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Staff education cuts psychotropic drug use in long-term care
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- Neil Osterweil
Authors explain why they suspect the positive effects of nurse training on drug use and costs were transient.
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Treatment shows 'important improvements' in triple-negative breast cancer
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- Neil Osterweil
Survival of patients without an initial diagnosis of triple-negative breast cancer was better with the antibody-drug conjugate, compared with...
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Study supports add-on therapy for germline and wildtype BRCA mutations
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- Neil Osterweil
The findings put to rest the notion that patients with germline BRCA mutations would not benefit from carboplatin treatment because of sensitivity...
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‘New first-line standard of care’ in cervical cancer
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- Neil Osterweil
“Data from KEYNOTE-826 suggest that pembrolizumab plus platinum-based chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab may be a new first-line standard of...
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Earliest 9/11 responders have higher COPD rates
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- Neil Osterweil
Those who arrived at the site within 48 hours had an approximately 30% higher risk of developing COPD than those...
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Poor lung function linked to risk for sudden cardiac death
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- Neil Osterweil
Every standard deviation decrease in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) was associated with...
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Fibrosis progression flies below the radar in subclinical ILD
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- Neil Osterweil
Patients with connective tissue diseases should be monitored for subclinical interstitial lung disease and fibrosis, experts say.
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Obese children with asthma are resistant to ICS
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- Neil Osterweil
Combined data from observational studies show a more than twofold greater risk for exacerbations, compared with...
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Infants breathe better when pregnant moms exercise
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- Neil Osterweil
Physical activity during pregnancy has been demonstrated to reduce the risk of preterm birth, cesarean birth, and children being born either...
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COVID-19 spares lung function in young adults
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- Neil Osterweil
“We found no effect of COVID-19 on spirometric lung function in generally healthy adults.”
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CAR T-cell therapy drives refractory SLE into remission
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- Neil Osterweil
B-cell depletion with chimeric antigen receptor T cells induced both serologic and clinical remissions in a patient with treatment-resistant lupus...
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How many years of aromatase inhibitor therapy in breast cancer?
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- Neil Osterweil
Postmenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive breast cancer may need only 2 years of additional endocrine therapy instead of 5, shows a new...
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Good survival, outcomes with TARE for HCC in practice
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- Neil Osterweil
Transarterial radioembolization was successfully employed with good safety across 25 centers in eight European countries.
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Testosterone replacement shows CV benefit in hypogonadal men
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- Neil Osterweil
Among men with hypogonadism who received testosterone replacement every 3 months, cardiovascular parameters were better and there were fewer...
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Fibrosis severity in ALD predicts survival
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- Neil Osterweil
Having significant or advanced fibrosis puts patients with ALD at high risk of death or decompensation in the short term.