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Cancer drug shortages spur worry, rationing, and tough choices
Limited supplies of crucial medications are disrupting patient care, oncologists say.
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ACS officer provides ASCO highlights: Targeting hidden cancer, AI in oncology
A pair of new studies show that drugs can reduce cancer risk when cells are elusive.
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Breast cancer experts and other HCPs disagree on treatment strategies for early BC
It’s challenging for some oncologists to keep up with the nuances of a rapidly changing field, said the author of new research.
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What’s best for patients who are dying of anorexia?
Psychiatrists must grapple with questions of law, capacity, and resources.
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Treatment-resistant depression? Don’t forget about MAOIs
Psychiatrists urge colleagues to ignore myths about venerable drugs and consider them in appropriate patients.
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Psychiatrists: Don’t fear clozapine in treatment-resistant schizophrenia
Benign ethnic neutropenia “does not increase the risk of clozapine-induced severe neutropenia,” said Dr. Laura Clarke.
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Higher buprenorphine doses help OUD patients stay in treatment
Opioid users stick around when they get more withdrawal relief, addiction clinic finds.
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Chemo avoidance pays off for some women with HER2+ early BC
Almost all patients who skipped chemotherapy avoided invasive disease/death at 3 years.
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Breast cancer: Meta-analysis supports ovarian suppression/ablation
Controlling estrogen seems to give premenopausal women a lifespan boost, but strategy remains uncommon.
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Buprenorphine update: Looser rules and a helpful injectable
As overdose epidemic continues, new regulations change landscape for opioid addiction therapy.
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Blood cancer patient takes on bias and ‘gaslighting’
Having battled Hodgkin lymphoma and the health care system itself, a young public relations specialist is on a mission.
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Quick medication, better communication linked to less violence at inpatient psych unit
Clinicians emphasized quick access to antipsychotic medication and more staff communication.
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Adult tonsillectomies work and they’re cost effective
There are sparse data about the value of the procedure, which has fallen out of favor.
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Breast cancer outcomes are worse for Black men
Black Americans are more likely to be diagnosed at older ages and to die from the disease.
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Black people most likely to be restrained in EDs
Researchers blame racism for both findings of an analysis of 3 North Carolina hospitals.