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The CAR T Veteran: A Journey of Resilience, Remission, and Advocacy

Laurie Adami's experience with CAR T-cell therapy highlights its potential in treating Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, emphasizing the importance of patient advocacy.

3 Feb 2025

Researchers discover key to boosting thymus regeneration after damage

A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, with its National Medical Center in Los Angeles ranked among the nation's top 5 cancer centers by U.S. News & World Report, have demonstrated a way to boost thymic function after damage in preclinical studies.

3 Feb 2025

Key information to consider before getting breast implants

Should I get breast implants? Should they be saline or silicone? Which style? How much monitoring is needed after surgery?

31 Jan 2025

Hormonal markers could lead to early detection of postpartum depression

Women who go on to develop postpartum depression (PPD) may have characteristic levels of neuroactive steroids, molecules derived from the hormone progesterone, in their blood during the third trimester of pregnancy, according to a new study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

30 Jan 2025

Cancer-fighting virus T-VEC helps shrink tough-to-treat skin tumors

Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) demonstrates efficacy in cutaneous BCC, enhancing resectability and altering immune cell composition with low adverse events.

30 Jan 2025

Leukocyte count predicts severity of COVID-19 symptoms in older women

Thanks to advances in treatment options, a COVID-19 diagnosis is no longer as scary as it once was, at least for most people.

29 Jan 2025

Study uncovers distinct blood protein signature in children with Long COVID

Distinct protein profiles linked to inflammation and angiogenesis found in children with Long COVID, paving the way for improved diagnostics and therapies.

28 Jan 2025

Practice-centered, flexible intervention may improve integration of behavioral health in primary care

Integrated behavioral health (IBH), which combines behavioral health and primary care, improves patient outcomes and experience.

27 Jan 2025

Triple therapy shows strong response in BRAF V600E mutant metastatic colorectal cancer

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) harboring BRAF V600E mutations benefitted from first-line treatment with the targeted therapies encorafenib and cetuximab plus a mFOLFOX6 chemotherapy regimen, according to results from the Phase III BREAKWATER trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

26 Jan 2025

Two-thirds of people with post-COVID-19 syndrome experience long-term effects

Two-thirds of people with post-COVID-19 syndrome have persistent, objective symptoms – including reduced physical exercise capacity and reduced cognitive test performances – for a year or more, with no major changes in symptom clusters during the second year of their illness, according to a new study published January 23rd in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Winfried Kern of Freiburg University, Germany, and colleagues.

23 Jan 2025

KTU develops adaptive rehabilitation system for personalized recovery

In today's healthcare environment, there is an increasing focus on improving the efficiency of rehabilitation processes, given the rising number of injuries and the need to return to active life more quickly.

22 Jan 2025

Long-covid patients are frustrated that federal research hasn’t found new treatments

Erica Hayes, 40, has not felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with covid.

22 Jan 2025

Research reveals emotional and work-life strain in infertility treatment patients

Infertility is a problem that affects between 8% and 12% of couples of reproductive age worldwide – for some of them, the problem interrupts a life project, which is the desire to have children and build a family.

21 Jan 2025

Telephone therapy alleviates fatigue and improves quality of life for breast cancer survivors

With medical advances, more than 169,000 people in the United States are living with metastatic breast cancer.

21 Jan 2025

CDC report reveals COPD as the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.

Chronic lower respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

21 Jan 2025

Study reveals high prevalence of Lyme disease bacteria in Northeast ticks

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick- also called a deer tick - is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria.

17 Jan 2025

COVID-19 dramatically raises the risk of developing ME/CFS

Study highlights a fourfold increase in ME/CFS risk among COVID-19 patients, with 89% of post-COVID ME/CFS cases overlapping with severe long COVID symptom clusters.

16 Jan 2025

Drug in breast cancer trials shows potential for treating blood cancers

Two new studies led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a possible way to block the progression of several forms of blood cancer using a drug already in clinical trials against breast cancer.

16 Jan 2025

Study reveals endometriosis as a major cause of hospitalization in Australia

University of Queensland researchers have conducted the first longitudinal study on the impact of endometriosis on Australia's healthcare system, finding the disease is a significant cause of hospitalisation.

15 Jan 2025

The impact of fall-risk medications on injuries in COPD patients

People with COPD experience more falls and related injuries requiring medical care when using common fall-risk increasing drugs, according to a new study. The study is published in the November 2024 issue of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal.

15 Jan 2025