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Radioligand Therapy Continues to Show Promise for Metastatic CRPC
Oncology/Hematology > Prostate Cancer — Median OS of 15.5 months, PFS of 7.9 months with Ac-225-PSMA in heavily treated patients by Charles Bankhead, Senior Editor, MedPage Today February 16, 2024 Radioligand therapy (RLT) with actinium-225 targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen (225Ac-PSMA) had a "substantial antitumor effect" in heavily pretreated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), a large
New digital therapy reduces anxiety and depression in people living with long-term physical health conditions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A therapist-guided digital cognitive behavioral therapy reduced distress in 89% of participants living with long-term physical health conditions, a new King's College London study finds. The findings appear in Psychological Medicine. Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London found that people living with long-term
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Replika’s new AI therapy app tries to bring you to a zen island
AI companion company Replika partnered with the team behind the AI dating simulator Blush to release Tomo, a wellness and meditation app with an AI-generated avatar guiding users. Its the kind of concept that seemed destined as soon as generative AI took off, but in the time I’ve spent with Tomo, I found myself wondering
7 Therapy Goals That Are Super Specific and Actually Achievable
A good therapist can certainly help you improve your mental health, but these pros aren’t magicians. You’ll have to work on yourself, too, and setting clear therapy goals is a great way to motivate and track your progress.It sounds pretty straightforward, but deciding what you want to focus on—and then creating a game plan with
Proton beam therapy
Vivien Williams: Standard radiation therapy is an effective way to treat many cancers but it isn't perfect. It kills cancer cells but it also kills healthy cells in its path through the body. That is just one of the reasons Mayo Clinic is bringing a new type of radiation therapy to its patients. It's called
Gene Therapy Offers New Way to Fight Alcohol Use Disorder
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The use of tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah) in children younger than 3 years of age with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) was as effective, and safe, in a retrospective cohort study as it was previously seen to be for older children in the ELIANA trial. In an analysis of 38 patients – most of
New therapy breakthrough changes the shape of treatment for undruggable diseases
DUBTACs are heterobifunctional molecules consisting of a protein-targeting ligand linked to a DUB recruiter via a linker. DUBTACs are ideally used for stabilizing the levels of actively ubiquitinated proteins that are degraded by the proteasome. Credit: Nomura Lab For some time, scientists have been working on the major challenge of developing new therapies against many…
HIV: Dual Therapy With Twice-Yearly Injections on the Horizon
One year into treatment with an every-6-month dose of the investigational drug lenacapavir (LEN, Gilead Sciences) in a dual-treatment combination, 88% of treatment-naive people living with HIV had undetectable viral loads. The findings, presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2022 Annual Meeting, also showed the drug was well tolerated, with 2…
Gene Therapy Shows Clinical Benefit in Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
An investigational gene therapy showed benefit in pediatric patients with early-onset metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a small study showed. Treatment with atidarsagene autotemcel (arsa-cel) preserved motor development and cognitive function in MLD patients enrolled in a prospective phase I/II trial or treated through expanded access programs, reported Alessandro Aiuti, MD, of the San Raffaele Telethon Institute…