less therapy may suit older patients with breast cancer
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- Neil Osterweil
“Do we absolutely have to do a mastectomy for a patient who has a second episode of cancer in the same breast? The answer is no.”
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Oral drug for brain tumor could change treatment landscape
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- Neil Osterweil
Vorasidenib was associated with a significant delay in time to disease progression when compared with placebo, in a new study.
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Up-front pembro plus chemo boost survival in cervical cancer
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- Neil Osterweil
Adding immunotherapy resulted in a 40% reduction in risk of death, compared with chemotherapy alone, for women with advanced cervical cancers...
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Ribociclib forestalls recurrence also in early breast cancer
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
New results come from an interim analysis of a phase 3 randomized trial comparing maintenance therapy with ribociclib plus endocrine therapy with...
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Limit PSA screening to men with symptoms
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- Neil Osterweil
This would reduce potential harms from overdiagnosis and overtreatment, the risk for which is high with the on-demand screening that is the...
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Analysis: 40% of information about cirrhosis on TikTok is incorrect
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- Neil Osterweil
Study presented at DDW finds that patient-derived sources are usually trustworthy, promotional sources are often misleading.
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Misdiagnosis, mismatch still common in pancreatic cystic neoplasms
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- Neil Osterweil
A new study suggests that with better diagnosis a significant proportion of patients with pancreatic cystic neoplasms could be spared from surgery...
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Meat heavy diets may lead to ulcerative colitis flares
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- Neil Osterweil
Patients with ulcerative colitis and meat-heavy diets had twice as many flares as those who ate less meat.