Article
Intentional weight loss protects against endometrial cancer
Women who deliberately lost 5% or more of their body weight during a 3-year period reduced their long-term risk of endometrial cancer by nearly 30...
News
Antiandrogen therapy improves survival after biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer
Adding antiandrogen treatment to salvage radiotherapy markedly improves long-term survival and disease-specific mortality, reduces the rate of...
News
Smaller, intrapericardial LVAD noninferior to HeartMate II
A smaller, centrifugal-flow left ventricular assist device that lies entirely within the pericardial space was found noninferior to the HeartMate...
News
Refractory RA patients respond well to peficitinib in phase II study
A 12-week course of daily oral peficitinib improved the severity of refractory rheumatoid arthritis in a manufacturer-sponsored phase II trial of...
Article
Residual disease burden is prognostic across breast cancer phenotypes
The Residual Cancer Burden measure is prognostic of long-term survival across all three phenotypic subtypes of breast cancer.
News
Adding bevacizumab improves PFS in extensive SCLC
Phase III study results show that combining bevacizumab with chemotherapy improves PFS in SCLC.
Article
Intermittent breaks from sunitinib feasible in metastatic RCC
Intermittent breaks from sunitinib therapy are feasible and don’t appear to compromise the agent’s clinical efficacy against metastatic renal cell...
News
HAART may contribute to profound escalation in syphilis
HAART may be contributing to the profound escalation in syphilis infections worldwide, perhaps by impairing immunity to <i>Treponema...
News
Asymptomatic carriage of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae ‘considerable’
Genetic analyses of bacterial isolates from four large U.S. hospitals “underscore the need for continued surveillance” of carbapenem-resistant...
News
Bezlotoxumab prevents recurrent C. difficile infection
Adding bezlotoxumab to standard antibiotic treatment of primary or recurrent Clostridium difficile infection reduces recurrences by 38%,...
News
USPSTF punts on sleep apnea screening
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force neither supports nor rejects screening asymptomatic adults for obstructive sleep apnea in the primary care...
News
Continuous glucose monitoring benefits patients with type 1 diabetes
A 6-month course of continuous glucose monitoring modestly reduced HbA1c levels in patients with type 1 diabetes who used multiple daily insulin...
News
Deferring RT for brain mets in EGFR-mutated NSCLC shortens survival
Deferring radiotherapy to administer epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors first doesn’t prolong overall survival, it...
News
Cardiac events after NSCLC radiotherapy occur early
Cardiac events are “relatively common,” affecting 23% of patients, and occur earlier than previously thought following radiotherapy for non–small-...
Article
Risk tool bests CDC criteria for initiating PrEP
A risk-assessment tool that incorporates behavioral data is more specific than are CDC criteria for initiating PrEP and would allow more targeted...