Mixed Topics
From the Journals
E-cigarettes: Prices down, sales up
Trends for 2012-2016 suggest that “sales are responsive to their own price changes.”
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Changes to doctor payment for in-office drugs
A new index for frailty in myeloma that predicts survival based on biological age.
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Finally, new migraine drugs
The CMS will resume risk adjustment payments for 2017 despite litigation.
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Valsartan cancer risk is low
People with HIV develop more frailty even with treatment
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Free skin cancer screening highlights need
Alzheimer’s trial design could be a problem
From the Journals
CTCs linked to late recurrence in HER2–, HR+ breast cancer
Study is the first to show that this CTC assay may play a role in determining late clinical recurrence after local and systemic adjuvant therapy...
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Antibody cleared amyloid plaques, slowed cognitive decline
And claims that cannabis relieves noncancer pain go up in smoke.
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Blood pressure meds cut cognitive impairment risk
And HIV infection may double patients’ stroke rate.
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Is fish oil’s heart benefit a fish tale?
And how pregnancy and childbirth affect dementia risk.
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Is fibromyalgia one disorder – or two?
And breast cancer patients don’t get the financial counseling they want from their clinicians.
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Brain damage, slight benefit seen in epinephrine cardiac arrest
SGLT2 inhibitors, including dapagliflozin, appear to have a beneficial class effect.