Abemaciclib (Verzenio) with endocrine therapy (tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor) is now approved for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer at high risk for recurrence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on March 3. This priority approval expands the indication by […]
Stigma leads to discrimination and can affect all aspects of a person's life. Dr. Bruna Nucera talked with Mary Secco about various aspects of stigma, as well as the International Bureau for Epilepsy's resources for addressing epilepsy stigma in Africa. IBE plans to produce similar resources customized to other regions. We developed an advocate's toolkit […]
A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I brush their teeth before they see the dentist. Just little things like that to protect myself from being treated unfairly,” she told researchers. A 72-year-old in Los […]
The European Union has awarded a European Consortium €4.5 million for the ELR-Scar project to validate a novel hydrogel biomaterial that will prevent scar tissue from forming in the heart following a heart attack. Myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, happens as a result of ischemic heart disease (IHD). Europe has the highest rates of […]
Sexual minority families—where parental sexual orientation or gender identity is considered outside cultural, societal, or physiological norms—fare as well as, or better than, 'traditional' families with parents of the opposite sex, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health. Parental sexual orientation isn't an important […]
Researchers are calling for the extent of skin erythema to be considered as an outcome measure in patients who develop chronic cutaneous graft-vs-host disease (ccGVHD) after allogeneic stem cell transplants for various blood cancers. “There is value in collecting erythema serially over time as a continuous variable on a scale of 0%-100%” to identify high-risk […]
Britain’s broken NHS, like you’ve never seen before: Horrifying documentary captures final moments of man killed by delays, a girl who dislocated her leg being taken to hospital on a PICNIC table and a woman, 90, left to wait 4 hours on the icy ground Shocking footage taken undercover lays bare the brutal reality inside the […]
Justo al lado de la histórica Ruta 66, en el este de Nuevo México, un hospital de 10 camas ha brindado atención de emergencia durante décadas a un flujo constante de personas lesionadas en accidentes automovilísticos y accidentes de ganadería. También ha servido como una opción cercana al hogar para el paciente ocasional que pasa […]
Jimmy Carter estaba orgulloso de que Estados Unidos no hubiera iniciado ninguna guerra durante su mandato como presidente. Pero después de dejar el cargo, lanzó una guerra contra las llamadas enfermedades olvidadas, males de tierras lejanas que la mayoría de los estadounidenses nunca sufrirán y de las que tal vez ni siquiera hayan oído hablar. […]
Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of arrhythmia, affecting about 46.3 million people globally. Previous research is unclear about whether or not AFib is a direct risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia or whether observed increases in dementia are indirectly due to increased strokes from AFib. Researchers have found that people with newly-diagnosed […]
