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Upadacitinib effective against nonradiographic AxSpA
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- Neil Osterweil
The JAK inhibitor was effective and safe for patients with rheumatologist-diagnosed axial spondyloarthritis that did not meet radiographic...
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COVID-19 burnout? Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Recent surveys show up to 80% of health care workers reporting burnout.
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NAVIGATOR steers uncontrolled asthma toward calmer seas
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- Neil Osterweil
Nearly half of patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma who had a complete course of tezepelumab had a complete...
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Poorest children at higher risk for PICU admissions, death
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- Neil Osterweil
Children in poor neighborhoods may be more likely to receive care in lower-quality hospitals or may be treated differently from other children...
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Race-based spirometry may lead to missed diagnoses
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Adjusting for racial differences in lung-function measures appeared to miss emphysema in a significant...
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Age, skin cancer risks for ICI-induced bullous pemphigoid identified
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
“It’s harder to understand why a presumably antibody-mediated side effect would be more likely to have that cross-reactivity where the tumor...
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Preop nivolumab plus chemo ‘a quantum leap’ in NSCLC therapy
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- Neil Osterweil
The combination resulted in significantly longer event-free survival.
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Made-to-order TILs effective against metastatic melanoma
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
The product, called lifileucel, is custom made for each patient.
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‘Major advance’: Sotorasib benefit persists in KRAS+ NSCLC
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
The finding comes from an analysis of long-term follow-up data from the CodeBreaK100 trial.
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Sex differences in COPD slow to be recognized, treated
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Science and society have been slow to catch on to sex-based differences in clinical presentation and response to...
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Global melanoma incidence high and on the rise
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
The highest incidence and mortality rates of cutaneous melanoma are in wealthy nations, a new study shows.
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Adverse skin effects of cancer immunotherapy reviewed
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- Neil Osterweil
“The desirable, immune-mediated oncologic response is often achieved at the cost of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) that may potentially...
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Gene therapy for hemophilia A: `Truly transformative and liberating’
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- Neil Osterweil
This first-generation gene therapy offers a new choice for care that could be 'truly transformative and liberating' for eligible men with...
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CPAP has only small effect on metabolic syndrome
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- Neil Osterweil
Although the benefit was small, CPAP was more effective than nasal strips at reversing the metabolic syndrome in...
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Rare pediatric cancers persist 63 years after nuclear accident
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Near Los Angeles, the parents of kids whose cluster of rare leukemias and other cancers may be linked to a 1959 partial meltdown at Santa Susana...