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Medicare Advantage plans shift their financial risk to doctors

Dr. Christopher Rao jumped out of his office chair. He'd just learned an elderly patient at high risk of falling was resisting his advice to go to an inpatient rehabilitation facility following a hip fracture.

8 Oct 2018

Damage to small nerves shown to be cause of chronic pain following knee surgeries

Patients frequently experience severe chronic pain following knee operations. Although the pain is thought to be due to damage to small nerves, it was hitherto impossible to demonstrate this by imaging.

8 Oct 2018

DNA of people with depression, trauma is biologically older than healthy individuals

DNA from people who suffer from major depression is biologically older than that of healthy people by on average 8 months, suggesting that they are biologically older than their corresponding calendar age.

8 Oct 2018

FDA and EMA accept Novartis' regulatory application for siponimod to treat SPMS in adults

Novartis today announced that both the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency have accepted the company's New Drug Application and Marketing Authorization Application respectively, for investigational oral, once-daily siponimod (BAF312) for the treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in adults.

8 Oct 2018

Immunotherapy effective for individuals with inherited form of skin cancer

Individuals with an inherited form of skin cancer often have a poor prognosis. The type of immunotherapy that was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is, however, particularly effective in this patient group, research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows. The study is published in the Journal of Medical Genetics.

8 Oct 2018

Scientists discover new molecular pathway that controls colorectal cancer development

Scientists from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at the National University of Singapore have discovered a new molecular pathway that controls colorectal cancer development, and their exciting findings open new therapeutic opportunities.

8 Oct 2018

CPEN honors Penn Medicine's OncoLink with 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award

The Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) honored the Patient Education Team from Penn Medicine's OncoLink with the 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award.

8 Oct 2018

Postmenopausal women who lost weight had lower risk of developing invasive breast cancer

In a study of postmenopausal women, participants who lost weight had a lower risk of developing invasive breast cancer than those who maintained or gained weight. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings suggest that weight loss may help lower postmenopausal women's breast cancer risk.

8 Oct 2018

New blood test may detect early-stage lung cancer when surgical intervention is not possible

Non-small-cell lung carcinoma is often fatal because most cases are not diagnosed until they are so advanced that surgical intervention is no longer possible. To improve outcomes researchers are developing a blood test to detect lung cancer earlier in the disease.

8 Oct 2018

Study: Pregnant women with mental health history recognize babies' expressions differently

A pilot study has found that pregnant women who have suffered from depression or bipolar disorder (i.e. both mania and depression) recognize babies' faces and how babies laugh or cry, differently to healthy controls.

8 Oct 2018

Diet and weight may influence response to bipolar disorder treatment, shows study

Data from a clinical trial has shown that how people respond to treatment for Bipolar Disorder may be influenced by their weight and the overall quality of their diet, including whether they are eating a diet high in foods thought to contribute to general inflammation.

8 Oct 2018

Previous Endologix AFX Safety Notice classified by FDA as Class I recall

Endologix Inc., a developer and marketer of innovative treatments for aortic disorders, announced today that it has received notice that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has classified a voluntary recall action that Endologix took in July of this year as a Class I recall.

8 Oct 2018

Nonfatal injuries in the U.S. cost over $1.8 trillion in 2013

A new analysis by researchers from Brown University and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation has found that nonfatal injuries in the U.S. in the year 2013 cost more than $1.8 trillion.

8 Oct 2018

New study could change the way doctors treat a common STD

A new study led by an infectious disease epidemiologist at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine could change the way doctors treat a common sexually transmitted disease.

7 Oct 2018

T-CALM Phase 2 clinical study results offer hope for essential tremor patients

Cavion, Inc., a leading clinical stage biotechnology company committed to developing novel therapeutics for people with neurological diseases, today announced promising results of the T-CALM Phase 2 clinical trial of its first-in-class T-type calcium channel modulator CX-8998 in essential tremor.

7 Oct 2018

Leadiant Biosciences announces FDA approval of Revcovi for treating pediatric, adult ADA-SCID patients

Leadiant Biosciences, Inc. today announced that the Food and Drug Administration has granted approval to Revcovi (elapegademase-lvlr) injection in the U.S. Revcovi is a new enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of adenosine deaminase severe combined immune deficiency in pediatric and adult patients.

7 Oct 2018

New update on CareMore's innovative program to transform delivery of care for Medicaid consumers

CareMore Health announced today that a new article "Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care" has been published in Harvard Business Review. The outcomes reported in the article provide the first update on CareMore's innovative program designed to transform the delivery of care for Medicaid consumers.

7 Oct 2018

Medical News

Medicare Advantage plans shift their financial risk to doctors

Damage to small nerves shown to be cause of chronic pain following knee surgeries

DNA of people with depression, trauma is biologically older than healthy individuals

FDA and EMA accept Novartis' regulatory application for siponimod to treat SPMS in adults

Immunotherapy effective for individuals with inherited form of skin cancer

Scientists discover new molecular pathway that controls colorectal cancer development

CPEN honors Penn Medicine's OncoLink with 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award

Postmenopausal women who lost weight had lower risk of developing invasive breast cancer

New blood test may detect early-stage lung cancer when surgical intervention is not possible

Study: Pregnant women with mental health history recognize babies' expressions differently

Diet and weight may influence response to bipolar disorder treatment, shows study

Previous Endologix AFX Safety Notice classified by FDA as Class I recall

Nonfatal injuries in the U.S. cost over $1.8 trillion in 2013

New study could change the way doctors treat a common STD

T-CALM Phase 2 clinical study results offer hope for essential tremor patients

Leadiant Biosciences announces FDA approval of Revcovi for treating pediatric, adult ADA-SCID patients

New update on CareMore's innovative program to transform delivery of care for Medicaid consumers

Loyola Medicine neurologist honored for showing exceptional support to Neurocritical Care Society

Online and in-person care found to be equally effective at improving psoriasis symptoms

Researchers streamline design of lab-on-a-chip devices to observe their inner workings

How real-time off-gas analysis improves fermentation process control

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