Fever, headache, confusion, seizures, amputations or death. Meningitis is a very serious brain infection that can affect the body in many ways and needs to…
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Adding liposomal irinotecan to fluorouracil and leucovorin significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer after progression on gemcitabine plus cisplatin,…
A diagnostic product assessing the pulmonary “transcriptome” in a series of cases drawn from real life helped pulmonologists arrive at correct diagnoses of idiopathic pulmonary…
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia recovered no faster when treated with interferon beta-1a and remdesivir (Veklury) as when treated with remdesivir alone, data from the…
New evidence continues to emerge about how multiple sclerosis (MS) disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) may affect COVID-19 vaccine response. In a late-breaking presentation at the European…
The First Law of Thermodynamics, formulated in the 1800s, says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. For the human body, this principle of…
In a nod toward transgender inclusiveness, the FDA revised the iPLEDGE risk-modification program for isotretinoin by rewording the reproductive categories for patients. Beginning December 13,…
Over the past decade, Black and Hispanic patients were consistently more likely to receive invasive surgical procedures to manage a tubal ectopic pregnancy than white…
As private equity investment in healthcare continues to soar, Goldman Sachs and Charlesbank have scooped up a sprawling primary care network with a unique business…
For people with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) who contracted COVID-19, those on tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors fared better when it came to serious COVID-19…