According to an article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), although pediatric CT use has decreased for the evaluation of abdominal pain (perhaps due to implementing an ultrasound-first strategy for suspected appendicitis), CT use has continued to increase among adults with abdominal pain in U.S. emergency department (ED) visits. “Although trends in CT use […]
Although SARS-CoV-2 genetic material may still be detected in respiratory or stool samples for several weeks, no live virus (that can cause infection) was found in any type of sample collected beyond nine days of symptoms starting and people with SARS-CoV-2 are mostly likely to be highly infectious from symptom onset and the following five […]
12 November 2020 — The CALAVI Phase II trials for Calquence (acalabrutinib) in patients hospitalised with respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint. The addition of Calquence to best supportive care (BSC) did not increase the proportion of patients who remained alive and free of respiratory failure. No new safety signal for Calquence was observed in the […]
Every time the phone rang, it seemed to Kristine Smoley like more bad news about her husband, who contracted COVID-19 and was in a hospital intensive care unit on a ventilator because he couldn’t breathe on his own. Smoley was prepared for the worst when a nurse from Duluth’s Essentia Health called with hope—albeit with […]
A significant portion of cancer patients may be less likely to enroll in a clinical trial due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to an article published this week in JAMA Oncology, nearly 1 in 5 cancer patients surveyed said the pandemic would make them less likely to enroll in a trial. The top reason […]
Immune-boosting drug therapy that gives years of extra life to patients with incurable bladder cancer like Tracey Emin’s Artist Tracey Emin has admitted she is suffering an aggressive bladder cancer The Turner Prize-nominated artist earlier said she could die before Christmas British researchers have been working on a new immunotherapy treatment Bladder cancer affects some […]
MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 — Rural Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) spend more time in nursing homes, receive less home health care, and have shorter survival than their urban counterparts, according to a study published online Oct. 22 in JAMA Network Open. Momotazur Rahman, Ph.D., from the Brown University School of […]
Younger patients with resected melanoma had some benefit from adjuvant treatment with the anti-VEGF therapeutic bevacizumab (Avastin) while older patients with resected melanoma did not, according to results published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Preclinical data showed that VEGF, a protein that promotes angiogenesis and is the […]
A comparative study between hospitalized coronavirus and Influenza patients revealed that Covid-19 patients had fewer comorbidities and lower medication use than influenza patients. The study was done on the patients from the US and Spain. It was published by the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community. OHDSI has established an international network of […]
FRIDAY, Oct. 9, 2020 — Prescriptions of cholesterol-lowering statins for heart disease patients rose significantly when doctors were prompted to choose whether or not to order them, according to a new study. It included 82 cardiologists and more than 11,000 patients. Doctors randomly received one of two “nudges,” or notifications, in their patients’ electronic health […]