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CDC Director signs decision memo allowing Novavax monovalent COVID-19 boosters for adults

Today, CDC's Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo allowing Novavax monovalent COVID-19 boosters for adults.

24 Oct 2022

Meeting with a medical physicist reduces patients' radiation treatment-related stress

Meeting with a medical physicist who can explain how radiation therapy is planned and delivered reduces patient anxiety and increases patient satisfaction throughout the treatment process, according to a new study published today in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics.

24 Oct 2022

AI model predicts the likelihood of unplanned hospitalization during radiation treatments for cancer

An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by researchers can predict the likelihood that a patient may have an unplanned hospitalization during their radiation treatments for cancer.

24 Oct 2022

Combination of radiation and systemic therapy can prolong survival for advanced liver cancer patients

Adding radiation therapy to systemic therapy for patients with advanced liver cancer can extend overall survival and delay tumor progression without compromising patients' quality of life, a randomized phase III clinical trial shows.

24 Oct 2022

Clinical trial confirms the safety, efficacy of shortened radiation therapy for high-risk prostate cancer patients

A new randomized study confirms that men with high-risk prostate cancer can be treated with five versus eight weeks of radiation therapy.

24 Oct 2022

FLASH radiotherapy may hold promise as a potential treatment for tough-to-kill tumors

FLASH radiation treatment – which delivers therapeutic doses of radiation in a fraction of a second – may hold promise as a potential treatment for tough-to-kill tumors, a first-in-human study in a small number of people with bone cancer suggests.

24 Oct 2022

Treating high-risk, asymptomatic bone metastases with radiation may reduce pain, extend survival

Treating high-risk, asymptomatic bone metastases with radiation may reduce painful complications and hospitalizations and possibly extend overall survival in people whose cancer has spread to multiple sites, a phase II clinical trial suggests.

24 Oct 2022

Sexual side effects of cancer treatment discussed less frequently with female patients

A new study finds that sexual side effects of cancer treatment are discussed far less frequently with female patients than with male patients, even when the treatment directly affects sex organs.

24 Oct 2022

Green eyeglasses may help reduce the need for opioids to manage severe pain in fibromyalgia patients

Wearing special green eyeglasses for several hours a day reduces pain-related anxiety and may help decrease the need for opioids to manage severe pain in fibromyalgia patients and possibly others who experience chronic pain, according to a study being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2022 annual meeting.

24 Oct 2022

Emergence delirium does not affect children's behavior three months after surgery

Emergence delirium - a confused state during recovery from anesthesia that may include disorientation, hallucination, restlessness and purposeless hyperactivity - does not affect a child's behavior three months after surgery, according to research being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022 annual meeting.

24 Oct 2022

Study reports disparities in the use of regional anesthesia techniques

Women, minorities and patients enrolled in Medicaid are less likely to receive regional anesthesia techniques that consistently improve outcomes after surgery, suggests research being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022 annual meeting.

24 Oct 2022

Drivers in decline: A shortage of volunteers complicates access to care in rural America

Several times a month, Jim Maybach drives 5 miles from his house in Hay Creek, Minnesota, toward the Mississippi River.

24 Oct 2022

New study highlights how pain management practices are changing after surgery

Although there has been no decrease in the number of opioid prescriptions seniors receive after surgery, the doses of those prescriptions are lower, according to a study of more than a quarter million Canadian patients being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2022 annual meeting.

24 Oct 2022

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CDC Director signs decision memo allowing Novavax monovalent COVID-19 boosters for adults

Meeting with a medical physicist reduces patients' radiation treatment-related stress

AI model predicts the likelihood of unplanned hospitalization during radiation treatments for cancer

Combination of radiation and systemic therapy can prolong survival for advanced liver cancer patients

Clinical trial confirms the safety, efficacy of shortened radiation therapy for high-risk prostate cancer patients

FLASH radiotherapy may hold promise as a potential treatment for tough-to-kill tumors

Treating high-risk, asymptomatic bone metastases with radiation may reduce pain, extend survival

Sexual side effects of cancer treatment discussed less frequently with female patients

Green eyeglasses may help reduce the need for opioids to manage severe pain in fibromyalgia patients

Emergence delirium does not affect children's behavior three months after surgery

Study reports disparities in the use of regional anesthesia techniques

Drivers in decline: A shortage of volunteers complicates access to care in rural America

New study highlights how pain management practices are changing after surgery

Regular statin use may reduce the risk of death and severity of COVID-19

Analysis finds higher level of opioid abuse among sexual minorities compared to heterosexuals

ERAS programs ease the effects of surgery and fast-track patient recovery

Collaborative research paves a new way to better health for patients with enlarged hearts

Risk of viral spillover found to increase with a warming climate in High Arctic lake sediments

Dog ownership during infancy might attenuate the risk of persistent wheezing

What is the efficacy of mulberry component Kuwanon C against COVID-19?

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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