Clinical trial of selpercatinib shows strong response for patients with non-small cell lung cancer
An international team of researchers has found that selpercatinib, a drug that precisely targets cancers driven by mutations or alterations
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Last-resort life support option helped majority of critically ill COVID-19 patients survive
It saved lives in past epidemics of lung-damaging viruses. Now, the life-support option known as ECMO appears to be doing
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Researchers set the stage to improve the efficiency of living kidney donor evaluations
Living kidney donation rates have remained stagnant over the last decade, and many potential living donors perceive the evaluation process
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‘A journey of a lifetime’
By itself, beginning medical school is a major milestone. But the entering class of 2024 also experienced several significant firsts
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Study shows that 40% of healthcare workers asymptomatic when COVID-19 positive, raising risk of silent transmission
A review of studies (meta-analysis) presented at this year’s ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Diseases (ECCVID, online 23-25 September) shows that
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AKI Occurs in 7 Percent of Those Hospitalized With COVID-19
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 — Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in 7 percent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and is
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Trial finds benefit of immunotherapy-chemotherapy combination in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer
Adding an immunotherapy agent to a three-drug chemotherapy regimen can improve the likelihood that early-stage triple-negative breast cancer will recede
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Screening UK Biobank blood samples identifies thousands of undiagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes
A study of approximately 200,000 blood samples from the UK Biobank has identified more than 2,000 undiagnosed cases of type
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Madrid region braces for new curbs as virus spirals out of control
At the epicentre of an explosion of new infections in Spain, the Madrid region was to unveil Friday a string
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This TikTok User Says She Uses Aspirin Face Masks to Get Rid of Acne—Is That Safe?
TikTok is pretty hit or miss when it comes to beauty hacks: The trendy heatless waves tutorial, for example—which uses
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