SAN ANTONIO —Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd, Enhertu) has yielded significant and clinically meaningful improvements in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival for patients with advanced HER2+ breast cancer when used as second-line and in later lines of therapy, new data confirm. However, the reports also highlighted the potential problem of interstitial lung disease (ILD) as an […]

Ever since becoming a mom, Kourtney Kardashian has been passionate about putting her three children — Mason, Penelope, and Reign, whom she shares with ex-boyfriend Scott Disick — before all else. Giving birth to the first member of the next generation of Kardashians in 2009, Kourtney has unapologetically blazed her own trail as a mother, […]

Opioids are commonly prescribed to patients that are discharged after a total knee and hip arthroplasty. Patients are typically given larger prescriptions of opioids that can result in an excess of the medication in their home after recovery is over. In the research study "Association Between Initial Prescription Size and Likelihood of Opioid Refill After […]

COVID-19 and its latest Omicron strains continue to cause infections across the country as well as globally. Serology (blood) and molecular tests are the two most commonly used methods for rapid COVID-19 testing. Because COVID-19 tests use different mechanisms, they vary significantly. Molecular tests measure the presence of viral SARS-CoV-2 RNA while serology tests detect […]

Fitness video games are a fast-growing market in the world of health and wellbeing. Playing games, some experts say, can make exercise more effective and keep us motivated by ‘gamifying’ our workouts. Essentially, what this means is that you get to have fun while keeping fit instead of feeling like it’s a bit of a […]

In March 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, use of HIV prevention and care services dropped but soon bounced back to prepandemic levels, report researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The numbers of HIV tests and of people prescribed preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) dropped in spring 2020, then rose steadily […]

A healthier lifestyle mitigated the impact of genetic factors on the risk of thyroid cancer, in a study based on data from more than 260,000 individuals. Thyroid cancer has increased globally in recent years and ranks 9th among 36 cancers worldwide, at a considerable cost to health care systems, wrote Xiuming Feng of Guangxi Medical […]

Not a week goes by when I don’t see someone in my clinic complaining of a strange and constant phantom sound in one of their ears, or in both ears. The noise is loud, distracting and scary—and it doesn’t go away. The kind of sound varies from patient to patient: buzzing, blowing, hissing, ringing, roaring, […]

Covid vaccines have averted 3MILLION deaths in America, report finds More than 120 million Covid infections were prevented by the shots, it found The report likely underestimates the full impact of vaccines, the researchers said Two years ago tomorrow the first person in the US got the shot outside a trial  Covid vaccines have averted […]

Extremely hot and extremely cold temperatures were associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular mortality in an analysis of data from countries around the world. “Many environmental exposures are set to be amplified by climate change,” Barrak Alahmad, MD, MPH, PhD, a research fellow at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health at […]