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Prehospital plasma outperforms standard care
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- Will Pass
Providing thawed plasma on the way to the hospital helped reduce mortality for trauma patients.
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HIV guidelines: Update recommends immediate treatment, three-drug therapy
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- Will Pass
New IAS-USA HIV guidelines emphasize earlier treatment and initial three-drug antiretroviral therapy.
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Immunotherapies extend survival for melanoma patients with brain metastases
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- Will Pass
Patients with melanoma brain metastases receiving first-line checkpoint blockade immunotherapy had a 91% increase in 4-year survival.
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Rural cancer patients report faster care than urban counterparts
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- Will Pass
In contrast to previous studies, urban patients reported longer delays in care, scoring “Getting Care Quickly” 2.27 points lower than rural...
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Metastatic lung cancer: Pembrolizumab plus chemo prolongs survival
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- Will Pass
Overall survival at 12 months in NSCLC patients treated with pembrolizumab-combination therapy was 69.2%, compared with 49.4% in patients treated...
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Checkpoint inhibitors well tolerated by NSCLC patients with preexisting autoimmune disease
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- Will Pass
Flares during checkpoint inhibitor therapy were generally mild, and toxicity rates were only slightly increased in NSCLC patients with AID.