Patients With Cancer Still Get Therapy at End of Life Terminal patients with cancer continue to get systemic therapy in the last weeks of life, despite concerns about such care’s cost and utility, new research shows. The rate of systemic anticancer therapy within 30 days of death across all cancer types remained the same — […]

In a recent study posted to medRxiv* preprint server, researchers characterized trends of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA levels in wastewater. Study: Identifying trends in SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater to infer changing COVID-19 incidence: Effect of sampling frequency. Image Credit: DedMityay/Shutterstock Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) relies on infectious disease marker levels in the […]

Some of the things you (or your clients) AREN’T doing … are so scary. Like really scary. 1. You NOT being on TikTok is scary. TikTok now has over a BILLION monthly active users. Ages 20-29 makeup 29.5%, ages 30-39 makeup 16.4%, ages 40-49 makeup 13.9%, and ages 50+ makeup 7.1%. Don’t tell us your […]

Y-mAbs Therapeutics has suffered a setback in its efforts to win US approval for I-omburtamab to treat a rare pediatric cancer. On October 28, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel found a lack of evidence to support the drug’s approval for pediatric neuroblastoma in patients with central nervous system (CNS)/leptomeningeal (LM) metastases. After […]

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, researchers in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom formulated recommendations for future pandemics using lessons learned from the testing programs implemented in the United Kingdom (UK) during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Study: A multistage mixed-methods evaluation of the UKHSA testing response during the […]

Most businesses out there are product-focused, ie they have a product to sell. This is how it works: Offer a service or create a product Find people to sell it to Make a lot of money Quit selling “offline” or quit their day job It sounds good (in theory). The problem is that this is […]

How long patients with allergic rhinitis adhere to sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) appears to vary, but further, more rigorous research is needed, results of a systematic literature review suggest. Dr Scott P Commins “This systematic review found that SLIT was well tolerated,” Scott P. Commins, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics in the Division […]

Pediatric musculoskeletal ultrasound (PedMSUS) has great potential in the evaluation of children with arthritis, and since 2012 several PedMSUS courses have been endorsed by EULAR – The European Alliance of Rheumatology Associations. But despite this, there has been no agreed educational procedure for the conduct, content and format of these courses. This is critical, since […]

The big season is almost upon us. Is your small business ready? It is harder and harder to compete with corporate websites with huge advertising budgets. When just lots of consumers think the term “holiday sales” is synonymous with Amazon and Walmart, it is too challenging to get your products in front of buyers’ eyes. […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters are being asked to decide whether the state should be the first in the nation to amend its constitution to explicitly declare that affordable health care is a fundamental human right. State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, a main sponsor of the legislation behind the ballot measure, said making health […]