A medic holds Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin vials during the countrywide inoculation drive, in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. Vishal Bhatnagar | NurPhoto | Getty Images India could become the world’s second largest Covid vaccine maker, and analysts say the country has the capacity to produce for both its own population and other developing
Month: February 2021
Children treated for cancer with approaches such as chemotherapy can develop therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (a second type of cancer) with a dismal prognosis. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have characterized the genomic abnormalities of 84 such myeloid neoplasms, with potential implications for early interventions to stop the disease. A paper detailing the work
The significant role and impact of structural racism needs to be considered in racial and ethnic health-disparities research, say the editors of the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The statement — The Groundwater of Racial and Ethnic Disparities Research: A Statement from Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes — was published
Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) plus lenvatinib (Lenvima) improved survival outcomes and response rates as a first-line treatment for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the randomized phase III CLEAR study showed. For the primary endpoint, median progression-free survival (PFS) reached a whopping 23.9 months with the anti-PD-1 immunotherapy plus VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) combination, as compared with
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Two of the nation’s top federal health agencies asked Maryland officials for help in bolstering their supplies of COVID-19 vaccines for their staff, underscoring the challenges of the vaccines’ initial rollout. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said he is seeking
This content originally appeared on Beyond Type 1. Republished with permission. By Stacey Simms Stacey: Tell me more about T1detect. Frank: T1Detect is an education and awareness program about type 1 diabetes(T1D) and its risks, and a very important component of that is making the [autoantibodies] test available to people. Because right now, they’re not
5 February 2021 — The KESTREL Phase III trial for AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) did not meet the primary endpoint of improving overall survival (OS) versus the EXTREME treatment regimen (chemotherapy plus cetuximab), a standard of care, in the 1st-line treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) whose tumours
If voicing your thoughts and emotions out loud feels intimidating, why not try therapeutic writing, which could do wonders for your mental health? There are many ways that the arts can guide us through difficult times – one of which is through therapeutic writing. You don’t need an English degree, to be the next Shakespeare,
Dr. Virginia Banks, an infectious disease specialist, is part of a group of Black physicians and scientists who are focused on ways to solve health-care disparities. Dr. Virginia Banks Dr. Virginia Banks says if the U.S. really wants to bring the pandemic to an end, it’s going to take mobile vans of vaccines in neighborhoods
Cisplatin is one of the most effective chemotherapy agents, used in just under half of pediatric cancer cases. Permanent hearing loss is a common side effect of this medication, but until now, studies have been too small and too varied to accurately characterize this risk. Today in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, investigators at
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The CDC on Friday released long-awaited guidance for how public K-12 schools in the United States should reopen, and advice on what to do to stay that way. The 35-page document makes clear the Biden administration’s position: “It is critical for
Anti-PD-1 immunotherapy after radical surgery in high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial cancer improved disease-free survival (DFS), regardless of PD-L1 status, a randomized phase III trial showed. In the intent-to-treat (ITT) population of the CheckMate 274 study, DFS reached 21 months in patients who received nivolumab (Opdivo) versus 10.9 months for those assigned to placebo (HR 0.70, 98.31%
One out of every four American children is currently struggling with food insecurity. During the pandemic, job losses and other financial tragedies have caused thousands of families not to be able to afford food, many for the first time. The burden on food banks and pantries has been increasing quickly. These organizations are straining under
For lovers of music, theater, and art, 2020 was a lost year. From March onward, it became clear that the public health risks posed by the Covid-19 pandemic were too great– large gatherings, whether for concerts, conventions, or other types of festivals– couldn’t go on. One year later, many countries still find the situation unchanged.
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Long-term COVID-19 recovery, aka COVID “long-hauler” syndrome, continues to challenge both clinicians and patients, with evidence on how best to manage the most common symptoms based primarily on cross-sectional studies and anecdotal reports. Until a clearer picture emerges from larger, prospective, and multicenter studies,
This content originally appeared on ForGoodMeasure. Republished with permission. In my humble opinion, picnics are ubiquitous with summer & no al fresco dining experience is complete without crisp, crunchy vegetables & an accompanying dip. Here’s one of our favorites. A simplified version of Greek Ktipiti, this recipe combines the briny tang of fresh feta with
Using publicly available coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data from Israel, a study suggests the BioNTech-Pfizer BNT162b2 vaccine is proving highly effective in the real world. Several vaccines have now been approved for COVID-19, and many countries have started intensive vaccination programs. In Israel, vaccination started on December 20, 2020. By the end of January, 33%
FDA Approves Evkeeza (evinacumab-dgnb) for Patients with Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Evkeeza (evinacumab-dgnb) as an adjunct to other low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering therapies to treat adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years
Learn how to discover you and your partner’s love languages, and unlock a whole new level of communication Communication – we all know it’s one of the key factors in a healthy, happy relationship. But, when it comes to expressing love, what happens if you’re speaking entirely different languages? The concept of “love languages” comes
Reopening indoor dining is “an extraordinarily reckless and premature decision” as new, more infectious variants of the coronavirus spread in the U.S., virologist Angela Rasmussen told CNBC Friday. Indoor dining resumed at a limited capacity in New York and Portland, Oregon, on Friday. “While I appreciate the economic importance of opening businesses back up and
In an effort to help schools reduce the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks as they resume in-person instruction, University of California San Diego and the County of San Diego are testing the Safer at School Early Alert system, an evidence-informed program to detect SARS-CoV-2 at schools and child care centers. Modeled after UC San Diego’s Return
In 1978, students attending the Berkeley campus of the University of California decided Valentine’s Day needed to go, and Condom Day, more precisely, Condom Week, should take its place. In the ensuing years, the month of February became National Condom Month. The point: to promote safer sex via educational events in an effort to raise
Care by locum tenens hospitalists, often thought to be an expensive solution to staffing shortages, may have advantages in patient outcomes and hospital costs, a new observational study suggests. The results — which surprised the researchers — may help debunk common perceptions that care either by teaching services or by locum tenens is inferior, lead
The CDC issued new guidelines for reopening K-12 schools on Friday that tie decisions around “phased” reopenings to rates of COVID-19 transmission in the community and that prioritize universal masking and physical distancing over other mitigation measures. “I want to be clear, with the release of this operational strategy, CDC is not mandating that schools
For over twenty years, Rhonda Murphy has encouraged locals in Fresno, CA to stay fit and healthy through her Workout Wednesdays featured on ABC30. She also replicates this program on her gym’s Facebook page, transforming them into livestreams. Typically, these short clips are informative messages about eating healthy and staying active, with tips and demonstrations
The latest findings highlight a link between damaging male stereotypes and poor mental health If you stopped to think about it, it’s likely that within minutes you’d be able to list countless examples of damaging gendered stereotypes that you have encountered in the media. From the hyper-masculine womanisers on reality TV shows to useless dads
by Christina JewettThis story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free. Thousands of counterfeit 3M respirators have slipped past U.S. investigators in recent months, making it to the cheeks and chins of health care workers and perplexing experts who say their quality is not vastly inferior to the real thing. N95
Patients with cluster headache face a double whammy: Physicians too often fail to recognize it, and their condition is among the most severe and debilitating among headache types. In fact, a new survey of patients with cluster headache shows that they rank the pain as worse than most other painful experiences in life, including childbirth,
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