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Semaglutide Kidney Benefits Extend to Those Without Diabetes
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- Nancy A. Melville
The kidney benefits observed in patients who are at high risk of kidney disease but do not yet have diabetes or chronic kidney disease is...
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Outside the Guidelines: Prostate Cancer Screening Overused in Older Men
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Experts address potential harms of screening for prostate cancer in patients with low life expectancy.
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Tackling Lean Mass Loss When Weight Loss is Successful
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- Nancy A. Melville
Clinicians should consider the impact of lean mass loss, not just overall weight loss, when patients lose weight with GLP-1s.
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Kids and Anti-Obesity Medications: Real-World Challenges
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- Nancy A. Melville
Prescribing anti-obesity medications comes with challenges ranging from accessing and affording the medications...
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What Underlies Sex Differences in CKD Cardiovascular Risk?
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
It is important to recognize sex differences in sympathetic nervous activity when assessing cardiovascular risk in CKD.
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Genetic Signatures May Predict CAR T Responders
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Research data suggest that key genetic clues of patients with LBCL could show which are more — or less — likely to respond to axi-cel CAR T.
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Tiny Doses of Metabolically Armed CAR T Show Benefits
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- Nancy A. Melville
The IL-10-expressing Meta10-19 CAR T-cell therapy improved outcomes in B-ALL and DLBCL at doses 5% and lower of standard CAR T products.
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No Routine Cancer Screening Option? New MCED Tests May Help
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
CanScan, MERCURY, and OncoSeek can detect a range of cancers and recognize the tissue of origin with high accuracy.
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Can Sweeteners Improve Weight Maintenance, Overeating?
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Artificial sweeteners may help those trying to keep weight off and aid in reducing overeating, study finds.
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Managing CAR-T Neurotoxicity: EEG Bests the Rest
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- Nancy A. Melville
In managing the ICANS side effect, electroencephalogram is associated with greater therapeutic intervention versus MRI and lumbar puncture.
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Very Low-Energy Diet Safe, Acceptable for Adolescents
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
More research is needed to understand which patients are best suited for the diet.
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Ginger, Cinnamon, Cumin Improve Glycemic Control
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
A trio of Mediterranean herbs are linked to fasting glucose impact, finds a meta-analysis.
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Outside the Guidelines: Denosumab Overuse in Prostate Cancer
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
For patients with metastatic castration-sensitive disease the bone-modifying agents show no benefit in preventing skeletal-related events, are not...
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Obesity Affects More Than 1 Billion Around the World
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
The rate of obesity in adolescents and children increased by 4 times in the past 30 years.
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B-ALL: CAR-T Outperforms Novel Therapies
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Real-world patients with B-ALL who relapsed post transplant showed significantly better outcomes with CAR T-cell therapy versus novel alternative...