Latest Senior Health news from across the web.
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- The adjuvant treatment of RET fusion-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following potentially curative surgery or radiotherapy has a new standard of care, researchers reported here. In a phase III study...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Peptides have moved from bodybuilding forums into the cultural mainstream. Telehealth clinics advertise them for weight loss and recovery, often outside any FDA-approved indication. Podcasters describe their personal protocols...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Men with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC) and DNA repair alterations had significantly longer progression-free survival (PFS) with a targeted drug plus an androgen receptor pathway inhibitor...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- RASolute 302 trial results were hailed as a game-changing breakthrough in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. The phase III study showed that second-line daraxonrasib, an investigational oral RAS(ON) multi-selective...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Adding an investigational TROP2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) to first-line immunotherapy for PD-L1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) reduced the risk of disease progression and may have improved...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Functional endometrial recovery was not a sure thing for patients who underwent fertility-sparing treatment before endometrial cancer treatment, researchers from China reported. In the retrospective cohort study, patients who...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- I have spent 20 years working in out-of-network healthcare reimbursement. After reading the New York Times article "A $440,000 Breast Reduction? How Doctors Cash In on a Health Care Law," I felt the payer's use of the independent...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Combining two targeted therapies with standard-of-care chemotherapy extended progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with newly diagnosed B-cell lymphomas, according to data from the frontMIND trial. In the...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump on Friday gave his endorsement to a January study by HHS that calls for cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every American child. An executive order from Trump directs federal agencies to align...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Editor's Note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. Brayan Rayo Garzon was distraught...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Skipping axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for selected patients with locally advanced breast cancer did not adversely affect survival, findings from a randomized trial showed. Patients who omitted ALND after...
Read full article →