BYLINE: Enrique Rivero EMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL: 7:30 A.M. (ET) ON JANUARY 6, 2024 About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from overdoses in 2022,…
Read more About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from overdoses in 2022, driven by fentanyl-laced prescription pillsNew research published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that stem cell gene therapy may offer a promising, curative treatment for the painful, inherited blood disorder…
Read more New study shows promising evidence for sickle cell gene therapyNewswise — Amsterdam, Netherlands – 25 Aug 2023: Semaglutide improves heart failure-related symptoms and physical function and results in greater weight loss compared with placebo in patients with heart failure…
Read more Weight loss drug helps heart failure patients with obesity.Newswise — BALTIMORE, August 5, 2023–As artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT find their way into everyday use, physicians will start to see these tools incorporated into their clinical…
Read more AI Transformation of Medicine: Why Doctors Are Not PreparedNewswise — Patients who engage in light exercise while undergoing dialysis are physically fitter and are admitted to hospital less frequently than those who do not. These are…
Read more Dialysis exercise improves health, study saysNewswise — Mortality in patients with kidney failure has been found to be 23% lower among those treated with high dose haemodiafiltration compared to those treated with high…
Read more Major step forward reduces mortality in kidney failure patientsNewswise — In a true example of bench-to-bedside science, researchers at UC San Diego have identified the cause of a rare skin disorder, disabling pansclerotic morphea, and swiftly…
Read more UC San Diego Scientists Find Treatment for Severe Genetic Skin DisorderNewswise — BALTIMORE, April 6, 2023 – After helping to develop and test new mRNA technologies for COVID-19 vaccines, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers and…
Read more UM School of Medicine Researchers Chart Path Forward on Developing mRNA Vaccines for Infections Beyond COVID-19Newswise — مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا— يشارك دكتور سكندر العوضي، دكتور في الطب، اختصاصي الدَّمَويات والأورام في مركز مايو كلينك الشامل لعلاج للسرطان تفاصيل حول تطورات جديدة توصلت إليها الأبحاث ستفضي…
Read more خبراء السرطان في مايو كلينك يسلطون الضوء على التقدم المحرز في علاج الورم النقوي المتعددNewswise — Baltimore, MD, March 6, 2023— The recent public health emergency declarations in New York and London due to polio infections and detection of the virus in…
Read more Eradicating Polio Will Require Changing the Current Public Health StrategyBYLINE: Jim Dryden Newswise — For older adults with clinical depression that has not responded to standard treatments, adding the drug aripiprazole (brand name Abilify) to an antidepressant…
Read more Adding antipsychotic med to antidepressant may help older adults with treatment-resistant depressionUCLA Health Tip Sheet Feb. 21, 2023 Below is a brief roundup of news and story ideas from the experts at UCLA Health. For more information on these…
Read more UCLA Health tip sheet: Pesticides & Parkinson’s symptoms; Gender-affirming hormones improve mental health; Body composition & cardiovascular diseaseNewswise — Hamilton, ON (Feb. 9, 2023) – A team led by McMaster University researchers Gilmar Reis and Edward Mills has discovered that a single injection of pegylated…
Read more McMaster-led trial reduces COVID-19 hospitalization risk with single injectionNewswise — Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an allergic condition of the esophagus that is on the rise throughout the United States. Patients with the condition typically have inflammation…
Read more UNC Health Provider Ushers in First FDA-Approved Medication for Eosinophilic EsophagitisNewswise — In the Phase I/II CodeBreaK 100 trial, the KRAS G12C inhibitor sotorasib achieved meaningful anticancer activity with an acceptable safety profile in heavily pretreated patients with…
Read more Sotorasib shows clinically meaningful activity in KRAS G12C-mutated advanced pancreatic cancerHello –This new scientific discovery, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, should interest you for coverage. Below, please find link to full press release. Co-Senior…
Read more NEJM study: Researchers Discover Hidden Genetic Anomaly Behind Common Late-Onset Cerebellar AtaxiaNewswise — New York, NY (December 10, 2022) — A new therapy that makes the immune system kill bone marrow cancer cells was successful in as many as…
Read more Experimental Cancer Therapy Shows Success in More Than 70 Percent of Patients in Global Clinical TrialsNewswise — New onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with diabetes is highest among racial and ethnic minority groups compared with white persons, a UCLA-Providence study finds.…
Read more New Onset Chronic Kidney Disease in People with Diabetes Highest Among Ethnic, Racial MinoritiesKey Takeaways In a set of identical twins, investigators have discovered a disease that affects the mitochondria, or the specialized compartments within cells that produce energy Unlike in…
Read more New mitochondrial disease identified in identical twinsNewswise — CHICAGO (October 11, 2022): The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is aware of a European study examining colonoscopy in Sweden, Poland, Norway, and the Netherlands, “Effect…
Read more ACS comments on European study on colonoscopies published in New England Journal of Medicine
