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06 Nov Treatment Delays Linked To High Mortality for Head and Neck Cancer
The method of head and neck cancer care delivery is potentially modifiable through targeted interventions and thus represents an important target that can be manipulated to improve survival for head and neck cancer patients.
05 Nov Real-World Dosing of RAASi are Associated With Risk of Adverse Events in CKD
Our study highlights the unmet need in CKD patients and the importance to keep them on guideline-recommended RAASi therapies to optimize patient outcomes.
03 Nov Crohn’s Disease: Single Capsule Antibiotic Combined Demonstrates Clinical Benefit
It demonstrates the consistency of a meaningful benefit to Crohn’s patients on top of and across the major standard of care treatments
31 Oct FDA Approves Dupixent: Only Self-Administered Biologic for Moderate-to-Severe Asthma
In the trials, Dupixent reduced severe asthma exacerbations, improved lung function, reduced oral corticosteroid use and improved measures of health-related quality of life.
29 Oct New Drug Class Offers Hope for Calcified Blood Vessels
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr Mattias Ivarsson PhD CEO, Inositec, co-author of data MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: When control of factors in the blood that regulate mineral balance in the body is lost, the subsequent build-up of calcium deposits in the arterial walls and cardiac valves...
21 Oct Improved Progression-Free Survival in Early Mutated NSC Lung Cancer with Erlotinib
This randomized clinical trial first supplied the evidences in multiple parameters that erlotinib used before surgery could improve survival with free relapse.
06 Oct New Antibiotic Combination IMI/REL Can Treat Resistant Infection With Less Kidney Toxicity
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MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Michelle Hoffman Brown Associate Principal Scientist Merck MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the kidney risks of using colistin to treat carbapenem-resistant bacterial infections? Response: Gram-negative pathogens are responsible for half of all healthcare-associated infections and their ability to resist traditional antibiotics makes them...
02 Oct Most Patients With Subclinical Hypothyroidism May Not Require Thyroid Medication
LEVOTHYROXINE IS THE MOST PRESCRIBED DRUG FROM 2014 ONWARDS IN THE US.
20 Sep Lowering Triglycerides and Cholesterol Could Reduce Heart Disease and Diabetes Risk
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Luca A. Lotta, MD, PhD Senior Clinical Investigator MRC Epidemiology Unit University of Cambridge MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Drugs that enhance the breakdown of circulating triglycerides by activating lipoprotein lipase (LPL) are in pre-clinical or early-clinical development. It...
20 Sep USPSTF: Behavior-Based Weight Loss Interventions Associated with Weight Loss and Lower Risk of Diabetes
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Chyke Doubeni, M.D., M.P.H. Harrison McCrea Dickson, M.D. and Clifford C. Baker, M.D. Presidential Professor Associate Professor of Epidemiology Senior scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response:...
19 Sep Experimental Cap Regrows Hair Using Photostimulation
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Han Eol Lee Ph.D. Flexible and Nanobio Device Lab. Department of Materials Science and Engineering KAIST MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Numerous people around the world have suffered from alopecia, which leads to aesthetic issues, low self-esteem, and social anxiety. With the population expansion...
17 Sep Artificial Intelligence Can Reliably Diagnosis Specific Types of Lung Cancer
This does not mean that doctor will be replaced any time soon, but when used in clinical practice it can - at the very least - help pathologists reduce human error.
17 Sep More Than 2 Million High School Students Have Used Marijuana in an E-Cigarette
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Katrina Trivers, PhD, MSP Lead author and lead epidemiologist Office on Smoking and Health CDC MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Although we’ve seen considerable declines in the use of regular cigarettes among U.S. youth over the past several decades, the tobacco product landscape...
15 Sep Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Reduce Anxiety
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Yutaka MATSUOKA, MD, PhD Division Chief of Health Care Research, Behavioral Sciences and Survivorship Research Group, Center for Public Health Sciences, National Cancer Center Japan MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Anxiety is the most commonly experienced psychiatric symptom....
13 Sep Patient-Reported Symptom Relief Following Medical Cannabis Consumption
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Jacob M. Vigil, PhD Department of Psychology University of New Mexico MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: For the past several years we have been using observational research designs as a means to overcome some of the logistical and legal barriers for conducting...
12 Sep First Trial Compares Treatment Options For Serious Infections Caused by ESBL-Producers
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Patrick Harris FRACP Staff Specialist Microbiology | Pathology Queensland | Health Support Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research (Paterson Group MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Increasingly, common bacterial pathogens such as E. coli or Klebsiella have acquired genes known as extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs), which...
12 Sep Alzheimer’s Disease: Peptide Found in Sea Anemones May Prevent Neuron Destruction
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Elena Leychenko is a senior research associate at PIBOC (G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry which is the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), assistant professor, and lecturer at the chair of bioorganic chemistry and biotechnology of the School of Natural Sciences Far...
05 Sep Serial Liquid Biopsies May Predict Response to Colon Cancer Treatment
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. Andrea Sottoriva, PhD Centre for Evolution and Cancer, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Would you briefly explain what is meant by a liquid biopsy? Response: Cetuximab is a targeted treatment available for metastatic colorectal cancer...
23 Aug Subcutaneous Injection of Islet Cells May One Day Control Type I Diabetes
MedicalResearch.com Interview with Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a major health problem affecting over 1.25 children and adults in the United States alone. It also affects...
21 Aug Digitization of Pathology Specimens Allows for Improved Workflow and Incorporation of Advanced Techniques
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:| Dr. Wendy L. Frankel, MD. Kurtz Chair and Distinguished Professor and Dr. Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, MBA, Associate Professor Wexner Medical Center The Ohio State University MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this work? How does digital pathology differ from traditional H/E specimens? Is there is different processing method? Difference in...
18 Aug Brain Imaging Reveals How Prolonged Intermittent Cannabis Can Induce Memory Deficits
Considering the therapeutic use of cannabinoids, it is important to mention that any medicine has beneficial and negative-side effects.
15 Aug Crohn’s Disease: Positive Findings from Phase III Study of Antibiotic Combination
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Mr. Gilead Raday, MPhil, MSc Chief Operating Officer RedHill Biopharma Ltd MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Would you briefly explain what is meant by Crohn’s disease? How common is it and whom does it affect? Response: Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory...
02 Aug Heart Failure Medications Underutilized in Medical Practice
In routine clinical care and outpatient clinical practices across the United States there is dramatic under dosing of guideline-directed medical therapy for heart failure.
31 Jul Rare Inflammatory Muscle Inflammation Increased With Statin Exposure
We do not want the results of this study to undermine the benefits of statin use for reduction of primary and secondary cardiovascular risk. Statins are generally well tolerated by patients.
30 Jul COPD: Vaporized Cannabis Did Not Reduce Breathlessness or Improve Exercise Capacity
Larger randomized clinical trials with more participants are needed to draw definitive conclusions regarding the effects of vaporized cannabis on airway function, exertional breathlessness and exercise capacity in patients with COPD.
27 Jul Plasma Component Investigated To Reverse Age-Related Cognitive Disorders
The Alzheimer’s field has focused primarily on therapeutics targeting the removal of A-beta and Tau, but new approaches are required as preclinical treatment of disease pathophysiology has not translated to improved clinical outcomes.
24 Jul Ultra-Early Deterioration Predicts Poor Outcome in Stroke
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Kristina Shkirkova Doctoral Student in Neuroscience Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Stroke is the second leading cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability worldwide. Stroke onset is sudden with symptoms...
21 Jul Non-Invasive Liquid Biopsy Can Detect Deep Seated Infections
In this study, this plasma test was able to detect fungi from deep-seated infections.