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Precision Medicine Approach Shows Promise for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Oncology/Hematology > Other Cancers — Median OS as high as 43 months with mutation-guided targeted agents plus immunotherapy by Charles Bankhead, Senior Editor, MedPage Today October 25, 2024 Two prospective trials of immunotherapy in thyroid cancer, one of them negative, provided support for precision-medicine approaches that include immunotherapy. A trial of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) and mutation-selected
Incredible medicine that regrows teeth is about to enter human trials
First highlighted as part of a study in 2021, a tooth-regrowing drug is set to finally enter human testing this year. We covered plans for the drug to come to clinical trials last year, and now, it seems that human trials have been officially scheduled.The first phase of the human trials will kick off in
Can Medicine Integrate Spiritual and Religious Practice?
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Why Are Emergency Medicine Residents Disappearing?
Opinion > Prescriptions for a Broken System — How our healthcare system is financed is a central part of the problem by N. Adam Brown, MD, MBA March 20, 2023 The number of unfilled emergency medicine (EM) residency positions in this year's initial Match hit a record: 555. In 2022, there were 219 unmatched positions.
UChicago Medicine finalizes joint venture with AdventHealth
Skip to main content January 10, 2023 12:32 PM Two Chicago area health systems have solidified a deal to join forces and expand and improve care in the western suburbs. The University of Chicago Medicine and AdventHealth announced today that they officially formed a "joint venture" called UChicago Medicine AdventHealth. They say the combination of
How UVA Health’s Medicine HOME program reduces hospitalizations and readmissions
Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. THE PROBLEM In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year. This
West Virginia is the third most rural state in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The state is 24,320 square miles and is the only state located entirely in the area known as Appalachia, which faces gaps in educational achievement, employment and income as well as a variety of negative health consequences compared with the…
Measuring medicine use in livestock supports the fight against antimicrobial resistance
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Measuring how much antimicrobial medication is given to food animals is key to understanding how to slow antimicrobial resistance, when dangerous microbes get so used to antimicrobials that they evolve stronger defenses against them. However, measuring the actual antimicrobial use in animals on a large scale is still a logistical challenge.…
Women in Medicine
2 of 14 Elizabeth Blackwell, MD Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) made history in 1849 by becoming the first woman in U.S. history to receive a medical degree. 3 of 14 Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD In 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895) became the first Black woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree from New England…