A large, snow-white ulcer swelled up on the dangly tissue at the back of a man’s throat, but doctors couldn’t immediately explain why. It turns out that a single-celled parasite was the culprit, and it had likely been hanging around the man’s body for five years. According to a new report of the case, published […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Red Cross now accepts blood donations from gay men. In May the Federal Drug Administration ended its policy that prevented many gay men from donating blood, allowing the Red Cross to end its own policy. What You Need To Know The Red Cross is accepting blood from gay and bisexual people The […]
Survivors of common lymphoid neoplasms (LNs) have increased risks for therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia (tMDS/AML), although risks have been lower in more recent years, according to a study published in the July issue of eClinicalMedicine. Lindsay M. Morton, Ph.D., from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues identified 1,496 tMDS/AML cases among […]
It’s an idea that has finally gained scientific consensus: Dogs can be a faster, more precise, less expensive — not to mention friendlier — method of detecting COVID-19 than even our best current technology. A growing number of studies over the last two or so years has highlighted the power of dogs in detecting the […]
Brian A. Van Tine, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Medical Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, discusses findings from the overall survival (OS) analysis of the phase 2 SPEARHEAD-1 trial (NCT04044768) in patients with advanced synovial sarcoma. The ongoing SPEARHEAD-1 trial is investigating the T-cell […]
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For parents, few words are more earth-shattering than when a pediatrician says the phrase “heart defects.” What follows can seem like a lifetime of sleepless nights, surgical procedures, medications, insurance worries and social nightmares. Many parents become so preoccupied with the mission of saving their child, they can miss a crucial truth. One day their […]
The FDA previously approved the xT CDx assay for assessing microsatellite instability (MSI) status among patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) in May 2023. The FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to the HLA-LOH assay as a companion diagnostic test for use in patients with solid tumors, according to a press release from Tempus.1 The assay […]
Both people died from severe Vibrio vulnificus infections after contracting the bacteria either by consuming raw shellfish or swimming in brackish water in Long Island Sound, according to the Connecticut Department of Public Health. A third Connecticut resident who developed an infection has been released from the hospital. All three cases involved people between the […]
Patients who are undergoing aggressive treatment for blood cancer tended to have poorer survival outcomes and a higher likeliness of being hospitalized if they are lacking social support, according to recent research published in the journal, JNCCN. “In other health care settings, social support, or essentially, the surrounding support that you receive from loved ones, […]