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Small-volume blood sample tubes may reduce anemia and transfusions in intensive care
“Here’s an opportunity to move the needle on reducing anemia in hospitalized patients, where the benefit also doesn’t come at a cost.”
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ASCO details how to manage ongoing cancer drug shortage
“This guidance document aims to support clinicians, as they navigate the complexities of treatment planning amid the drug shortage.”
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Underdiagnosed: Iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy
IDA increases a patient’s risk of delivering preterm and developing postpartum depression and puts their infants at a risk for perinatal mortality...
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Avoid anti-HER2 cancer therapies during pregnancy
Exposure to anti-HER2 agents was associated with “severe specific adverse pregnancy and fetal or newborn outcomes compared with exposure to other...
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MRIs, MRI-guided biopsies detect prostate cancer affordably
There is “a growing consensus that the use of MRI and potential MRI-guided biopsy is cost effective.”
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Rx for resilience: Five prescriptions for physician burnout
“Every person should have a toolkit of the things that bring them out of the psychological and physical distress that dysregulates their nervous...
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Pancreatic cystic neoplasms rarely turn cancerous, study shows
Study is the first to report the proportion of pancreatic cancers that develop from cystic neoplasms.
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FDA OKs new agent to block chemotherapy-induced neutropenia
Efbemalenograstim has been approved by the FDA to combat infections in adults being treated for nonmyeloid cancers.
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FDA investigates secondary cancers from CAR T-cell therapies
The agency is evaluating the need for regulatory action on the links between CAR T-cell immunotherapies and secondary blood cancers.
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Long-term organ preservation in rectal cancer is possible
“Our results support the recommendation that patients with rectal cancer offered [watch-and-wait] after neoadjuvant therapy should have very close...
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Why don’t doctors feel like heroes anymore?
“None of us are invincible,” and it’s dangerous to forget that “the people behind the symbols are also human.”