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Adding atezolizumab to chemo doesn’t worsen QOL in early TNBC
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- Neil Osterweil
After an initial decline, quality of life measures rebounded for patients treated with atezolizumab or placebo plus chemotherapy.
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Pediatric regimens better for adolescents/young adults with aggressive B-cell NHL
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- Neil Osterweil
The risk of relapse was more than fourfold higher for patients with DLBCL or Burkitt’s lymphoma treated at adult...
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Diabetes prevention diet may lower mortality risk in breast cancer
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- Neil Osterweil
Among participants in two iterations of the Nurses’ Health Study, healthier diets were linked to lower breast...
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Emotions, worse attention linked to pain-related health care use in SCD
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- Neil Osterweil
Poorly controlled emotions and poor cognitive test scores were predictors for sickle cell disease pain-related...
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Childhood Hodgkin survivors have neurocognitive impairment
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
An analysis of survivors showed higher levels of impairment across four domains, but the difference may be...
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Durable responses with anti-BCMA CAR T-cell for multiple myeloma
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Seventy-two percent of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma had ongoing responses at the time of data cutoff in the CARTITUDE-1...
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AASLD 2020: A clinical news roundup
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
A panel of reviewers highlighted abstracts from the digital edition of the 2020 Liver Meeting in the annual Clinical News Debrief.
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Pronounced racial differences in HBsAg loss after stopping nucleos(t)ide
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Patients of White background had a nearly sixfold higher chance for functional cure of hepatitis B infection.
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HCC rates slow in cities, continue to climb in rural areas
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Disparities in hepatocellular carcinoma incidence rates between urban and rural areas vary by race/ethnicity.
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Liver-related deaths decline after Medicaid expansion under ACA
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Investment in Medicaid expansions paid off in fewer liver-related deaths and a decrease in racial/ethnic disparities.
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Metapneumovirus infections clinically indistinguishable from flu, RSV
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- Neil Osterweil
Those at risk for severe or fatal metapneumovirus infections include frail elderly and patients with...
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Liquid biopsy captures key NASH pathology hallmarks
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Scanning for key proteins in serum identified fibrosis, inflammation, hepatocyte ballooning, and steatosis with high accuracy.
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Sjögren’s symptom clusters may identify treatment options
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Patients with Sjögren’s syndrome can be grouped into one of four symptom clusters that can inform research and potentially targeted therapies.
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JIA guideline calls for earlier use of targeted therapies
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis can benefit from earlier introduction of biologic DMARDs, an expert consensus panel said.
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RECIPE trial cooks up gout therapy improvement
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- Neil Osterweil
Serum uric acid levels were significantly lower at 12 and 24 weeks for patients with refractory gout who received pegloticase plus mycophenolate...