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  • December 06, 2018 8:21 AM | Deleted user
    December 6, 2018, HemOnc Today 


    Adjuvant ado-trastuzumab emtansine reduced risk for invasive recurrence by 50 percent compared with trastuzumab among patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer who still had residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and HER2-targeted therapy, according to results of the KATHERINE trial presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. 

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  • December 05, 2018 10:54 AM | Deleted user

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  • November 30, 2018 8:15 AM | Deleted user

    November 30, 2018, National Institutes of Health via Medical Xpress  

    NIBIB-funded researchers recently validated a rapid STD test that delivered accurate results in about 30 minutes for chlamydia, allowing patients to receive treatment immediately, thereby stemming the further spread of disease. Other analyses showed most women preferred the easy self-collection method the test offers.

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  • November 29, 2018 9:32 AM | Deleted user

    November 29, 2018, MedPage Today   

    While prenatal ultrasound imaging detected fetal abnormalities among most infants with intrauterine exposure to Zika virus, a few had abnormalities that were only seen during postnatal imaging, researchers found. 

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  • November 29, 2018 9:28 AM | Deleted user

    November 29, 2018, Medscape  

    A novel test engineered from a bacterial toxin has been shown to detect significant levels of a specific biomarker released into the blood by ovarian cancer cells at all stages of the disease, including the early stages, distinguishing patients with ovarian cancer from healthy unaffected controls, research indicates. 

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  • November 27, 2018 3:54 PM | Deleted user

    November 27, 2018, MedPage Today 

    Clinicians should offer pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral therapy to patients at high risk for HIV infection, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said. For the first time, the USPSTF reviewed the topic and determined that, when taken as prescribed, PrEP is highly effective at preventing HIV among those at high risk, and concluded with "high certainty" that there is a "substantial benefit" to use in this population ("A" recommendation). 

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  • November 21, 2018 8:36 AM | Deleted user

    November 21, 2018, Medscape  

    The overall infant mortality rate in the United States did not change much from 2011 through 2016, after declining 10 percent from 2007 through 2011, according to new data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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  • November 21, 2018 8:33 AM | Deleted user
    November 21, 2018, News Medical  


    Using technology similar to the type that powers facial and speech recognition on a smartphone, researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have trained a computer to analyze breast cancer images and then classify the tumors with high accuracy.  

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  • November 20, 2018 7:32 AM | Deleted user

    November 20, 2018, MedPage Today  

    Results of preliminary studies evaluating immune checkpoint inhibitors in ovarian cancer are good, but there are ways to make them better, experts said.

    "The first published experience in ovarian cancer shows very promising results and a much higher efficacy than expected from previously known mono-immunotherapeutics like vaccines or immuno-stimulants, but the positive results do not compare with the extraordinary results in other entities like melanoma, where checkpoint inhibition changed the game," said Klaus Pietzner, MD, of Charité-University Medicine in Berlin, and colleagues.

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  • November 19, 2018 8:10 AM | Deleted user

    November 19, 2018, Medgadget  

    Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a diagnostic method involving photoacoustic imaging, a technique that combines ultrasound and laser light. The development may allow clinicians to diagnose ovarian cancer earlier, helping to save lives.  

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